**This bill is a fucking Trojan Horse. Period.**
Its a federal surveillance and control system over the entire internet that will be used on adults.
Using child safety. As cover
1. It builds a national digital ID system through the back door.
The bill says three times it does not require age verification. That is a lie. Every single protection in the bill only triggers when a platform "knows or should have known" a user is a minor. No platform can prove it did not know without checking. The bill creates a legal trap where the only safe path is to card everyone. Once that infrastructure is built, it does not get turned off when you turn 18. The same system that checks if you are 16 today checks if you are 21 tomorrow. The same database that verifies a teenager verifies a gun buyer, a voter, a patient. This is a national digital identity system built under the cover of child protection.
2. It hands the FTC the keys to the internet.**
The FTC gets authority over age verification standards, content safety audits, data broker registries, social media research, chatbot rules, gaming platform safety, educational resources, advertising regulations, and enforcement of the entire act. The FTC becomes the operational regulator of the American internet. This is the largest federal power grab over online platforms in a decade, buried inside a children's safety bill where nobody will vote against it.
3. It forces companies to spy on children to prove they are protecting them.**
The audit requirements mandate platforms track and report how many minors use their service, how long they spend, what safety features they use, what reports they file, and what personal information is collected. The government orders companies to gather detailed statistics about children under the banner of protecting them. A bill that claims to protect children's privacy mandates the collection of more data about children than has ever been collected before.
4. It shields Big Tech and crushes small competitors.
The data broker rules exempt Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft because their product is advertising services, not data sales. The companies that collect the most minor data in the world are exempt from the data broker regulations. The compliance costs annual third-party audits, safety tools, parental controls, reporting systems, age verification infrastructure cost millions. Big tech absorbs this. Small platforms die. The bill consolidates market power among the largest tech monopolies while pretending to regulate them.
5. It cuts parents out through school contracts.**
Educational technology companies can collect children's personal information without parental consent if they have a written agreement with a school. The school consents. The parent is never told. Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas—they all get direct access to student data through school district contracts. This is a corporate pipeline of minor data with zero parental involvement, written into a bill that claims to empower parents.
6. It kills encryption through regulatory pressure.
The bill says it does not require breaking encryption. Another lie. It requires platforms to provide messaging controls, content filtering, and safety features for minors. On an end-to-end encrypted platform, you cannot filter content you cannot see. The only way to comply is to either break encryption for minor accounts or disable it entirely. The bill creates regulatory pressure to destroy encryption while claiming to protect it. Once encryption is weakened for minors, the vulnerability exists for everyone.
Mike
Its a federal surveillance and control system over the entire internet that will be used on adults.
Using child safety. As cover
1. It builds a national digital ID system through the back door.
The bill says three times it does not require age verification. That is a lie. Every single protection in the bill only triggers when a platform "knows or should have known" a user is a minor. No platform can prove it did not know without checking. The bill creates a legal trap where the only safe path is to card everyone. Once that infrastructure is built, it does not get turned off when you turn 18. The same system that checks if you are 16 today checks if you are 21 tomorrow. The same database that verifies a teenager verifies a gun buyer, a voter, a patient. This is a national digital identity system built under the cover of child protection.
2. It hands the FTC the keys to the internet.**The FTC gets authority over age verification standards, content safety audits, data broker registries, social media research, chatbot rules, gaming platform safety, educational resources, advertising regulations, and enforcement of the entire act. The FTC becomes the operational regulator of the American internet. This is the largest federal power grab over online platforms in a decade, buried inside a children's safety bill where nobody will vote against it.
3. It forces companies to spy on children to prove they are protecting them.**The audit requirements mandate platforms track and report how many minors use their service, how long they spend, what safety features they use, what reports they file, and what personal information is collected. The government orders companies to gather detailed statistics about children under the banner of protecting them. A bill that claims to protect children's privacy mandates the collection of more data about children than has ever been collected before.
4. It shields Big Tech and crushes small competitors.The data broker rules exempt Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft because their product is advertising services, not data sales. The companies that collect the most minor data in the world are exempt from the data broker regulations. The compliance costs annual third-party audits, safety tools, parental controls, reporting systems, age verification infrastructure cost millions. Big tech absorbs this. Small platforms die. The bill consolidates market power among the largest tech monopolies while pretending to regulate them.
5. It cuts parents out through school contracts.**
Educational technology companies can collect children's personal information without parental consent if they have a written agreement with a school. The school consents. The parent is never told. Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas—they all get direct access to student data through school district contracts. This is a corporate pipeline of minor data with zero parental involvement, written into a bill that claims to empower parents.
6. It kills encryption through regulatory pressure.
The bill says it does not require breaking encryption. Another lie. It requires platforms to provide messaging controls, content filtering, and safety features for minors. On an end-to-end encrypted platform, you cannot filter content you cannot see. The only way to comply is to either break encryption for minor accounts or disable it entirely. The bill creates regulatory pressure to destroy encryption while claiming to protect it. Once encryption is weakened for minors, the vulnerability exists for everyone.
Mike
