Critics Warn Against Attaching Kids’ Online Safety Bill to FAA

A bill intended to keep kids safe online would do more harm than good and Congress should not include it in must-pass aviation legislation, a handful of technology and LGBTQ+ rights groups urged Senate leaders.

Senators have been angling to attach a slate of bipartisan proposals to aviation legislation expected to be one of the last major bills Congress takes up before the 2024 election. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) filed an amendment last week to include their Kids Online Safety Act (S.1409) in the measure to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, which lapses on ...