Not much on Capitol Hill is bipartisan but the Kids’ Online Safety Act passed this week by a 91-3 margin. A similar bill, the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Act, passed 86-1. They are now headed to the House where they are expected to pass.
Alleigh Marré, founder of the American Parents Coalition, tells AFN passage of the bills is a “great step” for “robust” online protections for kids.
“Better monitoring for harmful content, like self-harm or eating disorders; improvement of privacy restrictions; and defaulting accounts, that are registered to minors, to be the safest and most restrictive possible,” she says of the legislation’s goals.
A related story by NRO describes the twin bills as the “most significant tech-regulation package” introduced in the last 20 years.
“The last time Congress debated these types of protections for online safety and kids,” Marré similarly advises, “was back in 1998, which, as far as the Internet is concerned, is ancient history.”
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