This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Thursday, March 28, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Young people use the internet in a wide variety of ways, and governments both federal

and state are considering or implementing ways

that would make it harder for young people to use the internet.

It is Jennifer Huddleston believes that courts should affirm First Amendment rights

for youths in our digital age.

Her paper on the subject is out today.

We spoke this week.

Jen, the notion of young people and their interactions with technology has been sort of front of my mind for a few years now as my children have awakened to the delights of digital devices and what can be done with them.

And as a parent, I feel like it's my responsibility to make sure that their experience is appropriate, that it is not dangerous to them.

So you make an argument that I think is, I think at first blush a lot of people would sort of

reject out of hand the notion that there is some

sort of affirmative entitlement a right that young people might ought to have

with respect to the information that they have access to.

Could you flesh that out?

So I think it's important to distinguish between what the government can do to a young

person's rights and what a parent can do.

As you mentioned, there are times when parents may want to say,

I'm not ready for my child to get online, these are going to be different situations in different households.

But if we look at existing court precedent, what we do find is that young people do have some

degree of First Amendment rights that should be able to be protected from government

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