Texas’s law requiring app store age verification for children can set the online safety standard for American youth if the courts allow it to stand.

WASHINGTON, July 6 : The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to…

Texas can enforce for now a law requiring parental consent for children to download most apps. The law is being challenged as a free-speech violation.