Senate Passes Kids’ ‘Safety’ Bills Despite Privacy, Digital ID, and Censorship Concerns
Two bills combined – the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2. – have passed in the US Senate in a 91-3 vote, and will now be considered by the House. Criticism of the bills focuses mainly on the likelihood that, if and when they become law, they will help expand online digital ID verification, as well as around issues like censorship (removal and blocking of content). The effort to make KOSA and COPA 2.0 happen was spearheaded by a parent group that was pushing lawmakers and tech companies’ executives to move in this direction, and their main demand was to enact new rules that would prevent cyberbullying and other harms. https://www.infowars.com/posts..../senate-passes-kids-
