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Ohio Family Group Celebrates Ruling on Social Media Age Verification Law

The Center for Christian Virtue is celebrating last week’s decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allows an Ohio law on age verification and parental consent for those under 16 using social media to go into effect.

Ohio’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act, signed into law in 2023, was supposed to go into effect in January 2024, until NetChoice, an association of social media sites, challenged the law in court. The group claimed the law presented an unconstitutional restriction on free speech and was unconstitutionally vague.

Although the law was blocked in the 2024 ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley, the federal appeals court last week in a 2-1 decision directed Marbley to vacate his ruling after ruling that “NetChoice has failed to establish that the Act is facially unconstitutional.”

“[The parental consent requirement] constitutes a marginal burden that precisely targets the multi-faceted problem that Ohio has identified: Children’s unsupervised........

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