California is weighing a first-in-the-nation bill that would allow civil lawsuits against social media companies knowingly addicting kids.
Sacramento is preparing for a showdown over how far the state should go in regulating social media companies that many blame for contributing to a nationalAt the center of the controversy is a first-in-the-nation bill co-authored by Republican Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham of San Luis Obispo and Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks of Oakland that, in its original form, would have allowed California parents to sue large social media companies for harms caused by addicting kids to their...
Cunningham told me Wednesday that he doesn’t feel the proposal, which he described as “the most important bill I’ve ever worked on,” has been watered down. Dylan Hoffman, TechNet’s executive director for California, told me Wednesday that the group plans “to pursue every legislative avenue to try to stop the bill.”
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