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Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, sponsored the original legislation in 1998 — the last time Congress passed a child online safety law — and worked with Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana ...
Congress Short title Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status 117th Congress: Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 S.3663: February 16, 2022 Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) 13 Referred to committees of jurisdiction, but never saw a floor vote. 118th Congress: Kids Online Safety Act of 2023 H.R. 7891: April 19, 2023 Gus M ...
More than 200 organizations sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urging him to schedule a vote on the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) in January.
The bills were criticized as a "disguised internet censorship bill" that weakened Section 230 safe harbors, placed unnecessary burdens on internet companies and intermediaries that handle user-generated content or communications with service providers required to proactively take action against sex trafficking activities, and required a "team ...
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
(The Center Square) – During a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for legislation allowing parents to sue social media companies for harm caused to children.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a fierce and longtime advocate for freedom of speech online, said he voted against the bill because of concerns about the censorship of health information for LGBTQ+ teens ...
In 2018, Congress passed bill known variously as the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) or simply FOSTA/SESTA, which made it illegal for an interactive computer service to either promote or facilitate prostitution, which could include advertisements for prostitution ...