cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1230279/us-house-passes-the-kids-internet-and-digital-safety-kids-act-which-would-basically-requ
This bill requires specified online platforms to establish safeguards for minors. The safeguards include (1) limiting access to specified sexual material, (2) providing parental controls on social media and online video game platforms, and (3) requiring artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to disclose certain information to users who are minors.
First, publicly available online platforms on which more than one-third of the content is considered sexual material harmful to minors under the bill must adopt technology to identify minors and prevent them from accessing such material.
Next, social media platforms must (1) implement default settings for minors that limit compulsive usage features and the ability of other users to communicate with minors, and (2) provide tools for parents to manage the privacy and account settings of a minor. Social media platforms may not allow ephemeral messaging features for minors.
The bill also requires online video game platforms to provide tools that allow parents to (1) limit communication between a minor and other users of the platform, and (2) restrict purchases by a minor on the platform.
Further, providers of AI chatbots must disclose to users who are minors (1) that the chatbot is an AI system and not a human, and (2) suicide and crisis intervention hotline information.
Finally, the bill requires specified studies and reports about the effects of social media platforms on minors and provides for enforcement of the bill’s requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.
This will be a kiss of death for every site that enacts it
Obviously, I hate it, but
specified online platforms
that’s a lot more weaksauce than I was expecting. I guess these old fossils don’t know that there are websites based in other countries
I’m tired man
This is one of those deals where the ALL fall in line from both parties. That’s when you know the Big Fix is in. The Sociopathic Oligarchs demanded this because it not only makes them mind-boggling wealth, but it also allows them to kill those who are causing them trouble.
And the people we elected to protect us, sold us out - nearly all of them.
This is such bullshit. If they really cared about the well-being of children, they’d make sure they had free healthcare, free daycare, and free college/trade school.
This is ONLY about connecting our identities with our online activity. They just put a bunch of people in prison for DECADES for possessing writings that were “anti-government,” so that allowed them to be classified as ANTIFA terrorists. This will allow them to do that with ANYONE who posts something they don’t like.
Just because these parasites claim to have a righteous rationalization for this, doesn’t mean we have to accept it. We KNOW they are lying, and the real reason is to control the adults of this country, not the children.
A lifetime of invasive surveillance is far more damaging to society, than kids discovering that men and women have different genitalia.
If they actually cared about kids, the Epstein files would have been released ages ago with no redactions. No politician cares about you or your kids.
You don’t get it. This is to know who is underage and where they live. No one said Epstein’s death was the end of their pedo business.
I’d be surprised if it was. The man was a symptom, not the root cause of the problem, and he certainly didn’t do it all by himself.
He was the stereotypical man in the underworld who could get you anything, as long as you could afford the price.
Others would almost certainly have filled in the gap he left by now.
Ehm. He was a Mossad agent collecting blackmail material on highly influential people. He just went for the sector his targets are most interested in.
the list of “if they actually cared about kids, they would have/should have done X” is so long you could probably print it out at an 8 point font and it’d still reach from coast to coast across the width of america.
My Democratic house member (who ran unopposed in his last two primaries) voted for the KIDS acts. I am so glad I get to vote for him this year in the general election. I love living in my very healthy and functional democracy.
Most Americans will accept deep surveillance z and the arrests that will follow, without complaints. “Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear”
I think, this is a nice move, but thinking maybe there are other important matters that needs to be addressed first before this
Never about protecting children about fighting privacy and making data collection easier.
Why Comment. There’s like 4 people here. Do you do this often?
You just blow in from Stupid Town?
200 likes. 40 comments. “4 people”
I think your discouraging comment is either written out of spite, or straight up discouraging propaganda.
Neither options are good, so go fuck yourself.
Why comment something like this when you can literally see how many subs there are on this community (85.8k by the way)?
Do you do this often? Show your idiocy, I mean…
yeah, good luck with that. I’ll just go read a book under a tree at that point. The internet can just be a bunch of bots shitposting to each other. The day I have to have ID to use the internet is the day I log off for good.
The reason they want age verification isn’t to protect the kids. It’s to verify the entity making a request is a real person and not a bot so they can charge more for the ad space.
Also to track what everyone does on the internet so it can be used against them.
That’s what the government wants and happens to align with industry
Yep why do you think Facebook is behind most of these bills.
The ultimate reason is surveillance state, and Trotsky deserves exhumation and incineration for his treachery of the working class, of which his despicable list is but a foreboding symbol.
Tech companies used to push back on stuff like this, but now that they need to fix the ad market they’re fine with the surveillance.
Its been over a decade since i last sat in a hammock and read a book. Kinda excited for the internet to die now tbh.
The chains are starting to break, we’re almost free!
With the internet dead, you get the benefit of getting information exclusively from Oligarch Approved media outlets!
This is only for the clearnet, the darknets don’t have this. Maybe most people will go to darknets. Of course due to being unregulated it has all kinds of disturbing stuff.
the darknets don’t have this.
- …Yet. Surely that’s the next destruction target, though.
Better get to that quick. Before we move to burn all the rest of the books.
You know you can do both right now…go read a book on the internet under a tree. In fact, I recommend reading Brave New World specifically. It’ll be a good time (no sarcasm).
Underneath a chestnut tree?
We’re going to PROTECT the CHILDREN by
PROSECUTING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators!GIVING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators ACCESS to your Children!Now they don’t have to wait for you to put your daughter into modeling or beauty contest. They can access her right through your Wi-Fi.
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They’re preparing for civil unrest.
This is why you don’t get rid of the filibuster.
