On suspense file day, state legislators killed dozens of bills, including some controversial proposals on health care costs, social media regulation and much, more more. Here is what happened to numerous key bills, tracked by our reporters.
exacerbated by social media companies conducting “an unfettered social experiment on children.”Anthony Portantino
, a Glendale Democrat, made “the unilateral decision” to hold the bill and warned that “the bill’s death means that a handful of social media companies will be able to continue their experiment on millions of California kids, causing generational harm.” “I believe that this idea would be overwhelmingly supported if presented directly to the voters, as it would be prohibitively expensive for social media companies to take every California voter on a Tech Caucus junket in Napa,” Cunningham added in a statement.
But tech companies countered there were better ways to address kids’ mental health than impinging on online platforms’ First Amendment rights. “As we’ve said from the start, protecting children online is a priority but must be done responsibly and effectively,” Dylan Hoffman, TechNet’s executive director for California and the Southwest, said in a statement. TechNet, an industry group that represents such companies as Meta , Apple and Google, lobbied aggressively against the bill. “We’re glad to see that this bill won’t move forward in its current form.
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