What are the bills lawmakers keep bringing up?
- The Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, seeks to create liability, or a “duty of care,” for apps and online platforms that recommend content to minors that can negatively affect their mental health.
- The STOP CSAM Act. CSAM refers to child sexual abuse material. The bill would allow victims of online sexual exploitation to sue social media platforms that promoted or facilitated the abuse and make it easier for victims to ask tech companies to remove CSAM.
- The EARN IT Act. EARN stands for eliminating abusive and rampant neglect of interactive technologies act. The bill would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention.
- The SHIELD ACT. SHIELD stands for stopping harmful image exploitation and limiting distribution. It “ensures that federal prosecutors have appropriate and effective tools to address the nonconsensual distribution of sexual imagery,” the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote on its landing page for protecting children online.
- The Project Safe Childhood Act would “modernizes the investigation and prosecution of online child exploitation crimes,” the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote.
We’ve heard a lot about how this issue is urgent across the aisle, and so far the senators seem aligned.
“We’ve found common ground here that just is astonishing,” Graham said.
A strong moment with Durbin pressing Discord’s CEO about sexual content on its platform.
Discord’s Citron said his goal was to get explicit content that violates its policies off the platform.
“Mr Citron, if that were working we wouldn’t be here today,” Durbin said to audible ooohs from the crowd.
Graham pushed TikTok CEO Chew on the resignation of a TikTok employee in Israel who had alleged that the company was platforming antisemitism.
Chew said he was aware of the resignation.
“Pro-Hamas content and hate speech not allowed on our platform,” the CEO added.
Graham grilled the Discord and X CEOs about the company’s…
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