Appeals Court Judges Question California Law Designed to Protect Children Online

A federal appeals court seemed deeply skeptical of the constitutionality of a watershed California law that aims to expand safeguards for children online, probably foreshadowing another major defeat for state efforts to tackle the issue. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco heard arguments over a tech industry challenge to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC), a bipartisan law passed in 2022.