>KOSA would require online platforms — including social media, video games, messaging apps and streaming services – to exercise “reasonable care” when designing features that could lead to more addictive or harmful online behaviors for minors. It would provide parents with digital tools to control and monitor their children’s accounts, prohibit market or product research on children under the age of 13 and empower the Federal Trade Commission to investigate, fine and enforce the law.>The SCREEN Act, introduced last year by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, would require social media companies to implement age verification technology.>The Youth AI Privacy Act, from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., would require new safety features for AI chatbots.>The Chatbot Act, by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Brian Schatz, D-HawaiI, John Curtis, R-Utah and Adam Schiff, D-Calif. would require AI companies to implement “family accounts” for AI chatbots that give parents the ability to monitor and restrict their children’s interactions.>The Children’s Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act, by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., would create a federal study around toys sold to children that include artificial intelligence or chatbot components.https://cyberscoop.com/senate-kids-online-safety-act-ai-bills-markup/
EFF says these bills should be rejected because of privacy and censorship risks.>KOSA Pushes Platforms Toward Age Verification>The Senate version of KOSA imposes a “duty of care” on online services, including social media, to avoid exposing young people to certain material the law deems harmful. But those obligations only work if online services know which users are minors. That means more platforms will be pressured to implement age verification or age estimation systems.>That’s not a bill that increases privacy—it’s one that creates new privacy problems. Whether companies verify ages by checking government IDs, performing facial analysis, checking your bank records, or collecting other personal information, all of these systems require the handing over of more sensitive data, simply to access lawful online speech and services. They also create new databases of personal information that can be breached, misused, or demanded by governments.>KOSA Still Creates Incentives to Censor Lawful Speech>Some online content isn’t appropriate for minors. Families, schools, and communities all have important roles to play in helping children navigate the internet. But KOSA takes those decisions away from families and the young people who have a First Amendment right to speak and access information online. It instead empowers government officials to enforce how online services handle lawful speech. >And by empowering elected attorneys general in states across the country to enforce KOSA, the bill means those elected officials, rather than your family, deciding what’s appropriate online content for teens. Even more likely, it will lead to limits on what minors and adults are able to see at all, as companies shut down potentially controversial forums in order to avoid legal action from government bureaucrats. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-should-reject-kosas-privacy-risks
KIDSthe most powerful weapon on earth.
>>109460417Long story short: people who do nothing against real rapists from the Epstein list will regulate hard the internet to save children, because fuck you.
>UtahAlways
>>109460417>>109460417>The SCREEN Act Requires commercial interactive computer services that host explicit or harmful-to-minors visual content for profit to implement age-verification mechanisms. Expressly prohibits simple age self-attestation (such as entering a birthdate or clicking an "I am 18" button). Mandates that verification technology evaluate real-identity attributes or IP addresses. Allows platforms to contract with third-party verification providers to process user credentials.>The Chatbot Actsome stuff for observability/administration of another account..--get lost tranny
They already tried that in the 90s, it was shot down by the Supreme Court. Big fat nothingburger.
>>109462059The ultimate hypocrisy.
It doesn't matter, they'll go after NPC retards, some people will go to jail, it won't really work, and then they'll give up again for another 10 years.If you could really censor the Internet China, Russia, India, and Israel would be doing it.
>>109463400>It doesn't matter, they'll go after NPC retards, some people will go to jail, it won't really work, and then they'll give up again for another 10 yearsJust like happened in Reno v. ACLU. There's always nanny state junk like this that gets passed as a bone to soccer moms and then civil libertarian groups appeal it to a judge and get it shot down.
Is it time we, you know, got rid of kids once and for all?I don't wish to live in a total surveillance state.
>>109463454>Just like happened in Reno v. ACLU. There's always nanny state junk like this that gets passed as a bone to soccer moms and then civil libertarian groups appeal it to a judge and get it shot down.i think Congresspeople probably expect that to happen, they just pass these bills to buy suburban women's votes for their reelection and by the time a court overturns it they're already safely reelected.
>>109463400China and Russia only censor political stuff, they don't really care about anything else you do online.
>>109463454>>109449951turns out lawmakers are human too and don't like when they're inconvenienced trying to whack it to porn which is why measures like these fail in the end
>>109460417Since when do US politicians care about kids if they're not diddling them?
>>109463642>censor political stuffDo they really though?
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS####################################https://www.senate.gov/states/statesmap.htm####################################CONTACT YOUR SENATORSEmail them telling them that you will vote against them if they vote in favor of these.ORWrite a long email explaining why they shouldn't vote in favor of these.OR BETTER YETCall, schedule meetings, and in general pester your senators.You are given TWO SENATORS. The alternative to annoying and pestering them is nothing. You should do SOMETHING about this rather than nothing. It takes 5 minutes and is well worth the effort>but senators don't care!Senators don't care when 1 person emails them. They care when 400 people do. They don't like the be annoyed, or generally talked to in any way. And they certainly don't like the idea that people will vote against them. >but MY senators don't careThen tell them you'll vote against them, the only thing they DO care about.
>>109463687The same people saying FOR DAH CHILLUNS are people like Larry Craig passing laws around morality and sex on TV and homosexual behavior while at hte same time using taxpayer money to fly to the restrooms of different state capitals to suck dick in their public restrooms.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandalIt's all the same shit. >>109463730They don't, they want to be able to punish you for calling them peds with an infinite surveillance state.
>>109463877Just did, thanks for the reminder Me-tan
>>109460417>required to upload ID to EVERY WEBSITE you visit every time you visitIs congress. dare I say it... stupid?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_surfaceAren't lots of people going to have stolen IDs in the future??Wouldn't there also be a brand new need and thus market for stolen IDs once this law is put into effect?Do they not realize the kind of damage they are doing to themselves?!?Combine this with AI that can tell cops you are a criminal, but only have a 30% chance of you actually being one once your reported and so many innocent lives will be ruined. Many people who are 100% innocent are going to be put in jail. Many more will have their savings and retirement stolen. Have they not even considered this?!? This is pain and suffering on a massive and grand scale. Is this intentional, or are they simply that incompetent?How can they be so terrible at their jobs.
>>109460417>privacy, AI and kids safetyAh, a mass surveillance bill.
>>109460417>MUH MORALSpredator party projecting hard as usualhttps://goppredator.com
>>109464047You think they care? They let their interns deal with the real world, they don't know how any of this works. The average age of Congress is past retirement age.
>>109464047Everyone will use one guy's stolen ID.
>Miss Can't Welllol
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