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No, Conscripting The App Stores Doesn’t Solve The Problems With Age Verification
Lawmakers show no sign of slowing down with laws to limit minors’ use of social media. State and federal legislation mandating that sites verify users’ age and adjust their social media experiences…
And even if the laws are tailored or interpreted to merely allow age estimation, the most widely available commercial technologies to accomplish this would still force every app store customer to submit to an intrusive—and, for younger adults, error-prone —biometric scan. In general, laws that cause this sort of “collateral censorship” of otherwise-protected speech have failed First Amendment scrutiny in the courts, with California’s Age Appropriate Design appearing destined to fall for just such an infringement. Plus, it runs into similar under-inclusivity constitutional issues as past laws that were found unconstitutional, in that it seeks to limit access to violent content on apps, but not on websites, in movies, or in video games.
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