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The REPORT Act: Enhancing Online Child Safety Without the Usual Congressional Nonsense
For years and years, Congress has been pushing a parade of horrible “protect the children online” bills that seem to somehow get progressively worse each time. I’m not going through the entire list…
Just last week, we wrote about the Stanford Internet Observatory’s big report on the challenges facing the CyberTipline, run by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The one bit that we’ll have to see how it works is that it extends the reporting requirements for social media to include violations of 18 USC 1591, which is the law against sex trafficking. Senator Marsha Blackburn, who is the co-author of the bill, is claiming that this means that “big tech companies will now be required to report when children are being trafficked, groomed or enticed by predators.”
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