by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – The United States Senate on Tuesday (July 30) voted overwhelmingly to approve bipartisan legislation intended to protect children from dangerous online content and hold tech companies to better account for harm suffered by minors on the internet, CBS News reports.
Passed 91-3, the “Kids Online Safety Act: was written and introduced by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. The legislation was prepared in response to pleas from parents whose children committed suicide as a result of online bullying or other dangerous content, CBS said.
The bill places a “duty of care” on tech companies, requiring them to take “reasonable” steps to prevent harm on online platforms frequently used by minors.
“The message we are sending to big tech is that kids are not your product,” Sen. Blackburn said during a press briefing Tuesday. “Kids are not your profit source,” she said.
Sen. Blumenthal of Connecticut added that the bill’s message to tech companies is: “We no longer trust you to make decisions for us.”
The bill must be approved by the US House of Representatives before it can be signed into law by the President. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La said Tuesday that he was “committed to working to find consensus” but had not decided whether to bring the legislation to the House floor for a vote, CBS News reports.
Copyright 1999-2024 Worthy News. This article was originally published on Worthy News and was reproduced with permission.
Latest Stories from Worthy News
Iran has canceled plans to attack Israel following Donald J. Trump’s victory in the recent U.S. presidential elections, Israeli and Iranian officials say.
Hundreds gathered in the center of Amsterdam Thursday to rally against rising antisemitism after the Dutch capital’s first pogrom since World War Two and an attack on pro-Israel group Christenen voor Israel (‘Christians for Israel’).
The Biden administration is moving forward with a $680 million arms package to Israel, including thousands of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits and hundreds of small-diameter bombs, a U.S. official confirmed Wednesday, as reported by the Financial Times.
A confidential clause in the U.S.-Israel side agreement to the Lebanon ceasefire, known as the “Iranian clause” and reportedly focusing on Iran, was a key element of Israel’s acceptance of the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon.
The well-known Jewish neighborhood of Hendon in London, England, has been targeted with leaflets containing the words “Every Zionist needs to leave Britain or be slaughtered,” GB News reported on Wednesday, November 27. The message was written in both English and Hebrew.