Parents and Child Advocates fighting for policies that prioritize children’s online well-being and parent empowerment. #AppStoreAccountabilityAct
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🚨NEW NATIONAL POLL🚨
88% of parents support requiring app stores to obtain parental approval.
Thank you @SenMikeLee & @RepJames for introducing the #AppStoreAccountabilityAct!
Read more: digitalchildhoodalliance.org…
Major win for kids! 50 AGs fought hard for the largest Big Tech settlement ever and historic changes to Meta’s platforms. YouTube, Roblox, TikTok, and Snapchat should be next.
Harmful platforms must have adequate protections for children, and better tools for parents. 1/2
But AG action alone isn’t enough. Congress: Pass the App Store Accountability Act and KOSA so no child can lie about their age and every parent has real tools to protect their kids online. 2/2
Our full statement: digitalchildhoodalliance.org…
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
52 AGs just got Meta to agree to defaults that actually protect teens, like time limits, night mode, muted school-hours notifications, and private accounts. What's more, this, plus the states that have passed acutal age verification laws, like ASAA (i.e., TX, UT, AL, and LA), makes those states the safest places for children online in the country from Meta!
Regardless, this is a significant step forward for child safety!
TikTok, Google, and Snap have no excuse left. Match it and join Meta here. This is especially true for Google, that has spent billions of dollars at the state and federal levels to fight targeted solutions like KOSA and ASAA.
Do the right thing for once in your corporate life (this goes triple for Apple)!
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
While Meta is certainly paying for its conduct, this was never just about the money. Kids deserve a childhood that isn’t measured in likes and followers. The online protections delivered by this settlement will bring a generational change.
More: kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-…
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
💔$ won't bring teens like Elijah Heacock and Gavin Guffey back from the grave, but the RELENTLESS advocacy of their families together with survivor parents like Lori Schott, Maurine Molak, Brian Montgomery, Julianna Arnold, the Minors, and Christine McComas brought this settlement. Rest in Eternal Peace to the heavenly angels celebrating this victory w/us. @NCOSE @brandonguffeysc @ptogetheraction @parents4sos @Parents_Rise @maurinemolak @Loriaschott @fairplayforkids @HaleyMcNamara @lynns_warriors @twestes @BetterFuture_AI @sachalouise
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
Meta just agreed to pay up to $16.7 BILLION over allegations that it harmed children. And the settlement doesn’t stop at a payout. Meta will be required to implement new safeguards, including limits on teen usage, nighttime restrictions, and stronger protections for young users. This is what accountability looks like. Children’s safety cannot be an afterthought.
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#Meta #ChildSafety #KidsOnlineSafety #MarkZuckerberg #NCOSE #EndExploitation
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
First, Big Tech said the law was impossible to implement...then it was seamlessly implemented.
They said it was unconstitutional...SCOTUS unanimously disagreed.
Now they call it "big gov't"...but parents call it basic child safety. #txlege
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“The App Store Accountability Act protects children & empowers parents with the ability to decide what apps their kids should be able to access on their smartphone.”
Thank you @HouseCommerce @RepGuthrie!
Next up: Passing the ASAA on the House floor! thecentersquare.com/national…
✅The Supreme Court just ruled that Texas can enforce the App Store Accountability Act while the Fifth Circuit appeal continues.
Thank you @SenPaxton @FairlyForTexas for championing policies that deliver critical protections for Texas families! #txpol digitalchildhoodalliance.org…
"Monday’s decision comes after a bipartisan group of 27 state attorneys general, led by Florida’s James Uthmeier, filed an amicus brief in support of the Texas law."
Thank you @AGJamesUthmeier & the 26 more bipartisan state AGs for supporting Texas' App Store Accountability Act!
NEW: The Supreme Court declined to block a Texas app store law.
w/ @hassankanu
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Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
In a win for kids' online safety and parental empowerment, SCOTUS allows Texas to enforce it's App Store Accountability Act while it awaits the 5th Circuit's ruling on the merits @DigiChildInst @FamStudies @NCOSElaw
UPDATE:
"@ccianet’s Application (25A1390) to vacate stay presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied."
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
🚨 The Supreme Court allowed Texas to continue enforcing its App Store Accountability Act, which requires age verification and parental consent before minors can download apps or make in-app purchases.
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
Big win for Texas families tonight. 🚨
The Fifth Circuit has stayed the injunction against Texas’s App Store Accountability Act — legislation I proudly authored as SB 2420.
That means app stores must once again verify ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps.
Parents deserve meaningful tools to protect their children online, and Texas is continuing to lead the way in standing up to Big Tech and putting kids first. 👏🇨🇱
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Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
A major win for kids digital safety, today! 📱🚨
The Fifth Circuit has issued a temporary stay of the district court’s injunction blocking enforcement of the App Store Accountability Act - SB 2420!
BIG WIN. 5th Circuit lifted the injunction blocking Texas's App Store Accountability Act bringing .@FairlyForTexas & .@AngelaPaxtonTX’s SB 2420 one step closer to protecting Texas kids.
Parents are winning. The Constitution is on our side.
Now, .@SenTedCruz: pass the federal ASAA! digitalchildhoodalliance.org…
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
NCOSE, joined by than 100 child protection organizations are calling on Congress to oppose the so-called “Parents Over Platforms Act,” warning it would undermine state online safety laws and protect Big Tech from accountability. Families need stronger protections for kids online, not legislation that weakens them. Read more below.👇
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#NCOSE #EndExploitation #Congress #ParentsOverPlatforms #ParentsOverPlatformsAct #BigTech #Accountability
“The deceptively named Parents over Platforms Act (POPA) should be aptly named Platforms over Parents Act" said @RepJames.
POPA relies on self-reported age which “has repeatedly failed to keep our children safe.”
88% of parents instead support the App Store Accountability Act!
Big Tech Group Jumps The Gun On Unreleased Bill, Raising Questions About Cozy Ties With Lawmakers: An Apple-backed trade group on April 12th prematurely published a press release this week praising a yet-to-be-introduced Senate bill, raising questions… dlvr.it/TS9bMV
Digital Childhood Alliance retweeted
Big Tech Group Jumps The Gun On Unreleased Bill, Raising Questions About Cozy Ties With Lawmakers: An Apple-backed trade group on April 12th prematurely published a press release this week praising a yet-to-be-introduced Senate bill, raising questions… dlvr.it/TS9bMV