South Carolina Age-Appropriate Code Design Act

South Carolina's Age-Appropriate Code Design Act, signed Feb. 5, 2026, requires covered services to let under-18 users (or their parents) disable features such as messaging, comments and recommendation algorithms. The day after it took effect, NetChoice - whose members include Reddit - sued on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds, calling it an 'unlawful censorship regime' over how sites present speech. South Carolina is the fifth state to enact such a design-code law.