I am urging you to vote NO on the 18-bill online safety package in the House Energy and Commerce committee. Barely anything in this bill protects kids. Most of these bills are age verification bills, which hundreds of human rights groups including the ACLU oppose.
How are you going to protect kids if you are going to force them and everyone involved to upload all their government information to the same Big Tech companies you want to protect them from? How is giving Mark Zuckerberg the private data of millions of minors across the country protecting them? How does that make sense? There are 19 separate bills on this in the package that most people have never even heard of before.
On top of that, KOSA is still a part of this bill. We need to hold Big Tech accountable, but KOSA is not the solution. How is Big Tech against this if Apple, Microsoft, Snapchat, and Twitter all support it? Any state attorney can sue any website for “harmful” content. Do we really want Republican state lawyers deciding what can and can’t be allowed online? Do we want to give Trump that power? That’s why they support KOSA. This is massive government overreach. We need a bill that actually protects children by creating better security measures instead of more censorship and surveillance.
What parent would want their child’s private data in the hands of strangers like this? Do NOT support this package. Thank you.
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