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Ohio Federal Judge Pauses Social Media Law Enforcing Parental Consent for Kids’ Accounts

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A law in Ohio governing the social media accounts of kids may be breaching the First Amendment in “breathtakingly blunt” ways, and a federal judge has ruled that it cannot take effect next week as initially planned.

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