[9] President Joe Biden endorsed KOSA when it was reintroduced in 2023 and congratulated the Senate for passing it the following year. [10] President Joe Biden pushed Congress to pass legislation to protect children online during his 2023 State of the Union Address, leading Blackburn and Blumenthal to reintroduce KOSA in the Senate on May 2 ...

2024年4月9日 · To protect the safety of children on the internet.

2023年5月2日 · Further, the bill requires the commission to seek to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the risks of harm to minors by the use of social media and other online platforms. The bill establishes a council to advise on implementing the bill.

2025年1月1日 · KOSA, first introduced in 2022, would allow the Federal Trade Commission to sue apps and websites that don’t take measures to restrict young people’s access to content. Congress introduced a number of versions of the bill this year, and we analyzed each of them.

Online Safety Act (KOSA; S. 1409). On September 18, 2024, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce ordered an amended House version of KOSA to be reported (H.R. 7891). This In Focus summarizes Title I of S. 2073, compares it with the amended version of H.R. 7891, and provides considerations for Congress. Summary of S. 2073 – Title I

2024年12月9日 · Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have negotiated updated text for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) with Elon Musk’s social media platform X in an effort to quell...

2024年4月9日 · KOSA will help keep kids safe by outlawing manipulative design practices, amplification of harmful content, and damaging design features that can lead to mental anguish, eating disorders, physical violence and suicide.

2024年12月12日 · Congress is closer than ever to passing the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which aims to protect children by requiring tech companies to prioritize safety over profit in platform design, but urgent action is needed to overcome opposition from powerful tech lobbies and finalize the legislation.

2024年9月18日 · The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has advanced two high-profile child safety bills that could remake large parts of the internet: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and...

KOSA requires the platforms to affirmatively mitigate key harms — such as specific mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors, addiction, bullying, sexual exploitation, and the sale of illicit drugs to minors — through their design and operations