The Senate Commerce Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to advance the Kids Online Safety Act, a key measure that would require companies to develop online platforms with children’s safety in mind — but offered few signs that Congress has reached consensus on the debate about how to protect young people on the internet.
The measure, championed by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), would increase protections for minors’ data and require platforms to give users the option to opt out of personalized algorithms.
“We’re sending a message to Big Tech that the era of Big Tech profiting off of our children is over,” Blackburn said during the committee markup...
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