Court Ruling Undermines Big Tech’s War on Kids Online Protections

The Kids Code Coalition released the following statement regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ new ruling on the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which offers a legal path forward for Kids Code legislation across the country:

“This ruling is encouraging news for Kids Code bills across the country because it affirms that their core safety-by-design and privacy-by-default principles are appropriate, constitutional functions of government. We continue to believe that strong accountability mechanisms must accompany these reforms, and we will keep working with states and stakeholders that seek to develop effective, legally-sound mechanisms to hold Big Tech companies accountable for protecting kids on their platforms. Moving forward, we urge the tech industry lobby and its NetChoice Litigation Center to cease their obstructionist campaign, drop the lawsuits and instead start working with lawmakers and advocates to implement the Maryland Kids Code effectively and strengthen proposed Kids Code legislation across the country.”