Nebraska debate turns contentious over parental-rights social media bill; critics cite First Amendment and implementation concerns

Senator Storer introduced LB 3 83, the Parental Rights and Social Media Act, and the Judiciary Committee’s amendment AM 08:37 (which incorporates Senator Harden’s LB 172 on computer-generated child sexual abuse material) was presented to the floor. The bill would require parental consent and commercially reasonable age verification for minors to create social-media accounts and would require platforms to provide parental oversight tools; the committee amendment also updates state law to criminalize AI-generated child sexual-abuse material (CSAM).

Storer, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure is content-neutral and modeled on age-verification laws in Tennessee and Louisiana. She cited the U.S. surgeon general’s advisory on youth mental health and…