KOSA Clears Senate Panel With 76 Cosponsors as Duty-of-Care Fight Clouds Final Passage
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Updated · CNBC · Aug 5
KOSA Clears Senate Panel With 76 Cosponsors as Duty-of-Care Fight Clouds Final Passage
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Aug 5
Summary
A Senate Commerce Committee vote on Wednesday pushed the Kids Online Safety Act forward again, keeping alive a bipartisan child-safety bill that already has 76 Senate cosponsors.
The Senate version would impose a duty of care on platforms such as Meta, Snapchat and TikTok, require parental controls and study social media's effects on children's well-being.
That provision is also the main fault line with the House, which passed a broader online-safety package in June without the duty-of-care language, drawing sharp criticism from KOSA's Senate sponsors.
Civil-liberties groups including the ACLU and FIRE still oppose versions of the bill on privacy and censorship grounds, while the shrinking pre-election calendar and August recess leave little time to reconcile the chambers.