Ben Sperry on the Constitutionality of KOSA
ICLE Senior Scholar Ben Sperry was quoted by Law360 about the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ Bonta decision and what it could mean for children’s online safety legislation. You can read the full piece here.
Ben Sperry, a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, wrote in a post on the scholarly blog Truth on the Market agreed that the Ninth Circuit ruling was likely to ripple beyond California, noting that it wouldn’t be surprising if the duty-of-care provisions in the Senate-passed version of KOSA were similarly deemed unconstitutional.
“To butcher a Winston Churchill quote: It’s not yet clear if this is the beginning of the end, or just the end of the beginning, for children’s online-safety bills,” he said.