Browsing: you know the kids are going to find ways to get at it. And they will find allies in some big companies with bottomless bankrolls to pay lawyers who’ll fight to keep the net just as it is.

     If they haven’t already done so, big companies like Meta, X, TikTok and similar weapons of mass distraction will send pinstriped brigades of lawyers into federal courts to block implementation of the statute. A coalition of tech giants has already unleashed preemptive legal actions against similar legislation in other states — arguing that somewhere in the Great Beyond, the spirit of Thomas Jefferson sobs silently for what state legislators have done to our sacred First Amendment.