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NetChoice decision is already influencing how courts consider social media laws

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It’s only been a couple of weeks since the Supreme Court issued its opinion on a pair of social media cases this term, but it’s already making a splash in arguments over other tech laws being challenged by the industry.

Lawyers and judges for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California repeatedly referenced the Supreme Court’s opinion in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton during oral arguments in two different cases on Wednesday. The cases before the Ninth Circuit, NetChoice v. Bonta and X v. Bonta, concern two different California laws regarding kids online safety and tech company disclosures (Rob Bonta is California’s attorney general, charged with enforcing the laws).

The arguments gave an early look into how the SCOTUS…

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