The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene on a lower court decision that affirmed a Mississippi law requiring users to verify their ages before using social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, concurred with that order, but wrote: "In short, under this Court's case law as it currently stands, the Mississippi law is likely unconstitutional. Nonetheless, because NetChoice has not sufficiently demonstrated that the balance of harms and equities favors it at this time, I concur in the Court's denial of the application for interim relief."
The Mississippi law is far broader than a Supreme Court ruling just weeks ago that https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5422424/scotus-texas-porn-law upheld a Texas law mandating age verification to a