The Latest Breaking News from NetChoice

Bills signed by Kathy Hochul lets parents restrict children from suggested posts and adds limits on use of minors’ data

New York's governor has signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive

Nine states are hashing out bills to protect minors online. Tech companies are fighting the laws with everything they’ve got

Even as they attack the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation," Missouri and Louisiana defend legal restrictions on content moderation.

A striking characteristic of last month's oral arguments in the content-moderation cases was the uncertainty about facts. In Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, it was really unclear what the effect of the laws would be in practice. Which businesses and business models would be affected, and how—all of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moLCz7C6_gQ This episode is about the Netchoice cases, and was recorded right after the oral arguments. You can watch on YouTube, or subscribe on any podcast platform. It's put together by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where I'll be starting as the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow in May.

The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.

Supreme Court arguments about two social media laws highlight a dangerous conflation of state and private action.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to recognize that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.