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House Looks To Make KOSA And COPPA Worse

If you had that Congress was going to take bad “protect the children” bills and make them worse on your bingo card, congratulations, you’ve won this week’s easiest prediction. This seems like a not…

If you had that Congress was going to take bad “protect the children” bills and make them worse on your bingo card, congratulations, you’ve won this week’s easiest prediction. There’s no reason we can’t continue to educate kids, rather than hand off an impossible task to internet companies to magically find and stop all such content in the first place. A pretty straight reading of this suggests that social media companies need to get direct access to everyone’s medical records to determine if they’ve been diagnosed with an “emotional disturbance.” And, well, that doesn’t seem good.

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