OP is right, this was discussed earlier this morning on the hill. It’s time to get up and speak up to your reps and senators about this. None of these bills are going to protect children, but all of them are going to violate the privacy rights and anonymity of all Americans. I would dare say they even directly violate the 3rd and 4th Amendments, so, GET UP AND TAKE ACTION! The warning lights are flashing red. If we don’t stop these bills, we’re not going to have any freedom for much longer, and you all know I’m right about this.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a package of 19 bills aimed at protecting kids on the internet, teeing Congress up for a chance at passing some of the most substantive internet regulations in recent history, alongside a fight over online speech rights.

The subcommittee on commerce will consider the bills during a hearing on Tuesday, including the contentious Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). KOSA has been the centerpiece of advocacy from parent survivors whose kids died after suffering from a range of online harms, including cyberbullying, sextortion, and drugs purchased through the internet. But the new version of the bill omits the animating feature of the Senate version that passed overwhelmingly last year: the duty of care, which would have made tech platforms legally responsible for mitigating harms stemming from their services, like eating disorders and depression. Critics warned that could sweep up a host of legal speech, including resources that seek to mitigate the very harms KOSA aims to solve.

In a new House discussion draft, the duty of care has been replaced by a requirement that social media platforms have “reasonable policies, practices, and procedures” to deal with four discrete kinds of harm: “Threats of physical violence,” “Sexual exploitation and abuse,” “Distribution, sale, or use of narcotic drugs, tobacco products, cannabis products, gambling, or alcohol,” and “Any financial harm caused by deceptive practices.” The extent of policies and procedures a platform has to have would need to be appropriate to the scale and complexity of the platform itself, and the technical feasibility of addressing the harms. The new version also expands the definition of who’s covered by the bill to include nonprofit platforms.

The package includes several other significant bills. Among them is the App Store Accountability Act, the federal version of a bill that’s passed in several states requiring age verification at the app store level and transmitting age signals to developers. The Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) would raise the age of privacy protections from an earlier version of the law from under 13 to under 17, and ban targeted advertising to those covered by the bill. The Reducing Exploitative Social Media Exposure for Teens (RESET) Act, currently a discussion draft, would prohibit social media platforms from allowing any kids or teens under 16 to maintain accounts.

It’s a significant step after last year, when House Republican leadership passed on the chance to advance KOSA. Though the Senate approved it 91-3, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) worried about the bill’s constitutionality and free speech implications. Opponents accused them of cozying up to the tech industry due to investments in their state. Now, it appears that House leadership may follow through on promises to reconsider kids online safety legislation — but it already looks far different than what was proposed last year, and there’s no promise it will cross the finish line.

Sweet jesus fuck, why can't it just die?!

>>1461889
It's insane how little attention this stuff is getting, even on 4chan. This is going to destroy us.

>>1462027
Last I checked, the CEOs on 4chan are telling ofcom to frigg off

Yo, this nigga really just posted a verge shit piece on /news/

>chuds vote to fuck over democrats
>chuds lose their privacy
>chuds commit suicide
>democrats regain control and restore privacy
This is fine.
Feel free to proactively kill yourselves

>>1462027
That's because the manager of 4chan supports this given he's fully backing republicans.
He also backs Project 2025 which would actually destroy 4chan because they want to end section 230 which gives web hosts immunity to whatever content is posted on their sites.
An given the site is being flooded with a cheese pizza spammer...

>>1462201
>democrats regain control and restore privacy
Oh, you sweet summer child.

>>1462213
It's not that threads for this get deleted, it's that they don't fucking happen at all.

>>1462199
Glad you agree with me that the verge is a liberal backed organization, anon

>>1462201
You fool, I’m a chud and last I checked, we own you. Not the other way around. You know what? This is exactly why both sides support it, they are grifting and profiting off stupid statements like yours.
And to think you are in the “it won’t affect me crowd.” Shame on you. Have fun being sacrificed to the globalists before all of us, RIP.

>>1462213
Erm, ackshually, AI Overview
+6
The statement that "4chan tells Ofcom to fuck off" captures the essence of a recent legal and regulatory dispute, where the US-based website has refused to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) and is challenging the regulator's authority. 4chan's legal representation reportedly used strong language in its formal response to the UK regulator.
Key Details of the Dispute
Ofcom's Actions: Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, issued a "final legal notice" to 4chan in June 2025, demanding information about how the platform handles illegal content risks under the new Online Safety Act. When 4chan failed to provide this information, Ofcom issued a £20,000 fine in October 2025, the first penalty under the new act. The regulator threatened potential further fines (up to 10% of global turnover) or even imprisonment for non-compliance.
4chan's Position: 4chan is a US company with no physical presence in the UK. Its legal team argues that Ofcom has no jurisdiction over a foreign entity and that complying with the OSA would violate 4chan's US First Amendment rights (freedom of speech).
The Response: Rather than simply ignoring the demands, 4chan hired a US law firm which reportedly sent a letter back to Ofcom, essentially telling them their demands are unenforceable. One lawyer involved has publicly stated that the UK has "zero chance" of enforcing the fine in the USA.
Outcome: 4chan has not blocked UK users, and users can still access the site without a VPN. The dispute has led to a legal challenge launched by 4chan against the UK over extraterritorial censorship. The UK's main leverage is potentially forcing ISPs to block the website within the UK.
This situation highlights a significant international conflict between the UK's attempts to regulate online safety globally and US free speech protections.

>>1462027
Sorry we're too busy getting spammed to shit because Trump won the 2016 election and fags have been running disruptive gayops ever since.
/Pol/ was the last bastion of Internet resistance, having supported movements like Occupy and Net Neutrality laws. Our place ruined. All other places dominated by mantric group thought.
Sorry. 4chins is officially out of business.

>>1462319
>/Pol/ was the last bastion of Internet resistance
>/pol/'s 'meme magic' got an orange subhuman elected in 2016: 'for teh lulz' and to 'own the libs'
>hindsight isn't 20-20. the only ones stopping /pol/ ensuring an orange subhuman wasn't re-elected: was /pol/
Not so 'lulzy' now, eh? You voted for this, or you'd admit that you're pro-Democrat. And in now Fascist America, owned are you, rightards/libertards. It's all your fault, and you don't have the right to blame anyone else.
There's still time, though, /pol/: you must now become anti-Trump & pro-Democrat, and do all in your power to 'meme' Trump & MAGA's political destruction in the midterms next year.
If you value this board's continued existence, you must become the diametric opposite to what you are now, certainly were before, /pol/, or be the cause of your own obliteration. Your choice.

>>1462319
Not with that attitude it won’t be, SPEAK UP!!!!

>>1462321
Their meme magic can also be the undoing of these frigging bills. As OP said, SPEAK UP

>>1462374
wrong
in order to make america great again, we need to remove privacy completely from the internet.
Then at least companies will need to pay american shills a living wage instead of subsidizing a bunch of foreign shills

>>1462376 sounds like I found the spammer that >>1462319 warned me about.
Know why? NO SELF AWARENESS when OP SAID, this is a BIPARTISAN BILL, NOT EXPLICITLY MAGA, NOT EXPLICITLY LIBERAL, BUT BIPARTISAN BILL.

>>1462374
COUGHING FIT
PANTS OF SHIT
CAN'T STAND UP
HE HAS TO SIT
PEE PEE PEE
POO POO POO
HE WON'T MAKE IT TO THE LOO
BY THE POWER OF KEK
IN THE NAME OF TRUMP
LIVE ON AIR
HE'LL TAKE A DUMP

>>1462378
>partisanbrain tries to inject right/left into a nonpartisan statement
You can just say you're afraid of losing your shitty foreign shill job

>>1462381
>trying to still paint bipartisan bad bill as a good thing to try and “own the chuds”
>record shows that chuds are UNDEFEATED against people who claim to “own the chuds”, and all without shilling.

KEK, LMAO, EVEN.
People like you will be hit the hardest if and only if this takes effect and you got no one to blame but yourself. >>1462017 and >>1462027 already understand what’s at stake here and are here to save you anon. BE FRIGGING GREATFUL!!!

>>1462379
“He’s confused but he’s got the spirit!”