Rand Paul just blocked the Senate from passing KOSA by unanimous consent. It was the fourth attempt in four years.
The Senate bill never says "age verification." It says platforms must prevent harms to minors and can be held liable if a reasonable person would have known a user was a minor. The only safe way to avoid that liability is to check everyone.
The House version skips the guessing. It requires age verification for every user, and it passed 267 to 117.
The Senate bill also orders a study on verifying age at the device or operating system level. Meta dropped its opposition once the bill was paired with a federal ban on state AI laws and a digital ID push.
Both versions lead to the same place, which is an ID check for the whole internet.
https://reclaimthenet.org/rand-paul-blocks-kosa-fast-track-approval
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