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

Full Bill Text.

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.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    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

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Most Americans will accept deep surveillance and the arrests that will follow, without complaints. “Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear”

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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    11 hours ago

    Looking forward to the Epstein class vetoing this when they realize they can’t watch their preferred type of porn any more

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      7 hours ago

      The Epstein class desperately wants this. They can get around it easily, and this way anything bad you say about them can be tied directly to your identity. This will never catch a rich person, it’s about persecuting dissenters who threaten their power.

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        6 hours ago

        Its not like they could just create a company that collects almost every child’s image through the years which can then be tied directly to parents addresses anyway… /s

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    11 hours ago

    While I disagree with the premise of the bill, I only take issue, when it comes to application and enforcement, with sec 103 not explicitly stating what is stated in other sections that the verification method shouldn’t be based off of government Id. However, saying that, I think that if it were possible I would be okay with this legislation, but I cannot fathom a way in which you verify someone’s age without using government id, considering that the only proofs of age as far as I am concerned is birth certificate and the documents that are based off of it.

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    11 hours ago

    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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      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.

      • SecretSauces@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        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…

      • lb_o@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        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.

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    13 hours ago

    Should we just share memes and titties outside since the normies moved online and fucked it up?