The Supreme Court (Andrew Harnik | Getty Images)The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene on a lower court decision that affirmed a Mississippi law requiring users to verify their ages before using social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. The Mississippi law is far broader than a Supreme Court ruling just weeks ago that upheld a Texas law mandating age verification to access websites with sexually explicit material. In addition to the age verification rule, the Mississippi law requires social media websites to work to prevent children from accessing “harmful materials” and prohibits minors from using social media websites, such as Instagram and Youtube, without parental consent. A district court agreed with Netchoice, temporarily stopping the Mississippi law from going into effect while proceedings continued in the lower courts. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, concurred with the court’s order Thursday, but wrote: “In short, under this Court’s case law as it currently stands, the Mississippi law is likely unconstitutional.