Child safety online one of few issues Congress can agree on

Doing more to protect children online appears to be one of the few issues that still has bipartisan support in Congress.

Lawmakers from both parties have so far focused with some urgency on their own active legislation, pushing the social media bosses present today to either express support for it or explain why they will not.

This is a big change in tone from previous Big Tech hearings, where politicians have largely railed against executives for what their companies are doing wrong and taken pot shots at the opposing side.

“It’s been 28 years since the internet,” Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar said. “We haven’t passed any of these bills.”

“The reason they haven’t passed is because of the power of your companies, so let’s be really clear about that: What you say matters.”

These kinds of pointed remarks are drawing reactions from the capacity crowd here.

Source:BBC