cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1230279/us-house-passes-the-kids-internet-and-digital-safety-kids-act-which-would-basically-requ
This bill requires specified online platforms to establish safeguards for minors. The safeguards include (1) limiting access to specified sexual material, (2) providing parental controls on social media and online video game platforms, and (3) requiring artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to disclose certain information to users who are minors.
First, publicly available online platforms on which more than one-third of the content is considered sexual material harmful to minors under the bill must adopt technology to identify minors and prevent them from accessing such material.
Next, social media platforms must (1) implement default settings for minors that limit compulsive usage features and the ability of other users to communicate with minors, and (2) provide tools for parents to manage the privacy and account settings of a minor. Social media platforms may not allow ephemeral messaging features for minors.
The bill also requires online video game platforms to provide tools that allow parents to (1) limit communication between a minor and other users of the platform, and (2) restrict purchases by a minor on the platform.
Further, providers of AI chatbots must disclose to users who are minors (1) that the chatbot is an AI system and not a human, and (2) suicide and crisis intervention hotline information.
Finally, the bill requires specified studies and reports about the effects of social media platforms on minors and provides for enforcement of the bill’s requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.
They said they take away the liberties of young people - they took away the liberties of all people.
At this point they’re the ones creating false premises and the people dont have any real way of challenging that.
I’d turn that vote tally into a six-seven “joke”, but that would require more critical thought than what every politician put into drafting and/or voting that law through Congress.
Situation is shit now, but I really love that people made spaces such as this one - small, and calm, without too much (of course they are) normies looking around. Hell, the best defensive mechanism against normies appears to be “pick your server” question when registering.
And looking forward, internet will pop and transform thanks to such small spaces that will emerge out of nowhere, against the stupid laws and censorship, even if access will be limited it will work as sifting for low-efforders.
I love it. Now it’s time to take my meds and go to bed. 👴
Fortunately thanks to VPNs I’m Canadian. I can just keep changing the settings the more and more countries implement dumb laws.
Now I’m sure some politicians have come up with a bright idea of banning VPNs and I’m just looking forward to the drama when that idea is tabled.
This will be a kiss of death for every site that enacts it
Obviously, I hate it, but
specified online platforms
that’s a lot more weaksauce than I was expecting. I guess these old fossils don’t know that there are websites based in other countries
I would highly recommend actually reading the full text of the bill. It is a lot more than what is in the body of the post.
It is not clear to me whether a site would need to be hosted in the US to fall under this law or if they would just need to be accessible in the US.
I would post the definitions but there are 7 titles under this law and 5 of them each have their own definition.
Edit: just to be clear. I hate this law too. ID requirements will kill many platforms or people will use vpns to circumvent.
Why would someone from another country follow U.S. law. Not their problem.
This is such bullshit. If they really cared about the well-being of children, they’d make sure they had free healthcare, free daycare, and free college/trade school.
This is ONLY about connecting our identities with our online activity. They just put a bunch of people in prison for DECADES for possessing writings that were “anti-government,” so that allowed them to be classified as ANTIFA terrorists. This will allow them to do that with ANYONE who posts something they don’t like.
Just because these parasites claim to have a righteous rationalization for this, doesn’t mean we have to accept it. We KNOW they are lying, and the real reason is to control the adults of this country, not the children.
A lifetime of invasive surveillance is far more damaging to society, than kids discovering that men and women have different genitalia.
If they actually cared about kids, the Epstein files would have been released ages ago with no redactions. No politician cares about you or your kids.
You don’t get it. This is to know who is underage and where they live. No one said Epstein’s death was the end of their pedo business.
I’d be surprised if it was. The man was a symptom, not the root cause of the problem, and he certainly didn’t do it all by himself.
He was the stereotypical man in the underworld who could get you anything, as long as you could afford the price.
Others would almost certainly have filled in the gap he left by now.
Ehm. He was a Mossad agent collecting blackmail material on highly influential people. He just went for the sector his targets are most interested in.
the list of “if they actually cared about kids, they would have/should have done X” is so long you could probably print it out at an 8 point font and it’d still reach from coast to coast across the width of america.
This is one of those deals where the ALL fall in line from both parties. That’s when you know the Big Fix is in. The Sociopathic Oligarchs demanded this because it not only makes them mind-boggling wealth, but it also allows them to kill those who are causing them trouble.
And the people we elected to protect us, sold us out - nearly all of them.
It’s worth noting that this isn’t a distraction, this is the main event.
yeah, good luck with that. I’ll just go read a book under a tree at that point. The internet can just be a bunch of bots shitposting to each other. The day I have to have ID to use the internet is the day I log off for good.
Its been over a decade since i last sat in a hammock and read a book. Kinda excited for the internet to die now tbh.
The chains are starting to break, we’re almost free!
With the internet dead, you get the benefit of getting information exclusively from Oligarch Approved media outlets!
The reason they want age verification isn’t to protect the kids. It’s to verify the entity making a request is a real person and not a bot so they can charge more for the ad space.
Also to track what everyone does on the internet so it can be used against them.
That’s what the government wants and happens to align with industry
Yep why do you think Facebook is behind most of these bills.
The ultimate reason is surveillance state, and Trotsky deserves exhumation and incineration for his treachery of the working class, of which his despicable list is but a foreboding symbol.
Tech companies used to push back on stuff like this, but now that they need to fix the ad market they’re fine with the surveillance.
This is only for the clearnet, the darknets don’t have this. Maybe most people will go to darknets. Of course due to being unregulated it has all kinds of disturbing stuff.
the darknets don’t have this.
- …Yet. Surely that’s the next destruction target, though.
Better get to that quick. Before we move to burn all the rest of the books.
You know you can do both right now…go read a book on the internet under a tree. In fact, I recommend reading Brave New World specifically. It’ll be a good time (no sarcasm).
Underneath a chestnut tree?
I’m tired man
We’re going to PROTECT the CHILDREN by
PROSECUTING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators!GIVING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators ACCESS to your Children!Now they don’t have to wait for you to put your daughter into modeling or beauty contest. They can access her right through your Wi-Fi.
👆
Never about protecting children about fighting privacy and making data collection easier.
Why Comment. There’s like 4 people here. Do you do this often?
You just blow in from Stupid Town?
200 likes. 40 comments. “4 people”
I think your discouraging comment is either written out of spite, or straight up discouraging propaganda.
Neither options are good, so go fuck yourself.
It’s anger.
I went on Facebook earlier. I saw a post in a ‘Lord of The Rings’ group that shared a meme comparing orcs to immigrants. The whole joke was that the orc said “my son was born in the shire therefore he is a hobbit” because you know. Immigrants and refugees.
And then I saw a Bobs Burger group where the main post was the family holding up an anti Trans flag. This stuff is daily. The comments are much worse.
I see this everyday and I partially blame all of you here. So many of you here were the ‘exodus’ people. Convincing every liberal or leftist user to block and ban and remove ourselves from other areas online. Since then everything has become so much worse and even though responsibility is on the poster, I still hold so many of you responsible for quitting when you’re needed the most.
I come here to lemmy to see if anything crazy good is happening and it isn’t. Like 4chan launched whole ass investigations. A bunch of racist morons performed some of the greatest opsec in internet history. Lemmy is posting about beans and moths and I just don’t know what to do beyond being mad at you all.
And I get it, touch grass. But that doesn’t help when I log off and go out only to find that the hatred and toxicity from these major platforms is infecting the whole yard. There’s no escape. And you people who are suppose to be the resistance can’t be fucking bothered. You’re like lulled into this weird quiet existence only to be rallied under the most useless civic action imaginable every 2 years.
I just don’t know what to do other than be mad and angry.
We should be out there. Identifying these networks and the latest strategies being used to corrupt everything. We should be innovating and building protections with fediverse. Instead we got pro China moderation and censorship and bean memes. I don’t know. It’s just defeating.
Why comment something like this when you can literally see how many subs there are on this community (85.8k by the way)?
Do you do this often? Show your idiocy, I mean…
They’re preparing for civil unrest.
