California governor signs ban on social media ‘aiding or abetting’ child abuse
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Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1394, a law that would punish web services for knowingly facilitating, aiding, or abetting commercial sexual exploitation" of children. It's one of several online regulations that California has passed in recent years, some of which have been challenged as unconstitutional.
Newsom's office indicated in a press release yesterday that he had signed AB 1394, which passed California's legislature in late September. The law is set to take effect on January 1, 2025. It adds new rules and liabilities aimed at making social media services crack down on child sexual abuse material, adding punishments for sites that knowingly" leave reported material online. More broadly, it defines aiding or...