ANALYSIS: Ups and Downs for Child Online Privacy Patchwork YTD

In mid-August, the US Supreme Court declined to temporarily bar Mississippi from enforcing its online age-verification law. Mississippi may now enforce the twice-blocked law against NetChoice, a trade association representing Big Tech, while a First Amendment challenge to the law proceeds in a lower court.

Mississippi’s struggle is emblematic of the troubles other states face with regard to their laws governing age verification and social media: As the number of laws has grown, so too have the challenges. Yet instead of backing down in the face of the challenges, many of these states amend their laws to find a ...