from the maybe-read-your-laws-before-passing-them dept Back in 2023, Arkansas passed a social media age verification law so poorly drafted that the bill’s own sponsor couldn’t accurately describe who it covered . The law appeared to exempt TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube while the sponsor publicly claimed those were the exact platforms being targeted. When the state’s own expert witness testified that Snapchat was covered, the state’s own attorney disagreed with his own witness in the same hearing. That law was struck down on First Amendment and vagueness grounds , and then permanently enjoined earlier this year in a suit brought by the trade group NetChoice. So Arkansas went back to the drawing board and passed Act 900 , which was supposed to fix all the problems with the original. Judge Timothy Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas has now preliminarily enjoined that law too , in a ruling that reads like a patient teacher explaining to a student why the homework still doesn’t work despite a rewrite.…