Opinion
The Middle Seat
Tech companies have asked a federal judge in Manhattan to stop New York from requiring social media warning labels, and their lawsuit deserves a hearing on the merits. On Friday, the trade group NetChoice sued New York’s attorney general, arguing that the state’s SB 4505 forces companies such as Meta, TikTok and YouTube to deliver a state-sponsored message. The law is set to take effect Jan. 1 and requires certain platforms to show a label that begins, “The Surgeon General has warned …”, according to Bloomberg Law.
The sensible response is neither to cheer the label nor to scrap it. It is to ask what the evidence supports and whether this particular label is the right way to deliver it.
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