A preliminary court order blocking enforcement of Arkansas’ online age-verification law should be made permanent, a tech-industry group challenging the law told a federal court.
The state’s recently enacted requirement that social media platforms implement online age-verification for those seeking to open accounts is blatantly unconstitutional and impermissibly burdens a “mind-boggling” amount of protected activity under the First Amendment, according to a motion for summary judgment filed Tuesday by NetChoice LLC in the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Because the defects in law are so glaring, the NetChoice challenge is ripe for determination without further factual …
