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Chuck Schumer plans to bring two major kids online safety bills to the Senate floor this week
It’s the biggest federal legislative move in kids online safety.
Some advocacy groups like Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have remained critical of KOSA, fearing it would stifle speech across the internet and could limit access to certain resources for marginalized kids on ideological grounds. They’d need to be passed by the House, which recently canceled a committee hearing that would have included a discussion of KOSA due to Republican leadership concerns on a separate privacy bill. While states throughout the country have passed varying types of kids' online safety bills, many have been successfully blocked on First Amendment grounds, and still others have yet to contend with the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision affirming that social media companies’ content moderation and curation choices are expressive, protected speech.
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