Family · Statewide · OH · August 14, 2026
NetChoice Asks Supreme Court to Block Ohio's Teen Social Media Consent Law
NetChoice, a tech industry group representing Meta, TikTok and Google, filed papers Tuesday with the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals signaling its intent to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Ohio's Parental Notification By Social Media Operators Act (HB33), according to MediaPost. The law, passed in 2023, bars certain social platforms from letting minors under 16 create accounts without parental permission. A 6th Circuit panel voted 2-1 to uphold the law, with Judge Eric Clay calling the consent requirement a 'marginal burden' on speech; Judge Kevin Ritz dissented. A lower federal judge, Algenon Marbley, had previously blocked the law as unconstitutionally vague. NetChoice is now asking the appellate court to delay finalizing its ruling until the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case, arguing 'hundreds of thousands of minors in Ohio will lose access overnight' to social platforms. Similar parental-consent laws in other states, including Mississippi and Florida, have also been contested, with mixed results in federal appeals courts.
Source: MediaPost
Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
Scripture places the authority to guide, protect, and consent on behalf of children with parents, not corporations or courts (Ephesians 6:1-4). Ohio's law simply requires parental permission before a minor opens a social media account — a modest safeguard against exploitation, addiction, and exposure to harmful content. NetChoice's effort to have this overturned by the Supreme Court represents a secular industry lobby working to remove parental authority in favor of unrestricted platform access for children. Christians should recognize this as part of a broader pattern: courts and corporations increasingly treating parental oversight of minors as a constitutional obstacle rather than a legitimate exercise of God-given family authority.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — Ephesians 6:1
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From the book
Defense of the family begins with jurisdiction. We do not defend parental rights because we are conservative. We defend them because God established them. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 locates the primary responsibility: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." That command is given to parents rather than to the priesthood or the king. The home is the primary school of virtue. Ephesians 6:4 reinforces it: "Fathers... bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord."
— Chapter 18, “The Jurisdictional Mandate”
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