Big Tech Spent $90 Million to Stop Online Kid Safety Bill
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 17 November 2024 10:44 AM EST
The Senate-passed Kids Online Safety Act is reportedly facing Big Tech opposition seeking to sow discord between conservatives and progressives by leveraging culture-war issues like gender and sex dysphoria and abortion to stop the bill in the narrowly divided House.
"On the left and the right, they've tried to say whatever the cultural red flag is," Issue One's Alix Fraser told the Journal, who leads a group seeking to reduce lobbyist influence in politics.
Big Tech giants Meta and Alphabet's Google have poured nearly $90 million the past three years in lobbying tied to related topics to avoid regulations and mandates outlined in the Senate's Online Kid Safety Bill crafted by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
The nearly $90 million total is an estimate because the lobbyists are required to disclose the efforts they are lobbying for but not the amounts spent, according to the report.
The bill is designed to protect America's children and teens on social media who might be victimized by bullying, mental-health disorders, addiction-like behaviors, and sexual exploitation.
But Big Tech opposition is against the "duty of care" component that puts legal onus if not accountability and liability on social media companies, according to the Journal.
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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/kids-safety-online/2024/11/17/id/1188372/
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