The app store is the enforcement mechanism kids’ safety needs

The House just passed the KIDS Act, and they managed to strip out the one provision that actually mattered. Duty of care is gone. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), the two senators who spent four years building the Kids Online Safety Act, are now calling the House’s own bill dead on arrival. This is the same fight that has killed every version of KOSA since 2022, and it will keep killing every version until Congress stops trying to solve this problem from the wrong end of the pipe.Duty of care asks platforms to design their products responsibly for minors, but a duty only means something if you can enforce it, and it is impossible to do so if you cannot reliably tell who a minor is.

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