--- title: US House passes kids online safety package, setting up a... description: The US House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act 267-117, a sweeping youth online safety package that bundles over a dozen bills including the Kids... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/us-house-passes-kids-online-safety-package-setting-up-a-senate-fight-sgajbckqr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: US House passes kids online safety package, setting up a Senate fight | daily.dev og:description: The US House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act 267-117, a sweeping youth online safety package that bundles over a dozen bills including the Kids... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/us-house-passes-kids-online-safety-package-setting-up-a-senate-fight-sgajbckqr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sgaJBckqR.png og:image:alt: US House passes kids online safety package, setting up a Senate fight og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # US House passes kids online safety package, setting up a Senate fight **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The US House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act 267-117, a sweeping youth online safety package that bundles over a dozen bills including the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). The legislation would require default privacy settings for minors, expand parental controls, block private messaging for children under 13, impose safeguards on AI chatbots and gaming platforms, and mandate age verification on pornographic sites. However, the House stripped out the duty-of-care provision — the clause that would impose legal liability on platforms for harms to minors — which Senate sponsors consider essential. Senator Blumenthal declared the House version 'dead in the Senate,' setting up a legislative clash. Civil liberties groups have long opposed the duty-of-care clause, fearing it would incentivize platforms to over-remove lawful content. Meta has been lobbying against liability provisions amid thousands of active child-harm lawsuits. The bill's fate now hinges on whether the two chambers can reconcile their disagreement over that single deleted clause. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did the US House pass regarding kids' online safety and how does it differ from the Senate version of KOSA? The House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act 267-117, a package bundling over a dozen bills including the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). It requires default privacy settings for minors, expanded parental controls, restrictions on private and disappearing messaging for under-13s and under-17s, safeguards on AI chatbots and gaming platforms, and age verification for porn sites. Unlike the Senate version, it removes the duty-of-care provision that would let regulators sue platforms for failing to prevent harm to minors. _Follow how this legislative fight over the duty-of-care clause plays out via daily.dev._ ### Why is the duty-of-care provision in KOSA controversial? The duty-of-care provision would create a legal obligation for platforms to prevent specific harms to minors and let regulators sue when they fail, which senators like Richard Blumenthal consider the enforcement engine of the entire bill. Civil liberties groups warn it incentivizes platforms to over-remove lawful content on sexuality, mental health, and reproductive care out of fear of liability, drawing opposition from both the political left and right. _Developers building platforms with minors as users can track this liability debate on daily.dev._ ### How many active lawsuits does Meta face over child-harm claims? Meta faces more than 2,000 active lawsuits from families, school districts, and state attorneys general over child-harm claims. Despite this, the company has been lobbying Congress for provisions that would shield platforms from liability in these cases, a stance that critics argue conveniently aligns with the House's decision to strip KOSA's duty-of-care clause. _Track platform liability and compliance shifts affecting product teams on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [White House offers to trade state AI preemption for federal online safety laws in new deal with Congress](https://daily.dev/posts/white-house-offers-to-trade-state-ai-preemption-for-federal-online-safety-laws-in-new-deal-with-cong-ybdvavxtf) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK ministers probe 'child-protection' Online Safety tweaks](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-ministers-probe-child-protection-online-safety-tweaks-6xwg5wv0l) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. 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