.fightfortheftr's evan_greer urged Congress to 'pass real laws that rein in the abuses of Big Tech & protect everyone's privacy & human rights rather than using kids as pawns to advance poorly drafted legislation in order to score political points.'
to Congress that while"privacy, online safety, and digital well-being of children should be protected," proposed legislation intended to do so would instead negatively impact all internet users.
Specifically, the letter says that the Kids Online Safety Act "would undermine those goals for all people, but especially children, by effectively forcing providers to use invasive filtering and monitoring tools; jeopardizing private, secure communications; incentivizing increased data collection on children and adults; and undermining the delivery of critical services to minors by public agencies like schools.
The"damaging" potential impacts of this requirement, the letter notes, include limiting"access to critical information such as sex education or resources for LGBTQ+ youth" and online services facing"substantial pressure to over-moderate, including from state attorneys general seeking to make political points about what kind of information is appropriate for young people.
"Finally, KOSA's provisions may also unduly burden and even undermine the work of key institutions that serve minors, including schools," the letter stresses, highlighting that"students increasingly use a wide range of technology in school settings, through learning platforms, student information systems, online gradebooks, parental portals, and tools for sharing student data with other governmental entities to determine eligibility for benefits.
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