It's unclear whether the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) will survive Congress, but regulation focused on Big Tech is going to include video games. What happens next?
As currently proposed, KOSA’s pitch on harm reduction policies come in a few forms:
Establishing a “duty of care” requirement that would potentially hold social networking companies liable if they fail to filter out abusive or exploitative content for minors
Ban targeted advertising towards minors
Stronger default privacy protections for minors
Beyond that, the bill is still in progress. It passed the Senate, but not the House, and it might be dead in the water, so there are no specific implementation details just yet. The point of the article is that legislators are aware of online “platform” games like Roblox, and they are aware that they are exploiting kids. So even if this specific bill doesn’t pass, regulation is coming one way or another. It’s just a question of whether the industry will self-regulate before the government actually passes something.
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Yes, but how. The details matter
That’s what the article is for.
That article is light on implemention details. It talks a lot about the legislation itself, and ways in which it might be implemented.
It’s not an article. It’s a blog post. That’s the problem.
Beyond that, the bill is still in progress. It passed the Senate, but not the House, and it might be dead in the water, so there are no specific implementation details just yet. The point of the article is that legislators are aware of online “platform” games like Roblox, and they are aware that they are exploiting kids. So even if this specific bill doesn’t pass, regulation is coming one way or another. It’s just a question of whether the industry will self-regulate before the government actually passes something.
I doubt it. But I really hope that translates to micro transactions are illegal now.