From the Editorial Board: Let’s hope Congress has found new energy and fruitful reasons to seek a working consensus to help protect our most vulnerable population: our children.
People hold photos of their children during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online safety for children on Feb. 14, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Given that Stevens led the Senate committee responsible for regulating the rising new technology, his metaphor was widely ridiculed as an example of how little Washington leaders knew about the rapacious technology they were expected to regulate. President Joe Biden has a different idea. In his State of the Union address, he unveiled a tech agenda focused on protecting the privacy of children and teens online.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, said that she and Blumenthal will be reintroducing the Kids Online Safety Act, which would have given children under 16 tools to prevent the amplification of harmful content on social media platforms and their parents the ability to limit their kids’ usage of those platforms.
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