1A law on online anonymity is also clear. Free speech includes the ability to communicate anonymously, and this applies to the Internet, like any other form of communication.

The 1A law is very clear: there are “less restrictive means” of protecting kids online. Like safety tools Google and Apple currently offer parents. Filtering software is both less restrictive than age verification and often more effective, as the Court found in Ashcroft.

Age Verification Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Even for App Stores App stores, like websites, don't actually know how old their users are and forcing users to identify themselves would deprive them of First Amendment rights to anonymity

We've been through before. Last year, @berinszoka.bsky.social explained why age verification mandates are unconstitutional, even for app stores.

berinszoka.substack.com/p/age-verifi...

Age verification is a policy idea which just won’t die, despite being repeatedly struck down in court.

This is just the latest attempt to spin it with a new twist - by putting the responsibility on app stores. But that doesn’t make age verification any more constitutional.