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 would highly recommend actually reading the full text of the bill. It is a lot more than what is in the body of the post.
It is not clear to me whether a site would need to be hosted in the US to fall under this law or if they would just need to be accessible in the US.
I would post the definitions but there are 7 titles under this law and 5 of them each have their own definition.
Edit: just to be clear. I hate this law too. ID requirements will kill many platforms or people will use vpns to circumvent.
Why would someone from another country follow U.S. law. Not their problem.
If they want to do business in the US then it follows that they would need to follow us law when conducting that business. It is the same reason that valve has to follow California law despite not being headquartered in California.
If that weren’t the case then businesses would just move to international waters and claim to only need to follow maritime law.
I’m tired man
They said they take away the liberties of young people - they took away the liberties of all people.
At this point they’re the ones creating false premises and the people dont have any real way of challenging that.
I’d turn that vote tally into a six-seven “joke”, but that would require more critical thought than what every politician put into drafting and/or voting that law through Congress.
They are all about freedom and small gov until they are in power.
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.
Situation is shit now, but I really love that people made spaces such as this one - small, and calm, without too much (of course they are) normies looking around. Hell, the best defensive mechanism against normies appears to be “pick your server” question when registering.
And looking forward, internet will pop and transform thanks to such small spaces that will emerge out of nowhere, against the stupid laws and censorship, even if access will be limited it will work as sifting for low-efforders.
I love it. Now it’s time to take my meds and go to bed. 👴
Fortunately thanks to VPNs I’m Canadian. I can just keep changing the settings the more and more countries implement dumb laws.
Now I’m sure some politicians have come up with a bright idea of banning VPNs and I’m just looking forward to the drama when that idea is tabled.
Oh they’re definitely gonna ban VPNs too.
I think, this is a nice move, but thinking maybe there are other important matters that needs to be addressed first before this
This is why you don’t get rid of the filibuster.
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.
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!
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).
Better get to that quick. Before we move to burn all the rest of the books.
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.
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.
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
