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Blake C. Stacey
Blake C. Stacey
@bstacey@icosahedron.website  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

The House committee markup for #KOSA will be this Thursday morning.

https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/guthrie-kids-online/

Punchbowl News

Tech: Guthrie readies kids’ package for markup

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie will introduce a legislative package that combines a dozen bills aimed at protecting kids online.
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Blake C. Stacey
Blake C. Stacey
@bstacey@icosahedron.website  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

The House committee markup for #KOSA will be this Thursday morning.

https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/guthrie-kids-online/

Punchbowl News

Tech: Guthrie readies kids’ package for markup

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie will introduce a legislative package that combines a dozen bills aimed at protecting kids online.
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Blake C. Stacey
Blake C. Stacey
@bstacey@icosahedron.website  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

The markup on Thursday for #KOSA and related bills is looking to be a fustercluck. #KOSA got stapled together into a superbill (the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act) with other pieces of proposed legislation, including the SCREEN Act (age verification imposed for all adult sites). The Republicans are insisting on a version of #KOSA that is less of a neutron bomb than the Senate version, thanks to lacking the "duty of care" provision. It also differs from the Senate version when it comes to pre-empting state laws. Compare sec. 221 there with Title III of the Senate version:

https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/H_R_7757_Kids_Internet_and_Digital_Safety_Act_8850eda43f.pdf

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s1748/text/is#link=III&nearest=id2b40278570bb4e8c9675f97537351b7e

Both of these changes would make for a better (though still bad) law, and I believe that both are opposed by the Democrats, who are gung-ho for Helen Lovejoy action.

I heard about this development here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalOptimism/comments/1ri8hac/censorship_megathread_xxxviii_judge_blocks/?sort=new

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Text of S. 1748: Kids Online Safety Act (Introduced version) - GovTrack.us

Text of S. 1748: Kids Online Safety Act as of May 14, 2025 (Introduced version). S. 1748: Kids Online Safety Act
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