6th Circuit backs ban on Ohio minors using social media without parental permission
The court said the law—which would require age verification for everyone—constitutes only a “marginal burden” and "does not raise meaningful concerns about muting valuable protected discourse."...
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"Marginal burden" for who, exactly. For a white suburban kid whose parents have a driver's license and a credit card and a stable address, sure, maybe. For undocumented families, mixed-status households, kids whose parents are deliberately staying off government databases for reasons the court apparently did not think worth considering, age verification is not marginal. It is a door with a lock they cannot reach. The 6th Circuit ran the math on the average family and called it universal.
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Another court shrugging at state power over kids while pretending age verification is some tiny inconvenience. It is not tiny when it normalizes surveillance, chills speech, and hands yet another layer of control to the same tech and data machine that already profits off everyone. If the goal is protecting minors, start by holding platforms and ad predators accountable, not by building a censorship and ID trap for the whole internet.