Victory for Children! U.S. Senate Passes Online Child Protection Bill

LOS ANGELES (July 30, 2024) – The Parents Television and Media Council said it is a victory for families and children that the U.S. Senate passed the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act.

“We commend the Senate for recognizing the real harms to children online and acting with urgency to ensure that tech platforms are held accountable for protecting our children. Tech platforms have seen children as an audience to profit from instead of a group to protect from known harms like predators, sexual exploitation, sexually explicit and other harmful content. Now the U.S. House must follow the Senate’s lead and pass this bill,” Melissa Henson, Vice President, Parents Television and Media Council.

The Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act is a combination of the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act 2.0, and is designed to hold social media companies accountable and establish a duty of care for protecting children online, along with expanding privacy protections to teens and for children under age 13.