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KOSA was introduced to the Senate by senators Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn on February 16, 2022. The bill was a direct result after Frances Haugen, a data scientist for Facebook, leaked internal files through The Wall Street Journal in 2021 that showed negative effects of Instagram on minors' mental
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) 2.0 passed with a strong bipartisan consensus, 91-3.
The heads of five major social media platforms will be in Washington on Wednesday to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about protecting children online.
The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue today: Kids Online Safety Bill
COPPA 2.0 would have required youth aged 13, 14, 15 or 16 to consent to the processing of their own data, but would not have required the parents of 13-16 year olds to consent to the data processing. [20] COPPA 2.0, as well as KOSA, failed to pass the House when the 118th US Congress expired on January 3, 2025. [20]
The bill contained an extension of government funding to March 14, 2025, a one-year extension of the farm bill, and $110 billion in disaster aid. [20] The bill, which was 1,547 pages, was described as a Christmas tree bill due to its inclusion of unrelated policy riders . [ 21 ]
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The Heritage Foundation supports the bill so that it could be used to target transgender content, making it possible that the bill is related to Project 2025 (plus Project 2025 mentions social media addiction and Big Tech). National Center on Sexual Exploitation (unsurprisingly) supports KOSA.