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> Last fall, at the behest of the tech companies, a federal court struck down a California law meant to prevent social media platforms from profiling children.
by ChrisLTD 3y ago
> Last fall, at the behest of the tech companies, a federal court struck down a California law meant to prevent social media platforms from profiling children. It did so by ruling that collecting data from children is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment.
I had no idea that's the reason the California law was struck down. The idea that collecting data is speech seems dangerous.
- gruez 3y agoThere hasn't even been a ruling on that case yet. There was an injunction, but characterizing that as "struck down" is misleading. Also, if you read the original complaint[1], there's far more to the case than just "collecting data from children is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment". [1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.406140/gov.uscourts.cand.406140.1.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...