Comment on 'Kids Online Safety Act' will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.

• primbin@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Section 3a of the bill is the part that would be used to target LGBTQ content.

  Sections 4 talks about adding better parental controls which would give general statistics about what their kids are doing online, without parents being able to see/helicopter in on exaxrlt what their kids were looking at. It also would force sites to give children safe defaults when they create a profile, including the ability to disable personalized recommendations, placing limitations on dark patterns designed to manipulate children to stay on platforms for longer, making their information private by default, and limiting others’ ability to find and message them without the consent of children. Notably, these settings would all be optional, but enabled by default for children/users suspected to be children.

  I think the regulations described in section 4 would mostly be good things. They’re the types of settings that I’d prefer to use on my online accounts, at least. However, the bad outweighs the good here, and the content in section 3a is completely unacceptable.

  Funnily enough, I had to read through the bill twice, and only caught on to how bad section 3a was on my second time reading it.

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  • elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the regulations described in section 4 would mostly be good things. They’re the types of settings that I’d prefer to use on my online accounts, at least.

    Then put them on your accounts. Any regulation in this area is unacceptable.

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• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know that it does. If bills and the discourse around them were actually about the stated topic, it would be revolutionary to politics.

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