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I've read this article multiple times, but I still don't understand the core legal claim.

What's the case for the First Amendment not allowing KOSA?

What makes KOSA different from constitutional obscenity/indecency laws?

Thanks for helping me understand.

This Techdirt piece from Mike Masnick describes a bit more detail: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/15/senator-blumenthal-prete...

Mike Masnick is funded by Google via his Copia institute, so any time Mike rails against a proposed regulation of Google / YouTube you should probably just dismiss it.

Who said the obscenity/indecency laws are constitutional? I sure as hell don’t think they are. These sorts of laws spit in the face of the First Amendment and deserve to be struck down.

they are there to protect everyone from people like you who want to walk around naked.

> Who said the obscenity/indecency laws are constitutional?

Courts

> These sorts of laws spit in the face of the First Amendment

FWIW, the same people who created and passed the First Amendment also created and passed obscenity laws.

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