That dance—sue, block, appeal, repeat—is already playing out over a new Texas law designed to impose age restrictions on app downloads. The showdown between Texas and Big Tech feels tailor-made to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A legal setback for Texas’ attempt to impose age restrictions on app stores has kicked off a 2026 showdown over free speech and ...

A new Texas state law set to take effect on Jan. 1 would have required app stores to implement age verification processes. But the law has been put on hold, at least temporarily, by a federal court ...