Senators Brian Schatz and Richard Blumenthal are working on bipartisan legislation to protect children from the negative effects of social media. Concerns include exposure to unhealthy lifestyles, pornography, and inappropriate content. The Kids Online Safety Act aims to provide tools to help parents regulate their children's online activities.
Parents need help regulating their children's social media. A government ban would help. https://t.co/lhO2zD2HKz
Opinion | Parents need help regulating their children's social media. A government ban would help. https://t.co/vmEnEgSW5A
Parents are scared of what they're seeing kids encounter online. Pornography seems ubiquitous, algorithms game users' attention spans, and content rec features offer plenty of inappropriate content. But tools exist that can help! I elaborate in @reason https://t.co/v14dtBuceT
The good folks of @reason were kind enough to run an excerpt of my 📕 a few years ago, but this is what I'd call my Reason debut! Beware of KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act by @SenBlumenthal. There are already great market solutions to kids' use of tech. https://t.co/v14dtBuceT
Parents know there’s no good reason for a child to be doom-scrolling through social media feeds that glorify unhealthy lifestyles. I'm proud to partner with @brianschatz on this bipartisan bill to help families protect their kids from the harms and dangers of addictive and…