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KOSA sponsors urge ‘quick and clean’ Senate vote with a recess looming

They’re racing to get the bill across the. finish line.

Republican leadership recently scuttled an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing where the House version of KOSA was set to be discussed, due to concerns with a separate privacy bill. The bill was first introduced in 2022 and faced a barrage of criticism from a variety of groups including LGBTQ+ organizations, that feared the duty of care it imposed on social media companies to mitigate harms to kids could be weaponized to target positive resources for marginalized teens. KOSA is ambiguous enough that different administrations could censor content all along the political spectrum, from guns to vaccines to transgender issues to abortions.” Fight for the Future Director Evan Greer said on X that, “Schumer is throwing LGBTQ youth under the bus for a bill that won’t even pass the House just so he can say he’s ‘protecting the kids’ ahead of the election.”

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