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Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media. (indusbusinessjournal.com)
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Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media.::San Francisco– Google has asked the US Congress not to ban teenagers from social media, urging lawmakers to drop problematic protections like age-verification technology. The tech giant released its ‘Legislative Framework to Protect Children and Teens Online’ that came as more lawmakers, like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), pushed for the Kids Online Safety Act, a …

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeaaahhh... Have you been missing all of the news around KOSA? Google is a broken clock in this instance. KOSA is another one of those, "we'll use the kids to ban what we don't like" kinda laws. Wikipedia has a general overview of the criticism against it. The gist of it is that it's not only limited to social media, and it's worded vaguely enough that it gives the states the power to decide what's harmful for children.

Can you guess who's the most excited about it and why?

[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm very disappointed that Warren is even part of this. Would be huge giveaway to pro-birthers and anti-equality people.