The Kids Online Safety Act has been reintroduced in the Senate by Senators Blackburn (R-TN) and Blumenthal (D-CT) with the support of Leaders Thune (R-SD) and Schumer (D-NY). This important legislation establishes a duty of care for Big Tech platforms, requiring social media platforms to prevent harms to children! After coming incredibly close to passage last congress, it is imperative and urgent that Congress pass the Kids Online Safety Act (S. 1748). Fatalities and serious harm to minors continue as a result of specific practices and features developed for social media platforms. Despite facilitating unprecedented fatalities and serious harms to minors, tech platforms refuse to take responsibility for the harms the platforms they create have caused to children, even though they result from design features they create. To combat any attempt to hold them accountable, they have created confusion and spread misinformation around the bill – despite the fact that it is widely considered the most comprehensive child protection legislation moving through Congress today and passed the Senate 91-3 last session!America’s children cannot wait one more day, let alone one more legislative session, for the important protections offered by KOSA. Congress must take action – Big Tech has proved that it is incapable of policing itself. Your Senators must hear from you! Please ask them to co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act this session, and ask them to urge Senate Leadership to bring this important bill up for a vote.
