NetChoice LLC, a trade group representing major internet providers, filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Virginia’s new law imposing parental-consent and age-verification requirements on social-media platforms.
The lawsuit comes five months after the US Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify user age, and three months after the high court allowed Mississippi to enforce a law imposing age-verification requirements on social-media sites while a NetChoice lawsuit challenging that law proceeds.
Social-media platforms Bluesky and Nextdoor Inc. announced shortly after that ruling that they would begin blocking all IP addresses located within Mississippi as a result of the ...