Websites would have to shield teens from emotional and developmental harm under bill prioritized by Texas House speaker

From The Houston Chronicle:

…Tech companies and industry groups say the legislation would do nothing to fix those problems, while imposing requirements that are too subjective and vaguely defined for anyone to follow. Critics also say the bill would put essentially every website on the internet at risk of frivolous lawsuits — prompting companies to make changes that would “drastically diminish the usability of many internet services for all users, not just children,” argued Josh Withrow, a fellow at the free-market think tank R Street Institute…