.Jason Kint hitting the nail on the f%*$ing head with this:

“NetChoice leading with Apple, but then burying that Meta and TikTok are members in a hearing focused on social media harms sort of says it all.”

Proud of Ava! She will lead the charge for young people at the House E&C subcommittee hearing on data privacy and online safety on Wednesday.

Mark your calendar! 📆

This Wednesday at 10AM ET, we're so thrilled to see our coalition member, Ava from Young People's Alliance, speak before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on policy to protect kids online. energycommerce.house.gov/events/innovat…

.LOG OFF has launched their first chapter at Washington University in St. Louis!

We're so proud of coalition member Emma Lembke! Her experience uniquely qualifies her to lead conversations on how young people can practice digital wellness.

This *IS* this start of a movement. And we're building it. We're fighting to ensure our stories of social media's harms are at the forefront when lawmakers work on bills to regulate these platforms.

You in? thenation.com/article/archiv…

Minimum age limits are meaningless unless platforms enforce their own policies.
Effective regulation is needed urgently to help keep children safe online.

A total renunciation of the online world is neither pragmatic nor necessary. But an assertion of collective power is.
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Love to see it

My son, a sophomore at Middlebury College, joins the fight against social media with this piece in The Nation -- which is increasingly both a truly bipartisan fight (the KOSA bill just dropped in the House yesterday), and an intergenerational one.

Minnesota lawmakers debate tighter rules for tech companies over content that could harm kids #MNKidsCode mprnews.org/story/2024/04/…

Snap so often flies under the radar, but it’s responsible for some appalling product decisions - a friend-popularity matrix aimed at children being the latest. Child wellbeing is yet again a secondary issue techcrunch.com/2024/04/05/sna…

PRESS RELEASE: Design It For Us Applauds House Introduction of Kids’ Online Safety and Privacy Legislation, Urges Swift Vote designitforus.org/press/design-i…

Eid Mubarak ☪️

Eid Mubarak ☪️

We are grateful to U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and Gus Bilirakis for introducing a House companion to the Kids Online Safety Act. We're ready to see this cross the finish line!
castor.house.gov/news/documents…

This has been a long time coming. We’re so grateful to U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and Gus Bilirakis who have worked alongside Richard Blumenthal and Sen. Marsha Blackburn to introduce a House companion to the Kids Online Safety Act.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

SCOOP: A bipartisan group of House members is introducing companion legislation to a major Senate bill -- the Kids' Online Safety Act.

The measure would require social media companies to prevent harms to kids on their platforms.

Story for Bloomberg Government: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

#COPPA 2.0 got a House companion!!

We're still governed by the original COPPA, which was signed in 1998. Technology has changed since then. Shouldn't our laws change too? markey.senate.gov/news/press-rel…

🚨 BREAKING: Today, RFOB, along with more than 200 civil-society organizations, researchers & journalists have sent a letter to leading social-media platforms calling on them to protect democratic elections worldwide in 2024.

Naomi Nix

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We're so thrilled to host a Tech Justice webinar TODAY at 6:30 ET with Voters of Tomorrow and Public Citizen!

Sign up to learn how young people can make their voices heard on tech issues through an intersectional lens. mobilize.us/votersoftomorr…