"If Congress wants to hold tech companies liable, there’s a ton of low-hanging fruit. The United States is embarrassingly behind in data-privacy protections. That means that right now, it’s profitable for tech companies to spy on kids and teens and micro-target them with addictive and damaging content. If it wasn’t profitable, they would be pressured to move on to different, less harmful business models."

#SarahPhilips, 2023

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth

#US #BigTech #DataFarming #ChildAbuse

"A day later, AO3 [Archive of Our Own] was back online, but concerns have lingered: What would happen if fan communities, especially queer fandoms that are lifelines for young LGBTQ+ people, ceased to exist? And it turns out, one of the most worrisome threats facing sites like AO3 isn’t a small outfit of cyberattackers, it’s the United States government."

#SarahPhilips, 2023

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth

#censorship #OnlineCommunity #KOSA #US #LGBTQ+