<story><title>Kids Online Safety Act is still a danger to our rights online</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>I would like to know who is paying (or bribing in the US) to push these bills.  Seems it is a tracking of children bill that advertising companies would love to have access to.&lt;p&gt;I am sure it will be private companies that do the tracking.  Also I am sure an encryption backdoor will be built into this bill if not already.&lt;p&gt;As a parent, if you want your young child to be &amp;quot;protected&amp;quot;, keep them off line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstarfish</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t read the bill, but my first thought is that there&amp;#x27;s always going to be some threat to children, so any time you want to play pork barrel politics, you can trot out some nebulous child-safety bill and append riders to that.&lt;p&gt;Second thought is that this isn&amp;#x27;t about private interests (though it&amp;#x27;s possible). Big Tech moves and grows faster than the government. Arbitrary requirements are one way to papercut a larger entity into submission, like FOSTA&amp;#x2F;SESTA or 2257-- we&amp;#x27;ll give ourselves a way to take you down for &lt;i&gt;something.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case in point:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The bill holds platforms liable if their designs and services do not “prevent and mitigate” a list of societal ills: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use disorders, physical violence, online bullying and harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, and suicidal behaviors. Additionally, platforms would be responsible for patterns of use that indicate or encourage addiction-like behaviors.&lt;p&gt;Platforms would be responsible for preventing and mitigating &lt;i&gt;anxiety.&lt;/i&gt; Platforms are prohibited from doing anything to incentivize repeat business. This is Obscenity 2.0.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kids Online Safety Act is still a danger to our rights online</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmclnx</author><text>I would like to know who is paying (or bribing in the US) to push these bills.  Seems it is a tracking of children bill that advertising companies would love to have access to.&lt;p&gt;I am sure it will be private companies that do the tracking.  Also I am sure an encryption backdoor will be built into this bill if not already.&lt;p&gt;As a parent, if you want your young child to be &amp;quot;protected&amp;quot;, keep them off line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flipbrad</author><text>In the UK, the AVPA - age verification providers association (members include Experian) have been super active on the Online Safety Bill.  Curious to know if there&amp;#x27;s a US involvement , too.&lt;p&gt;The media seems to have missed this - then again, these laws are their opportunity to stick the boot into Tech, and usually have carve outs and special treatment under these laws, so they&amp;#x27;re not especially incentivised to rock the boat here.</text></comment>