Digital rights watchdogs are urging a federal appellate court to preserve a block on a new Colorado law mandating cigarette-style warnings for social media.
The warning-label law "would compel a message that is neither factual nor uncontroversial," organizations including the Center for Democracy & Technology, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and LGBT Technology Institute argue in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Friday with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Colorado's Healthier Social Media Use by Youth Act (HB24-1136), which had been slated to take effect in January, requires social platforms to either provide minors with information about social media engagement that helps them "understand the impact of social media on the developing brain and the mental and physical health of youth users," or send pop-up warnings every 30 minutes to minors who use the platforms for more than one hour a day (or between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.).
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