‘We Have A Crisis In America’: Ed Markey Highlights Importance Of Protecting Kids Online
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) spoke about
the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act.
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00:00Senator Markey, thank you. Thank you. Thank you to Senator Shuler for moving this legislation, for the leadership which he is giving to this all-important subject.
00:15Thanks to Dick Blumenthal. And I want to thank Bill Cassidy, my Republican co-sponsor of the Child and Teen Online Privacy Protection Act.
00:26We have a crisis in America. There's no bill more important than this bill for our country right now. According to the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, two years ago, one in three teenage girls contemplated suicide.
00:43One in ten teenage girls in the United States attempted suicide two years ago. One in five LGBTQ youth attempted suicide two years ago in our country.
00:57The CDC points the finger at social media as a big contributor to the mental health crisis in teenagers and children in our country.
01:07The Surgeon General has now issued a Surgeon General's report pointing the finger at social media as a big part of this crisis in America amongst young people.
01:18Parents know it. The teenagers themselves know it. So what my legislation does is it lifts the age up to age 17 to be given protections.
01:31And the protections are, number one, if a teenage girl goes online to get information about bulimia, there cannot be a targeted ad now coming back from dozens, hundreds of companies towards that girl.
01:45That's prohibited. No targeted ads towards these teenagers, these vulnerable kids, these children in our society.
01:53Number two, the teenager or the parent can say erase all information that you gathered about my child. Erase it. That post was a mistake.
02:07I want it all erased. Not just deleted by the kid, but erased from the whole history of the country.
02:14Number three, no gathering of information in the first place without permission from the parents and the kids.
02:23You've got to get permission to gather all this data because it's all about data. That's what all these companies are about.
02:28Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. Without information, they can't do anything else.
02:35So this is a historic bill. And again, I thank Chuck Schumer for doing it on a bipartisan basis completely.
02:44Because AI is going to take what we have today and put it on steroids.
02:50So they have a plan to even further accelerate the exploitation of the children in our country.
02:57And this is our plan to give protections to those teenage children and their parents.
03:03So it's a historic day today and our hope is that the House will move as well so that we can put this bill on bipartisan basis.