The Kids Online Safety Act is back, with the potential to change the internet

Kids Online Protection Act (KOSA) has been re -introduced to the Congress. If the law is passed, this bill can impose some significant legal changes that have been seen in the United States from the United States of the United States from the online privacy protection law (COPPA) of 1998.

As it is currently standing, Cosa will be able to make social media platforms legally accountable if it is proved that these companies are not doing enough to protect the minors from damage. The bill includes a long list of possible losses such as eating disorders, sexual absorption, substance abuse and suicide. Although it is Pass The bill was suppressed in the house last year through the Senate.

Cosa has been facing Many Backlash From its role in 2022.

Human rights groups like ACLU raised concerns that the bill could be weapons as censorship and surveillance equipment. Although the Cosa revisions have reduced some of these concerns, groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Fighting for the Future remain against the bill.

“Bill’s authors have repeatedly claimed that this bill does not affect the lecture. But the care of the care is about speech: it is about blocking the speech that the government believes that the children are bad,” wrote at the Fight for the Future for Future StatementThe “And people who will determine what speech is harmful? They use each tool to silence marginal communities and attack the enemies as enemies.”

However Kosa has achieved the support of companies like it Microsoft, SnapAnd X; X CEO Linda Yackerino Even Work with The recent draft of the bill is Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Bloomantal (D-CT). Has opposed Google and Meta Bill, however Apple Today it has announced that it will support the law.

“Apple is pleased to give us support for children’s online security law (Kosa). Everyone has a role in keeping the kids online and we believe that [this] The law will have a meaningful impact on children’s online protection, ”said Timothy Powder, senior director of Apple’s official affairs affairs. StatementThe