Senate faces uphill battle on child online safety laws

This is not a responsibility of Congress!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s the parents responsibility.

How many parents monitor their children's online activity. It is the parent who needs to be in control of what children have access to.

the future going to get dangerous if they don’t do anything to protect the kids and adults as well

Justice for Hind Rajab, Rachel Corrie, … 14,000 children.

How about prosecuting these bullies and the parents that failed to raise them right?!

I feel sorry for that mother but we cannot let bad legislation infringe on freedom of speech. No matter how bad that taste is. Save the kiddies legislation is always suspect in its nature. Parents are responsible for their children, that's where the responsibility lies not government intervention into free speech.

Anything that the government offers to"help", will do just the opposite. Sounds like more government oversight

So if your kid is getting bullied on a 'social media' platform, why not take away the platform access? Sounds like lazy parenting to me.

It's never about protecting kids, it's about profits & power.

You parents do that job. Don’t give your kid access to these things. I see parents in my circle do it and their kids are doing great. There should be laws pushing parents to do what they should. Do your job and don’t blame the government or push that job on to others.

Parents need to stop passing off their responsibilities onto the government.

I don’t think that it should involve censorship, it should involve ALL preying on data. Not just kids’ data

"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help"

Tell your congressperson, you do not want to give up your freedom so parents don’t have to be responsible for their own children! Very good software already exist for parents that wish to protect their children.

Old age is the problem with Congress. They need to go away and let the Young Americans help to understand these critical issues.

Parents need to stop letting smart devices raise their children. TALK TO YOUR KIDS!!!!

The parents are to blame

Not all kids need protection. This is way too heavy-handed. In a lot of cases we're not protecting kids. We're protecting parents.

Why am I supposed to pay the federal government my taxes to do stuff I should already doing to protect my kids?

Yes parents should be monitoring what their kids are doing on their phones/online. As bad as things have gotten, yes there should be even more strict control over social media and other sites if allowing kids and younger teens on their site. or don't allow them at all and ask for ID verification. Even more importantly they should be introducing restrictions against mommy vloggers posting exploitative content of their kids working for their family vlog channels online. All the money made off views goes to their parents' profit. No Coogan type of law is in place, so the kids featured in videos get nothing when they turn 18 unless they get lucky & their parents saved some of the money for them. Otherwise if the parents aren't setting aside money for the kids to have in the future they're essentially children working for free since there are no set limitations &/or guidelines pertaining to the children being filmed for family channel content/$$$$