California’s “Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act” is Destined to Fail—For Good Reason

Recently, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have introduced troubling legislation focused on how young people interact with social media platforms. While well-intentioned, these bills are overbroad, and often require platforms to collect more information on users, or they force sites to make impossible decisions about what content is benign and what content is dangerous. Last week, California Assembly Members Buffy Wicks (D-15) and Jordan Cunningham (R-35) also threw their hats in the ring with two problematic …

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