Sen. Marsha Blackburn renewing push for online safety bill

A new fight led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will prioritize the safety of kids online.

The bill is called “Kids Online Safety Act” (KOSA) and it has already gained a lot of traction!

Now, the CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, has publicly endorsed the bill, urging Congress to pass it.

Yaccarino made a post on X that has turned heads.

“At X, protecting our children is our top priority. As I’ve always said, freedom of speech and safety can and must coexist. And as a mother, it’s personal. When X testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last January, we committed to working with Congress on child safety legislation,” Yaccarino began.

“We’ve heard the pleas of parents and youth advocates who seek sensible guardrails across online platforms, and the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) addresses that need. After working with the bill authors, I’m proud to share that we’ve made progress to further protect freedom of speech while maintaining safety for minors online, the CEO of X continued.

Yaccarino then gave a big shout out to Senator Blackburn and said X urges “Congress and the House to pass the Kids Online Safety Act this year.”

Blackburn was quick to respond to Yaccarino’s powerful post.

“Led by X, the new changes made to the Kids Online Safety Act strengthen the bill while safeguarding free speech online and ensuring it is not used to stifle expression. These changes should eliminate once and for all the false narrative that this bill would be weaponized by unelected bureaucrats to censor Americans,” Senator Blackburn began.

“We thank Elon and Linda for their bold leadership and commitment to protecting children online and for helping us get this bill across the finish line this Congress. We appreciate that this endorsement and revised text reflects their publicly stated goal of furthering free speech without fear of censorship,” Blackburn continued.

“We reiterate X’s call to pass KOSA by the end of the year — it is clear that this legislation has overwhelming support from Congress,” Blackburn concluded in her post on X.

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