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The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A new bill sponsored by Sen. Schatz (D-HI), Sen. Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Britt (R-AL) would combine some of the worst elements of various social media bills aimed at “protecting the children” into a single law.

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[–] tronx4002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

While I don't support bills like this from the gvmt, I wouldn't mind if more social media companies had the mindset of The Well's "you own your own words" where everyones real identity is used.