‘This Is Congress Being Responsive’: Bill Cassidy Applauds Passage Of Kids Online Safety Act

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During a press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) spoke in support of the Kids Online Safety Act.

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00:00I don't know how many times Senator Markey commented and said, you know, I did this in

00:061998 with Billy Tozan, the representative from Louisiana, whoever that is.

00:12And I say that because I looked around and said, like, a lot of people here won't know

00:15who Billy Tozan is.

00:17Why?

00:18Because you were born after 1998.

00:19My freshman class colleague.

00:20Was he?

00:211980.

00:22Yeah.

00:24Which, a class that will live in infamy.

00:28Yes.

00:2980 Republicans, 19 Democrats.

00:30Nobody thought it was infamy.

00:31It was the Reagan landslide.

00:37And I say that only to drive home the point that since 1998, how much has changed?

00:45LSU, that was five football coaches together ago.

00:52That was, we got one LSU fan there, he understands that.

00:58There was no TikTok.

01:00There was no Facebook.

01:01There was no Google.

01:02None of that had happened.

01:05And yet the good work of Billy Tozan and Ed Markey dated from that point.

01:10Look at the interval change.

01:12This is, if you will, the interval update.

01:15This is taking that age of protection from less than 13 up to 17.

01:23Why?

01:24Because back then we didn't have all this penetrating into the person's mind without

01:29the parents having access to what they were seeing.

01:34But now we do.

01:36And this is Congress being responsive, at its best being responsive both to a societal

01:41need and those of individuals.

01:44Ed mentioned several things.

01:45Again, I just mentioned it increases the age of protection up to 17.

01:49I love that eraser button because every now and then I've noticed teenagers lie once or

01:55twice.

01:56And so they're going to log in.

01:57They're going to fake their age.

01:58They're going to start getting stuff that they shouldn't get.

02:01And this gives mom, this gives dad the ability to, boom, erase it.

02:04And why is this important?

02:06Because everybody in this room knows of somebody, everybody watching knows of somebody who's

02:10had their bulimia, who's had their anxiety, who's had their risk of suicide augmented,

02:17increased.

02:19Think of what the word you want to use because of what's on the internet and the algorithm

02:24just feeding them.

02:26This is Congress's attempt to make sure that that does not happen again.

02:31I thank my colleagues.

02:32Ed's been great to work with.

02:33Leader Schumer, thank you for putting that on the floor.

02:37And it was great to partner both with Blumenthal and Blackburn in two really good bills that

02:41don't do everything, but that begin to make that interval change that protects people,

02:47even those people who are not LSU fans.

‘This Is Congress Being Responsive’: Bill Cassidy Applauds Passage Of Kids Online Safety Act

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