(The Center Square) – Georgia is the latest state facing a legal challenge over a law that requires social media companies to verify a user’s age.
Lawmakers said Senate Bill 351, signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp in 2024, is designed to protect minors from cyberbullying and bad online actors.
“The health and safety of our children should always be a parent’s number one priority,” Lt. Governor Burt Jones said in a statement after the bill’s signing. “I am proud to have prioritized this legislation to help protect our children online and combat the very serious epidemic of cyberbullying which plagues this country.”
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But the bill could have the opposite effect from lawmakers’ intention of protecting minors and their families, said Paul Taske, NetChoice Associate
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