Don’t Cheer Too Hard for the Facebook Verdicts

I am alarmed by the negative influence of smartphones and social media on children. All of us should be.

I am also worried that in our zeal to protect children from those negative influences that we will violate the Constitution and undermine free speech.

And that’s where things get tricky.

Last week, juries in two different states delivered multimillion dollar verdicts against Big Tech. A New Mexico jury handed down a $375 million verdict in a case brought by the state’s attorney general against Meta for enabling........

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