Mississippi urges court to uphold restrictions on children’s access to social media

Mississippi Asks Supreme Court to Allow Social Media Restrictions for Minors

Mississippi asked the Supreme Court on July 30 to allow it to continue enforcing a law restricting minors’ access to social media platforms. The new filing by Lynn Fitch, Mississippi’s attorney general, argues that House Bill 1126 is constitutional. The statute requires minors to obtain parental consent to use the websites. It also requires platforms to verify users’ ages and imposes fines for noncompliance. The emergency application was dockete…

Mississippi urges court to uphold restrictions on children’s access to social media

Mississippi on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place restrictions on access by young people to major social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. The state’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, told the justices that although the restrictions had been in effect for other social media sites for over a year, the tech industry group challenging the restrictions “has not identified anyone with a complaint about accessing any pl…

Does banning children from social media go too far?

The decision to restrict access to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and other sites ignores a truism of life: each generation must navigate the world as it is.