By Jonathan Stempel
March 14, 2025 – 7:27 AM PDT
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(Reuters) – A federal judge said California cannot enforce a state law meant to shield children from online content that could harm them mentally or physically.
U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled on Thursday that the trade group NetChoice deserved a preliminary injunction because it was likely to show the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act violated its members’ free speech rights under the Constitution’s First Amendment.
NetChoice said the law would turn its 39 members including Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Google (GOOGL.O), Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms (META.O), Netflix (NFLX.O) and Elon Musk’s X into state-deputized…
