Recently passed laws in Utah and Arkansas laws aren’t about tech accountability or children’s safety, write youth activists Emma Lembke and Zamaan Qureshi.
But let’s be very clear – the Utah and Arkansas laws aren’t about tech accountability or children’s safety; theyresponsibility to create products that are safe for children and instead puts the onus on parents to vigilantly monitorThe perversions of unregulated social media aren’t kids’ fault – or the fault of our parents.
We need to establish standards that make platforms safer, not keep us off of them. We can’t expect to solve these problems by ignoring what is causing them – Big Tech – and we can’t create truly effective policy without centering the groups most impacted by that policy – us.The right approach is to design platforms with young people in mind, and that’s why we support the Age Appropriate Design Code , which has alreadyand nations like the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
The AADC puts the responsibility for the tech-induced mental health crisis squarely where it should be – on the tech companies – rather than the kids and parents who are living with the consequences of the tech companies’ misdeeds.The law is already making a difference. In the UK, TikTok has turned off strangers’ ability to message kids, Google turned on safe search by default, and YouTube disabled autoplay by default for users under the age of 18.
All young people deserve these protections – not just in the places where it’s already law – which is why state by state, we are fighting to pass the AADC to provide fair and consistent rules for the protection of kids online.Lawmakers need to pivot from overly simplistic proposals like Utah and Arkansas’ parental consent laws that do the opposite of what’s intended and toward solutions that force Big Tech to design platforms for us.
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