California lawmakers essentially copied the U.K.’s Age Appropriate Design Code, which required platforms like Facebook and YouTube to redesign their products with kids’ safety in mind.
But Kidron, a film director-turned-children’s rights advocate, has used a combination of perseverance and savvy politics to become arguably the most important and effective driver of data privacy and social media rules in the United States.
A digital rights poster hangs in Kidron's stairwell. Her idea is that the onus belongs on the big tech companies, not parents and guardians of kids, to reshape their services to treat kids differently from adults using digital products. Research folders and projects sit on the shelves of the office of Kidron, who has become arguably the most important and effective driver of data privacy and social media rules in the U.S.
“This is a systemic problem,” she added, almost impatient about why the tech industry hadn’t moved further. “The current system allows the bad actors access to our children.” , the co-authors of the most high-profile Beltway children’s protection proposal, known as the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA.
Those within the tech sector also chide Kidron’s European-style paternalism over how minors should be treated when using the web. The digital world should be free for all to decide what they want to see, her critics add, not become a walled-off garden based on black-and-white definitions of what is acceptable.
During the filming, the British director cut two children from the documentary because she believed their experiences online had made them too vulnerable to include in the movie. Another videogame-obsessed participant was kicked out of college soon after she finished filming. A fourth was recommended for psychological support.
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