In a letter to Congress on Monday, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for them to pass the Kids Online Safety Act.
Sanders addressed the letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and said that she has seen firsthand the rise in mental illness among the younger generation.
“I am writing in support of the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a critical piece of legislation to ensure our kids’ safety online,” Sanders wrote. “I am the Governor of Arkansas, but I am also a mom to three, and I have seen firsthand the alarming rise in mental illness among my kids’ generation.”
The governor wrote that major tech companies know their algorithms are harming kids and it’s time for lawmakers to act.
“Big Tech companies know their algorithms are harming kids. They have been given chance after chance to fix the problem themselves; now, it is time for lawmakers to take action,” the governor wrote. “These companies are spending millions of dollars lobbying against legislation that installs commonsense safeguards on their platforms, and millions more suing states like Arkansas that take preventative steps to protect kids. It is time for a federal fix to this nationwide problem.”
“The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998 — before Facebook, before the iPhone and long before today’s oldest teenagers were born,” the report said.
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