Overview
- The House approved the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, HR 7757, in a 267-117 vote on Wednesday and transmitted the package to the Senate for consideration.
- The House bill incorporates the SCREEN age‑verification amendment that would require platforms to use technology checks to block minors from sexual material.
- Senate sponsors of the separate Kids Online Safety Act say the House text omits their proposed duty‑of‑care requirement and is unlikely to pass the Senate without changes.
- Critics warn mandatory age verification could centralize sensitive identity data, chill anonymous speech, and raise enforcement and privacy problems while supporters say it stops early exposure to pornography.
- Negotiations involving Senate leaders, KOSA sponsors, and the White House are expected next and will determine which measures survive, building on KOSA’s multi‑year, repeatedly stalled history.