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Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 08:00:48 pm »

 However, one of the bills included in the House package, known as the Kids Online Safety Act, omits the “duty of care” provision, which is central to a Senate bill with the same name. The absence of that provision has drawn criticism from child safety advocates and a bipartisan group of senators, including KOSA sponsor Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who is working with the White House on her own kids’ safety package that could ultimately block or replace some state AI laws.

Concern tech companies would exploit misunderstanding between the 2 bills

The KIDS’ Act would additionally restrict minors’ use of disappearing messages, require AI chatbots to disclose that they are not human and require platforms to implement age verification technology for users accessing pornographic material, among other measures.

Privacy advocates are concerned about language they believe incentivizes age verification measures to access all online services.

“All users, including kids, deserve strong privacy protections, not mandates to hand over more and more personal details whenever they go online,” the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Free Expression Project Director Kate Ruane said in a statement.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 07:56:13 pm »

 Bipartisan deal for the KIDS Act emerged in the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week, which would create baseline federal standards for kids’ online safety while allowing states to adopt more aggressive protections. It also omits language preempting state artificial intelligence laws — a major Silicon Valley priority Senate Republicans are expected to take up.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said the bill was “a good first step,” saying it establishes federal preemption as a floor rather than a ceiling. “It’s not how I would write the bill. But we’re not in the majority,” Lieu said.

Key Democratic House members have come out in support of the package, including Lori Trahan of Massachusetts and Sam Liccardo of California, who have urged their caucus not to let perfection trump what they describe as a strong compromise.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 07:54:38 pm »

Still unlikely to become law this late in term with a major difference between House and Senate on "duty of care". Also how to verify age and 1st amendment concerns

Kids’ safety package wins House approval
The legislation cleared the House despite opposition from some kids’ safety advocates and resistance from senators backing a competing proposal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/29/kids-safety-package-wins-house-approval-00980846

The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Monday night designed to provide greater protections to children online — a bipartisan vote that came despite deep divisions between the House and Senate and rebukes from kids’ safety advocates.

The vote was 267-117, enough to pass the legislation, known as the KIDS Act H.R. 7757 (119), under a fast-track procedure requiring a two-thirds majority.


With August recess just weeks away, the window for Congress to pass kids’ safety legislation this year is narrowing. Prospects of the package clearing both chambers are dim, as the House and Senate remain at an impasse over which of the competing child safety efforts lawmakers should coalesce around — and if such a proposal should block or replace some state artificial intelligence laws.

How to verify a user’s age online, First Amendment concerns and a critical provision called the “duty of care,” which compels online companies to design social media platforms with children’s safety in mind, will be at the center of a high-stakes standoff any kids’ safety package will face in the Senate.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 07:47:52 pm »

John Roberts fought for decades to get rid of the 1935 precedent that had limited a president’s firing authority
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/john-roberts-1935-humphreys-executor-presidents-fire-anyone

This is a bad ruling.
Heard it described as independent watchdogs

Are now lap dogs.

But the work of US independent agencies cuts a swath across American life, for better or worse, imposing requirements on businesses and individuals in areas of public health and safety, consumer protection, with the goal of enhancing the common good.

On Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered an oral dissent for the left-wing justices, emphasizing the importance of insulating independent regulators from the pressure of a president who may want to infringe on fair-trade regulations, such as overseen by the FTC, but also workplace safety, nuclear energy and chemical hazards that regulatory agencies manage.

Sotomayor said Congress had long relied on the 1935 precedent to set up a workable regulatory system of government.

“(T)he Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted,” Sotomayor wrote, “elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws.”
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 07:39:12 pm »

Quote from: Texas Pete on Today at 05:17:02 pm
Try the word games .

Come on over. I've got a board about full of them.
Posted by: Frodo
« on: Today at 07:34:23 pm »

This is even wilder.

Paraguay-Germany was tied 1-1 after regulation time, after bonus time

Went to penalty kicks. 5 each until winner.

Tied 3-3 after that.

Kept kicking and Paraguay hit one Germany didn't match so Paraguay wins 4-3 on PKs
Posted by: positronium
« on: Today at 06:54:25 pm »

deflection...... It is not up to me to provide for your health care...
Posted by: purplelady1040
« on: Today at 06:44:14 pm »

It got super hot today. Had to pick son up from work as his vehicle is being worked on and had a 6 point buck come in front of me. Thank goodness, uou can only go like 10 miles per hour on the road to picking him up as there are potholes everywhere.
Posted by: Garthok
« on: Today at 06:44:09 pm »

Quote from: Texas Pete on Today at 05:54:34 pm
Getting down on the ground is hard for me.
For me, it's the getting back up from the ground.
Posted by: NC Yankee
« on: Today at 06:42:52 pm »

Quote from: Texas Pete on Today at 05:54:34 pm
Getting down on the ground is hard for me.

That would make it more difficult.
Posted by: Mark J
« on: Today at 06:33:31 pm »

Quote from: NC Yankee on Today at 05:18:05 pm
https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/s/If5QHjHLT3


"..The dumbest and most ridiculous propaganda: Multiple popular Russian news outlets simultaneously published articles detailing the "dangers" of fueling a car to a full tank.."


Posted by: Mark J
« on: Today at 06:31:15 pm »

"...On June 22, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Dubna and Vladimir Space Communications Centers.

The facility in Dubna is the largest ground-based satellite communications complex in Russia. The center is used for military communications and to control satellite transponders employed by the Russian Ministry of Defense for communications, reconnaissance, and troop coordination..."
Posted by: Mark J
« on: Today at 06:29:28 pm »

If only



Posted by: Mark J
« on: Today at 06:28:20 pm »

Posted by: Mark J
« on: Today at 06:26:11 pm »

"...Sony erases digital content from libraries; we’re reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years..."
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