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Senate Passes the Kids Online Safety Act
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA 2.0), the first major internet bills meant to protect children to reach that milestone in two decades. A legislative ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act(KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act(also known as COPPA 2.0), the first major internet bills meant to protect children to reach that milestone in two decades. KOSA is a landmark piece of legislation that a persistent group of parent advocates played a key role in pushing forward -- meeting with lawmakers, showing up at hearings with tech CEOs, and bringing along photos of their children, who, in many cases, died by suicide after experiencing cyberbullying or other harms from social media. The legislation faces significant opposition from digital rights, free speech, and LGBTQ+ advocates who fear it could lead to censorship and privacy issues.
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