The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee is taking the time to look at these bills separately, it’s still impossible to ignore the message...
  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    20 days ago

    There is a better way. Instead of considering these bills, the Senate Commerce Committee should be focusing on a national consumer privacy bill that would protect ALL internet users, or on banning behavioral advertising that tracks us across the web—again, for users of all ages.

    But the bills being considered this week move in the other direction—more information being collected, more surveillance, and less privacy for internet users of all ages.

    Acting like more surveillance isn’t the entire point. They always use the “think of the children” excuse with these kinds of censorship bills.

    If they actually cared at all, these bills would be getting laughed out of the writer’s room.