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.
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.
Looking forward to the Epstein class vetoing this when they realize they can’t watch their preferred type of porn any more
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?
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…
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.
Should we just share memes and titties outside since the normies moved online and fucked it up?
We’re going to PROTECT the CHILDREN by
PROSECUTING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators!GIVING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators ACCESS to your Children!👆
internet was fun while it lasted; new internet is ass anyway
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.
Better get to that quick. Before we move to burn all the rest of the books.
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.
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).
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.
With the internet dead, you get the benefit of getting information exclusively from Oligarch Approved media outlets!
The chains are starting to break, we’re almost free!
Underneath a chestnut tree?
They’re preparing for civil unrest.
Remember, it’s not about the kids.
It never was. But repubs certainly can’t stop thinking about them.
There’s a lot of blue seats in that image too
Welcome back, SOPA. We didn’t miss you. In fact, SOPA should’ve been actually dead instead of waiting to resurface for 14 years.
What the hell? Where did the time go? We’re stuck in the goddamned land of lotus flowers here. Can the internet itself just die already?
I wonder if it’ll ever be feasible to do some kind of mass, federated mesh networking to cut out the ISPs altogether.
Meshtastic? LoRa?
Or do you mean something like VPN tunneling?
Probably something more like VPN tunneling. The web we have today, but without having to subscribe to an ISP to connect to peers outside your LAN.
Going to be hard since the hardware sitting between all those wires cost money to run and… that’s pretty much what ISPs get paid do. They’re assholes who shouldn’t have a say in what goes through those connections but their job isn’t redundant, someone has to do it to maintain those connections.
Yup, that’s why I’m hoping wireless meshing technologies improve to a point that we can start to replicate things
Then you’re just going to have the FCC regulating the high-throughput bandwidths until you’re left with the unregulated ones for consumers… like LoRa… and Meshtastic lol.
And while those are cool and all, they have sever limitations due to the frequencies they use and can not scale past a hobbiest load.
If we want what we consider a “full featured” internet alternative, it will have to be built as a layer on top of the existing internet. Similar to the dark web, it’ll be sort of a grey web where tech savvy people convene and don’t cause enough fuss to be a target for crackdown. So long as encryption remains legal there are no major barriers. If we lose that it becomes much more difficult.
Ohh that would be fantastic!
For now I guess I2P can/will help
WHAT THE FUCK. Fuck my representative fucking hell
Democrats are smiling foxes.
Surprised to see Hirono on there, thats disappointing. But Schumer, Slotkin, Fetterman, Kloubachar, Whitehouse, Warner … the usual band of traitorous republican-lite DNC idiots is no big surprise. Thanks for the link.
This title may be cited as the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act or the SCREEN Act.
Oh wow, they really love their acronyms!
Or the ‘Killing Internet Dissent and Speech’ Act. KOSA is the ‘Killing Online Speech Act.’
