1. First Amendment Violation
The law requiring age verification for all app downloads is seen as an unconstitutional burden on speech, akin to ID checks at every bookstore door.
"Judge Robert Pitman said that it violates the First Amendment and is 'more likely than not - unconstitutional.' The Act is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door" - WarOnPrivacy.
"The 1st Amendment" - jibal.
2. Privacy and Surveillance Risks
Age verification mandates collect sensitive data, eroding 4th Amendment protections and enabling mass surveillance via governments and corporations.
"Courts repeatedly and routinely support and protect the government in it's continual, blatant violation of our 4A protections. This has allowed governments... to build out the most pervasive surveillance system in human history" - WarOnPrivacy.
"It is almost certainly true that some company has private information about you that they can turn over without a warrant" - shkkmo.
3. Inconsistencies in Age Restrictions on Rights
Debate over whether age limits on rights like speech or guns are constitutional, questioning consistent principles amid varying state/federal rules.
"It is difficult to square the notional unconstitutionality of this with the fact that the exercise of other Constitutional rights have long been conditional on age" - jandrewrogers.
"minors don't have the same First Amendment rights as adults to access 'obscene as to minors' material" - robkop (citing Ginsberg v. New York).