Hold tech companies accountable to ensure a healthy internet

SAN FRANCISCO,  Common Sense, the nation's main nonprofit committed to enhancing the lives of children and households in the digital age, has lengthy championed superior protections for youngsters and students' privacy, pushed for higher connectivity for college students and families, and sought to maintain tech groups to blame to make certain a healthful internet. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, years of unchecked increase by way of Big Tech and damaging on-line practices impacting our youngsters and our democracy, and a new administration in Washington, now is the second to make sure that tech is a pressure for fairness and probability for all families. Common Sense's tech agenda includes:

 

Hold Social Media Platforms Accountable to Protect Kids and our Democracy

Section 230 Reform: At the federal stage reform Section 230 to require superior content material moderation to shield children, families, and our democracy.
Curb Harmful Experiences and Inappropriate Content: Limit kids' publicity to violence, racism, harassment, inappropriate advertising, and different varieties of detrimental content.
Healthy and Safe Internet: Establish guardrails to make sure excessive first-rate on-line content material and secure experiences that aid children emotional well-being.
Protect Privacy for Children, Families and all Consumers

Comprehensive Privacy Law: Establish robust and clear privateness protections for children, households and consumers, with a complete country wide privateness regulation that ensures distinctive protections for prone adolescents and teens.
Student Privacy: Protect pupil privateness and make certain that faculty zones are privateness zones, anywhere younger humans are learning.
Enforcement: Significantly give a boost to federal enforcement powers and assets and set up a new federal privateness enforcement agency.
Ensure Market Competition and Diverse Choices for Kids and Families

Antitrust: Address the unchecked strength of social media giants by using making use of and implementing antitrust laws.
Promote Tech Equity: Close the Digital Divide for Good

Broadband Infrastructure: Fund primary infrastructure funding to make sure familiar deployment of broadband networks capable to meet the wants of distance getting to know and different fundamental household wishes and offerings such as jobs and fitness care.
Affordable Access and Devices: Fund a sustained dedication to broadband carrier and units succesful of distance gaining knowledge of to college students and teachers.
Digital Citizenship and Inclusion: Comprehensive digital literacy and inclusion aid for students, teachers, and parents.