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Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate::The bill would create a duty of care for tech platforms to protect child and teen users.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Say goodbye to the small remaining amount of privacy we have. This will be the catalyst to shove LGBTQ+ back into the closets and it will be praised by voters as progress for protecting children and having no clue what the bill actually does

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

“Protect the children” is seemingly only used to encroach more and more in our personal lives. The last time it was used honestly was when we stopped making kids work in the mines.