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.
God this sucks ass
Dems are not, never have been, never will be our friends! Wake up! https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s1748/cosponsors
Keep in mind that people refusing to choose the less of the two evils are directly responsible for the current state of the US.
Does it suck? Yes. Should you let them do this without protesting it, just because they are dems? No. But refusing to choose the lesser evil is way, way worse.
I agree with Ralph Nader, whom Democrats vilified: if you choose the lesser of two evils, you have still chosen evil.
Indeed. Better to not vote, offer no better alternative, let the greater evil win and be smug about it. Ralph Nader sure got things figured out…
That’s why Democrats sidelined him, Kucinich, Wellstone (well he had a mysterious plane crash), etc etc. Somehow Bernie survived, but moved right, as did AOC. And Ms Dani is the magical Trump whisperer, who threw his wife under the bus.
Is that better than directly allowing the way worse evil to win, by letting it get majority due to your inaction, that they would not have otherwise?
If there is such a huge difference between the lesser, and worse evils, letting the worse one win, giving it free reign to do a lot of vile shit with the world that definitely would not have happened otherwise, still be better?
I’m not saying it doesn’t suck, but putting your head in the sand out of principle has literally led to the situation US is in right now.
People who don’t endorse the democrats generally advocate for other means of political action, such as worker unions, tenant unions, local organizing, etc. Now if they do mean “just don’t vote” I agree with you though, that’s not gonna solve anything either
The sociopath who doesn’t let the mask slip and slowly increases the heat under the pan of water is far more dangerous. Look. At. History.
You helped me realize that I’ll just vote for the real thing when I have 2 options on front of me… whatever it may be.
I called this out all the time, but nobody listened.
This is partly why I’m hated on the Fediverse, having been banned from 2 Mastodon instances, and having a PieFed account wiped clean… simply because I hadn’t chosen evil.
Bill passes with bipartisan support
You: this is because you didn’t vote for one of the two parties that supported the bill
My point wasn’t about this bill, but that the fact that this bill has passed, it’s not a reason not to support one of the two parties that supported this bill.
That was the “keep in mind” part of the comment, along with the most of the comment.
