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.
It’s Time We Stop Accepting the EdTech Lie
During the pandemic, while Americans were grappling with kitchen table issues such as job security, basic freedoms, the well-being of their loved ones and, importantly, the education of their children, Big Tech silently wrote their ticket to further subsidize their already trillion-dollar industry. And it wasn’t through broadband grants or shadowy back-door-deals tasking Meta or...