There are few bigger threats to the safety and well-being of our children in the modern age than the Big Tech oligarchs who control the internet. As platforms such as Facebook and Snapchat have served as open drug markets for dealers and cartels, lethal fentanyl overdoses among minors have skyrocketed, up by a factor of 30 between 2013 and 2021.

On platforms like Instagram, sophisticated algorithms connect pedophiles who buy and sell child sexual abuse material with minors. And on sites like Chinese-owned TikTok, children have been bombarded with content that promotes suicide, eating disorders and self harm within minutes of opening the app.

For years, Big Tech evaded any accountability for the damage they inflict on American children. That’s now changed with the Senate passing the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), bipartisan legislation led by Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, that would impose strict rules........

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