1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

, I am concerned that the bill would create significant unintended consequences for free expression, privacy, and access to information. I am writing as a constituent to express my opposition to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). While I share the goal of improving children's safety online reduce access to important educational and support resources for young people, including information about mental health, sexual health, and identity. l requires companies to mitigate potential harms to minors, platforms may respond by over-moderating content that touches on sensitive topics. This could KOSA's "duty of care" framework could pressure online platforms to broadly restrict or remove lawful content in order to avoid liability. Because the bil The bill may increase pressure for age verification and identity collection in order for platforms to determine who is a minor. Systems that require user s to provide identification or other sensitive personal data could create new privacy risks for both minors and adults. Large centralized databases of id entity information can become targets for misuse, surveillance, or data breaches. This bill could concentrate power over online speech in the hands of government officials and large technology companies. The legislation gives state att orneys general authority to enforce the duty of care standard, which could lead to politically motivated pressure on platforms regarding what content sho uld be considered harmful to minors. Smaller platforms may also struggle to meet compliance costs, potentially reducing competition and diversity online. dermining privacy, free expression, or access to information online. Thank you for your time and for considering my views. For these reasons, I urge you to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act in its current form and instead pursue approaches that protect young people without un