The US Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act by a vote of 91 to 3; the bills now head to the House
It's Our Last Chance To Stop It Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post : Senate passes landmark bills to protect kids online, raising pressure on House Maya C. Miller / New York Times : Senate Passes Child Online Safety Bill, Sending It to an Uncertain House Fate Casey Newton / Platformer : KOSA and COPPA 2.0 pass the Senate Suzanne Smalley / The Record : Senate passes landmark bill protecting children's online safety and privacy Cecilia Kang / New York Times : How the Kids Online Safety Act Was Dragged Into a Political War Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Senate To Kids: We'll Listen To You When You Agree With Us On KOSA Rand Paul / Courier-Journal : KOSA is not the solution for protecting children from social media Marie Dealessandri / GamesIndustry.biz : US Senate passes online child safety bills Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : US Senate approves landmark bills to protect children online Skye Jacobs / TechSpot : Senate passes sweeping online child safety measures amid free speech concerns SecurityWeek : Senate Passes Bill To Protect Kids Online And Make Tech Companies Accountable For Harmful Content NBC News : Senate poised to pass the most significant child online safety bills in decades Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press : Senate set to pass bill designed to protect kids from dangerous online content Jenna Leventoff› / ACLU : ACLU Slams Senate Passage of Kids Online Safety Act, Urges House to Protect Free Speech Reuters : US Senate passes major online child safety reforms which face uncertain fate in House Rebecca Klar / The Hill : Senate passes long-awaited bills to boost online safety, privacy for kids Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg Law : Senate Passes Landmark Legislation to Protect Children Online Maria Curi / Axios : Senate easily passes kids online safety package NBC News : Blackburn and Blumenthal promote bill to protect kids from ‘harmful content’ online William Gavin / Quartz : Big tech is ready to fight ‘bulletproof’ bill meant to protect kids online Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : KOSA passed the Senate today, which means we're a step closer to the government pressuring sites like this one to remove legal speech https://www.platformer.news/ ... [image] X: Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal : It will be the first internet safety reform in nearly three decades—a resounding bipartisan achievement showing democracy still works. 5 Vice President Kamala Harris / @vp : I applaud the Senate for passing the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act today. This bipartisan legislation will help protect children's mental health, safety, and privacy online... Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal : THREAD: This moving & historic day marks a major win for our children. Anyone who doubted whether we'd reach this milestone has never met our advocates—the parents who have lost children & the young people who refused to be treated like Big Tech piggy banks. 1/ [image] Trace Mitchell / @tracethelaw : KOSA is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It will chill First Amendment protected speech and make the internet a worse place for everyone. The American people deserve better, and @RandPaul is standing up against this unconstitutional, poorly designed bill! Sen. Marsha Blackburn / @marshablackburn : For far too long, Big Tech has gone unchecked, and we've seen the negative effects of social media on our children. With 91 Senators voting in favor and overwhelming support from parents, stakeholders & over 240 organizations, we know that KOSA is needed now more than ever. @judiciarydems : BREAKING: Senate overwhelmingly passes the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act, which will go a long way to making the internet safer for children. @senatorshoshana : Thank you @RandPaul @RonWyden @BasedMikeLee for voting no on KOSA! So many constitutional problems and will open up opportunity for censorship and a LOT of child identity theft. https://www.rstreet.org/... no way around identity verification for a bill requiring child-parent auth Frank Thorp V / @frankthorp : NEWS: Senate votes 91-3 to PASS a package of kids online safety bills: the Kid's Online Safety ACT (KOSA) and Children's and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) The package now goes to the House, where its fate is uncertain. NO VOTES: Wyden Rand Paul Mike Lee Paris Martineau / @parismartineau : the Senate just passed the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0 by a landslide. the proposed legislation now moves to the House. if they become law, the bills would be the first comprehensive federal regulation the tech industry has seen in decades [image] Sen. Marsha Blackburn / @marshablackburn : 🚨 BREAKING — The Kids Online Safety Act has passed the U.S. Senate and will now head to the House for consideration. After years of championing this bipartisan legislation with @SenBlumenthal, I am thrilled that we are one step closer to seeing KOSA signed into law. [image] Sen. Marsha Blackburn / @marshablackburn : I'd like to thank my colleagues and the countless parents and organizations that have helped get this landmark legislation across the finish line. Our work is not done yet. KOSA must be signed into law. @eff : KOSA, just passed by the Senate 91-3, will allow politicians and federal commissioners to decide what Americans should read and watch online. It's a blatant attack on our free speech. https://www.eff.org/... Rand Paul / @randpaul : Voting on KOSA today. Government mandates and censorship will not protect children online. The internet may pose new problems but there is an age old solution to this issue. Free minds & parental guidance are the best means to protect our children online. https://www.courier-journal.com/ ... Chuck Schumer / @senschumer : BREAKING: The Senate kept its promise to parents and passed the Kids Online Safety Act “KOSA” and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act “COPPA 2.0” The most important update to federal laws protecting kids on the internet in decades The House must pass them now LinkedIn: Lennon Torres : I am sick of Big Tech using LGBTQ+ youth to further their own agenda. I am a trans woman and here is my response to The New York Times' recent article: … Dr. Ashwin Vasan : Great news for young people, parents everywhere, and for those of us fighting to create safer social media NOW. … Hari Ravichandran : Today marks a milestone for online safety and for families everywhere. The passage of KOSA and COPPA 2.0 marks a major advance in protecting our kids. … Forums: r/privacy : Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act r/Defeat_Project_2025 : Kosa passed Senate call your house reps r/stupidpol : Kids Online Safety Act passes Senate despite concerns it will harm kids r/centrist : Senate passes bill to protect kids online, make tech companies accountable for harmful content r/technology : Senate passes landmark bills to protect kids online, raising pressure on House r/technology : How the Kids Online Safety Act Was Dragged Into a Political War