US President Joe Biden delivered his “State of the Union” speech. In his speech, he touched upon many important issues from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to chip production, from coronavirus measures to the fight against inflation. One of the most important among these was the section on the protection of children.
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ADB President, one of the topics of speech was the negative effect of social media on children. Wanting to focus on this issue seriously, BIden asked for a new law to be implemented in order to increase child safety and ban advertisements for children on other social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok. The President made the following statements on the subject:
It’s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising towards children, and demand that tech companies stop collecting personal data about our children.
The White House is determined to keep the issue tight. So much so that a fund will be allocated to research it in detail. Biden also makes a substantial $5 million allowance to research the impact of social media on mental health. On the other hand, he started initiatives to establish the “National Center of Excellence for Social Media and Mental Illnesses”.
The statements of Facebook informant Frances Haugen take an important place under Joe Biden’s stance on this issue. So much so that Haugen testified before Congress recently. In her statement, she argued that Facebook parent company Meta ignored child safety on their platform. After these statements, Biden said the following words.
As Frances Haugen, who is here with us tonight, has shown, we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they are running on our children for profit.
The US continues to show that it will prioritize child safety. So much so that the senators on both sides seem to agree on this issue. Last month, Democrats Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal introduced the Children’s Online Safety Act (KOSA). According to this law, the features that will be released on social media platforms will have to pass through the child safety filter.
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