As amended, House Bill 18—the Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act (2023)—proposes to protect children from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services. It provides enhanced online privacy protections, places a duty on digital service providers to limit access to harmful online content, and empowers parents with additional rights and tools to keep their children safe.
The False Dichotomy – To Ban Or Not To Ban TikTok
Common sense tells us that when someone says, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” the inverse of that statement is not, “you will get sick and immediately die if you forget to pack an apple for lunch.” Yet TikTok parent company ByteDance thinks Americans are credulous enough to accept the premise that we...