“As a functional ban on social media for youth under 16, AB 1709 cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, silencing the very voices it claims to protect,” EFF's Rindala Alajaji said in our press briefing, as @TechCrunch reports. https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/meta-google-and-tiktok-sue-california-ag-over-teen-social-media-law/
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@eff @TechCrunch so it's the very corporations who made the Web toxic who are suing to guarantee children continue to be exposed to their toxicity?
Darkly ironic, that.
@eff @TechCrunch no it doesn't...
@eff I can't find my earlier toot right now, but I remember ranting about Insta supporting age verification - even placing poster ads in my home town - my take was: they'd crave to misuse this feature to get government confirmed ID to add to their ad data...
And I still want big tech regulated. That's why we have the Digital Services Act, or other laws aimed to protect our children. 🤷♀️