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What Next TBD: Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe Online?

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Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act has noble-sounding intentions, but has been called one of the most dangerous bills in years by the digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Guest: Richard Blumenthal, senior United States senator from Connecticut.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were liars.

0:07.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:09.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on

0:28.9

Prime Video. For a while now, Washington has been wrestling with two big forces shaping technology,

0:39.9

social media and artificial intelligence.

0:42.8

Should they be regulated?

0:44.4

Who should do it?

0:45.3

And how?

0:46.6

Right now, Congress is considering a bill that would regulate how social media companies treat minors,

0:53.2

the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as COSA.

0:58.6

Although it has bipartisan support, COSA is not without controversy. Several critics have called it

1:05.3

government censorship. And one group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says it is, quote, one of the most dangerous bills in years.

1:14.5

One of COSA sponsors is Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal.

1:18.8

I spoke with him on Friday about the bill, as well as his newly announced framework to regulate AI.

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