Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes regulations for various online platforms regarding use by minors.

Highlights:

• Requires specified online platforms to establish safeguards for minors, including the following (Title 1):

• Limiting access to specified sexual material;

• Providing parental controls on social media and online video game platforms; and 

• Requiring artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to disclose certain information to users who are minors.

• Requires publicly available online platforms on which more than one-third of the content is considered sexual material harmful to minors to adopt technology to identify minors and prevent them from accessing such material (Title 1).

• Requires social media platforms to implement default settings for minors that limit compulsive usage features and the ability of other users to communicate with minors, and provide tools for parents to manage the privacy and account settings of a minor (Title 2).

• Prohibits social media platforms from allowing ephemeral messaging features for minors (Title 2).

• Requires online video game platforms to provide tools that allow parents to limit communication between a minor and other users of the platform, and restrict purchases by a minor on the platform (Title 3).

• Requires providers of AI chatbots to disclose to users who are minors that the chatbot is an AI system and not a human, and suicide and crisis intervention hotline information (Title 4).

• Requires specified studies and reports about the effects of social media platforms on minors and provides for enforcement of the bill's requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general (Title 5).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text