Exclusive: Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ goes after tech companies with online safety plan
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The liberal counterweight to conservatives’ Project 2025 is rolling out a series of policies to set the stage for an already crowded field of 2028 presidential hopefuls.

Known as “Project 2029,” the liberal group was formed as a counterweight to the conservative Project 2025 to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic presidential nominee. The group reckons starting with online internet safety — which has widespread Democratic support — will help galvanize the party to address what it calls this generation’s “tobacco moment.”

The proposal also advocates for banning social media accounts for kids under 16 years old, adopting stronger default privacy protections, designing safer internet platforms, banning cell phones in schools (with exceptions), pushing for a smartphone-free childhood until age 14, banning surveillance advertising, and limiting data collection on children.

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  • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    Tf is it with international liberals and taking internet from kids? If social media is supposedly this harmful, addictive drug in everyone’s pockets at all times, WHY NOT JUST REGULATE IT FOR EVERYONE? Maybe ban companies from neuro-simulatory designs to maximize addiction loops/ engagement? Mandate better screen time controls and open-source, less addictive, less harmful algorithms?

    I guess the Meta and tech oligarchs would never agree to that but could get behind banning minors if it reduces their liability in some ways? i.e. they could relax censorship of gore, sketchy porn, and hate speech without worrying about as many lawsuits due to kids being exposed to it

    limiting data collection on children

    Omfg WHY NOT FOR EVERYONE? At LEAST the turbolibs in the EU Parliament did GPDR

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      open-source, less addictive, less harmful algorithms?

      oh my god, could you imagine? You would find single issue voters who come out of the wood work for some shit like this. It would be like water in the fucking desert.

    • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      Also, I never really thought about how fucked up it is that companies harbor mass data not just from adults but from kids. Like Meta & Google collect, sell, and buy mountains of files on the detailed engagement history, interests, searches, etc from a bunch of literal preteens…

      Makes the framing of “limiting” data collection on kids (instead of “banning”) even more fucking pathetic