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The Kids Online Safety Act’s last stand
Inside the final push to pass the Kids Online Safety Act.
“KOSA’s core approach still threatens the privacy, security and free expression of both minors and adults by deputizing platforms of all stripes to police their users and censor their content under the guise of a ‘duty of care,’” ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke said in a statement at the time. Several LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, including GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, and The Trevor Project, formally removed their opposition, telling Blumenthal that the “considerable changes … significantly mitigate the risk of it being misused to suppress LGBTQ+ resources or stifle young people’s access to online communities.” KOSA gained more than 60 Senate cosponsors, all but ensuring passage. People like Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra have connected the most recent upticks to the covid-19 pandemic, which he said placed “an exceptional burden on the mental well-being of our nation’s families.” Another researcher, Boston College professor Peter Gray, has said the overall trend “long preceded the internet” and links it to the decline of independent play.
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