Tech advocates say restricting personal recommendations will harm teens' speech rights
( September 15, 2026, 20:44 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wikimedia Foundation urged a US appeals court to reverse and enjoin California's Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act because it intrudes on users’ and online services’ First Amendment rights without being narrowly tailored to address the state’s interest in protecting young people from compulsively using social media. They argued that prohibiting teen users from using the same “speech-enhancing” tools every other speaker online has at their disposal absent parental consent is “severely over-inclusive.”See attached file. ...
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