Parental Consent in the Smartphone Age
Sooner or later the Supreme Court will no doubt want to settle, in substantive fashion, the many questions that are now being raised about how governments may regulate internet use by minors, consistent with the First Amendment. States won’t always get the balance right, and perhaps some of the laws they pass will prove easy to evade, which critics say has been the experience in Australia under its new age law for social media.
How will it go in Texas and Ohio? Who knows. Yet many frustrated and alarmed American parents are probably gratified that at least their leaders are finally trying something.
