This is a pretty fucking awful bill
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/young-people-should-oppose-kids-online-safety-act" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/young-people-should-op...</a><p>HN is now subject to astroturfers? The comments in here are insane
I am a huge fan of the Kids Online Safety Act, and if you aren't employed by Meta then you should be to.<p>Social media algorithmic recommendations and "addictive product features" have to be turned off BY DEFAULT. Social media companies are responsible for not showing content to minors that promotes suicide, eating disorders, substance abuse, sexual exploitation, tobacco, or alcohol.<p>I think Internet Age Verification is both doomed to failure and also a terrible idea from a privacy perspective, but KOSA does not introduce age verification requirements.<p>We need to reign in social media companies that are targeting children.
Related discussion on KOSA: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36885040">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36885040</a>