Court Blocks Arkansas Social Media Law For Minors

The Associated Press reports:

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction.

U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted a preliminary injunction that NetChoice — a tech industry trade group whose members include TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as Twitter — had requested against the law. The measure, which Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law in April, was set to take effect Friday.

Arkansas’ law is similar to a first-in-the-nation restriction signed into law earlier this year in Utah. That law is not set to take effect until March 2024.

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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction. https://t.co/XZb32lWnWw

— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) September 1, 2023

Arkansas was right to give parents the power to protect their kids online. I’m confident that safety measures for children on social media will become law.https://t.co/gvkl1cYkHY

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) September 1, 2023