Aaron Mackey

Aaron Mackey appears in Would banning teens from social media violate their First Amendment rights? as the Electronic Frontier Foundation speaker assessing California AB 1709, California’s proposed under-16 social media ban. His role is to frame child-safety legislation as a constitutional speech problem, not only as platform regulation.

Mackey argues that minors have rights to speak and access lawful online speech, and that age-verification or parental-consent gates can also burden adult users. He connects that objection to EFF’s preferred policy route: Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy rules that reduce surveillance, opaque targeting, and platform data extraction without cutting young people off from major communication spaces.

Connections

• Electronic Frontier Foundation - organization he represents in the source.
• California AB 1709, Youth Online Speech Rights, and Social Media Age-Gate Speech Burden - main legal and policy topics.
• Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy, Platform Data Regulation, and Civil Liberties Surveillance Risk - policy alternative and civil-liberties frame.
• Meta, YouTube, and Social Media Product Liability - litigation backdrop he discusses through recent verdicts.