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The Kids Online Safety Act does nothing to protect kids, and everything to inject the watchful eye of the government further into our lives. When are voters going to stop falling for the same two tricks? None of these bills have anything to do with kids or terrorism. They're all about enabling fascism.
well looks like this is going to get pretty bad...How is it the responsibility of platforms to take care of your children for you? It's not school, it's not daycare, it's the internet. Does the electric company have some moral or legal obligation to keep your children from jamming a fork in the outlet? Does a public beach need staff on hand to keep children from digging dangerously large sand tunnels that could collapse? Is it up to the water company to provide your child with special means of not flooding your basement? If we need this for some reason, why don't we need to force manufacturers to create cars that won't start for under-16's, windows in high buildings that you have to be 18 to open, or headphones that won't get too loud unless you enter your date of birth? This is some Footloose-level bullshit and I just do not get it I guess.
This is so dangerous. Why is he doing this?
Both parties are fully onboard with "think of the children" legislation just like they are for police and military funding.
The public is fully on board with it, unfortunately. Broad swaths of independents are terrified on behalf of children and will broadly believe anything you tell them could be a threat.
It's almost like democrats are perfectly happy throwing queer people to the wolves.
Just like how they act July 1st, every year
isn't this the one where they want to make you upload your drivers license to Facebook
Both sides of Congress have been saying for years now they are going to regulate big tech. This is one of the few things politicians have bipartisan agreeance on.
They're also all too old to grasp the technology they're tasked with regulating. What could go wrong.
It's almost like democrats are perfectly happy throwing queer people to the wolves.
After taking a read through, it seems like section 3 and section 12 can be interpreted to mean that if you have evidence that access to sex and gender education is benefit for the mental health of minors, you can actually enforce social media platforms allow posts to those resources.
I don’t really see why people are saying this would be bad for kids?
And, it seems this bill would also force large platforms to spend more on catching people on their platform seeking to sexually abuse kids. Something that platforms know is so rampant that they are reluctant to put in the appropriate amount of resources at the moment to tamp down on.
If there is a benefit of much less kids being abused, then I think it’s worth passing and then working within that framework to fight to ensure the law is used to benefit and not harm the LGBT community where applicable.
Not expecting many comments on this one haha.
Just because Republicans worship their Golden Idol doesn't mean Democrats do the same thing. Sometimes, Joe Biden can really be a dumbass, and this is one example.
More like one is a forest fire and one is a lava flow. Yeah, they're on different levels, but neither of them are livable
Why do politicians have to be such idiots. Rhetorical question, obviously.
(3) COVERED PLATFORM.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term “covered platform” means a social media service, social network, online video game (including educational games), messaging application, video streaming service, or an online platform that connects to the internet and that is used, or is reasonably likely to be used, by a minor.
SEC. 3. Duty of care.
(a) Prevention of harm to minors.—A covered platform shall act in the best interests of a user that the platform knows or reasonably should know is a minor by taking reasonable measures in its design and operation of products and services to prevent and mitigate the following:
(1) Consistent with evidence-informed medical information, the following mental health disorders: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and suicidal behaviors.
(6) Predatory, unfair, or deceptive marketing practices, or other financial harms.
Facebook is dead.
SEC. 4. Safeguards for minors.
(a) Safeguards for minors.—
(1) SAFEGUARDS.—A covered platform shall provide an individual that the covered platform knows or reasonably should know is a minor with readily accessible and easy-to-use safeguards to, as applicable—
(A) limit the ability of other individuals to communicate with the minor;
(B) prevent other users, whether registered or not, from viewing the minor’s personal data collected by or shared on the covered platform, in particular restricting public access to personal data;
(C) limit features that increase, sustain, or extend use of the covered platform by the minor, such as automatic playing of media, rewards for time spent on the platform, notifications, and other features that result in compulsive usage of the covered platform by the minor;
(D) control personalized recommendation systems, including the right to—
(i) opt out of such personalized recommendation systems, while still allowing the display of content based on a chronological format; or
(ii) limit types or categories of recommendations from such systems; and
(E) restrict the sharing of the geolocation of the minor and provide notice regarding the tracking of the minor’s geolocation.
If they enacted Sec 4 for adults as well, I'd consider using Facebook again.
And people wonder why other people still call him "Sleepy Joe", albeit not out in the open at least 🤷♀️
I don't know if him scheming to take away online privacy makes me think of him as "sleepy"
But y'know, 'muh harm reduction'.
