1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

Vote no on the KIDS Act. This bill — a rushed package combining KOSA, the SAFE BOTS Act, the SCREEN Act, and more — is being pushed through Congress without individual debate, and it amounts to a government ID checkpoint on the internet. If someone can hold a job, pay a credit card bill, and buy a data plan, we don't need a federal mandate forcing platforms to scan their face or verify their identity just to speak online. The bill's "knows or should have known" standard is a legal trap. Platforms facing that kind of liability will collect age data on everyone — not just kids. Age-estimation systems already fail disproportionately for people of color, people with disabilities, and trans and nonbinary people. The speech restrictions are just as bad: platforms will over-moderate lawful content about addiction recovery, harm reduction, and alcohol just to avoid lawsuits. That's not protecting kids. That's chilling speech for everyone. Parents are responsible for their children's internet use. That's not a radical position — it's what small government actually looks like. Conditioning access to the internet's primary speech infrastructure on submitting government identification is not a child safety measure. It's a surveillance architecture. Kill this bill.