Twenty-Nine Attorneys General Back Virginia Law Limiting Social Media Use
A Florida-led state coalition opposes the tech industry’s bid to block a Virginia law requiring platforms to prohibit teens under 16 from accessing social media for more than one hour a day without parental consent.
A Florida-led coalition of states is opposing the tech industry’s attempt to block a Virginia law requiring social platforms to verify users’ ages and prohibit teens under 16 from accessing social media for more than one hour a day without parental consent.
The law “is a reasonable, constitutionally valid response to the harm that platforms are causing children,” attorneys general from Florida, 27 other states and the District of Columbia argue in a proposed friend-of-the-court brief filed with U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria.
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