Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Inside Big Tech's Bid to Sink the Online Kid Safety Bill

Tech giants and their allies lean on culture-war issues to splinter bipartisan support for the bill

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... When the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act in a nearly unanimous vote in July, it was a rare moment of bipartisan unity, suggesting overwhelming agreement that new rules are needed to protect children from potential harm online.

More than three months later, the bill is stalled in the House, snarled by intensifying conservative concerns and a record-breaking lobbying effort by technology companies. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-20 02:04 AM

It is still a bad bill that will increase government and corporate censorship, restrict the rights of adults and children and increase online monitoring.

The revised KOSA is still likely to result in websites expanding content censorship and being forced to enact age and location verification measures. Do you really want the Trump administration to be able to be able to determine what type of content is harmful to minors. KOSA could result in minors being restricted from accessing information on topics such as gender, race, suicide prevention, sexual development, etc?

Furthermore, why does it only ban deceptive practices targeting minors and require sites to give minor's the options to restrict the use of their personal data or even mandate the deletion of their accounts and data? If those are important features when it comes to protecting minors from online exploitation from big tech then why not also mandate those options be available for adult users? I trust my 15 year old nephew to make better decisions online than I do my 70 year old mother.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-11-20 03:57 PM

Reminds me of back when the tobacco companies were spending tens of millions of dollars (when that was a lot of money) fighting restrictions on cigarette smoking. How'd that work out? Point is, if something truly is wrong, sooner or later even the thickest headed MAGAt will understand.

#3 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-11-20 09:21 PM

"I trust my 15 year old nephew to make better decisions online than I do my 70 year old mother."

LOL, this. The elderly are, in some ways, more vulnerable to online exploitation than children. They will literally click on anything, the flashier the better. At least with kids, parents can control router access or use software to limit exposure. The only thing that slows down Granny is when her laptop gets swamped with popups or frozen from malware. When that happens I give her a few days to live with it then I send the 15 year old over to fix it for her.

#4 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2024-11-21 01:04 PM

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