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Today is Student Press Freedom Day, the annual celebration of student journalists contributions to their schools and communities. Student reporters work hard to persist in the face of increasing threats to the First Amendment rights, such as school administrators censoring their reporting and shutting down entire student newspapers.
In this climate, the last thing student journalists need is Congress piling on. But thats exactly what Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn have done with their newly revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act.
Weve written before about how KOSA is a wolf in sheeps clothing: Its a censorship bill hidden behind the mantle of child protection. KOSA has been consistently opposed by LGBTQ+, human rights, and civil liberties organizations because of the threat it poses to the privacy, free expression, and safety of young people.
Last week, in response to the drumbeat of criticism that has dogged the bill for more than two years, Blumenthal and Blackburn unveiled a revised version that they claim solves the bills problems. It doesnt.
Although the revised KOSA now appears to focus on design features of online platforms, what remains is the dangerous duty of care provision that requires platforms to take steps to prevent and mitigate those under the age of 17 from being exposed to harmful content through their design features.
As the advocacy group Fight for the Future explains, platforms will still respond to this new version of KOSA by aggressively filtering and suppressing controversial content.
For this reason, KOSA will still censor the news for everyone. But ironically, for a law thats supposed to protect kids, it may harm student journalists in three ways: one, by making it harder for them to find information online for their reporting; two, by censoring their news stories online; and three, by invading the privacy of student journalists, as well as everyone else.
Stymying student journalists from gathering information on social media
First, KOSA will make it harder for high school journalists to gather information on social media for their reporting. For example, the bill explicitly names information about suicidal behavior as harmful to kids. That means online platforms are likely to respond to KOSA by blocking content that discusses suicide from users under the age of 17, so that a design feature such as a recommendation system doesnt recommend that content to children.
If high school journalists want to report on the issue of teen suicide, they may struggle to find any information about it on social media, including information about suicide prevention or news reports.
The same is true for student journalists who want to report about other issues that students deal with every day: eating disorders (specifically flagged as harmful by KOSA), violence against LGBTQ+ kids (could cause anxiety, forbidden by KOSA), or even climate change (too depressing, also disallowed by the bill).
Censoring student journalists reporting
Second, for years, the student press has been using social media to reach audiences. But because KOSA will cause platforms to filter or even remove content that they fear the government will consider harmful to kids, high school journalists may also find their reporting censored on social media as a result of the legislation.
That means that young people may be blocked on social media from seeing the news reporting done by their classmates. For example, platforms may filter or delete student journalists news reports on sexual harassment or abuse of students because they relate to sexual exploitation and abuse of minors, which KOSA specifically identifies as harmful content.
Undermining privacy for all
Third, KOSA is also a privacy disaster for student journalists and everyone else. As Mike Masnick at Techdirt has explained, [N]othing in this bill works unless websites embrace age verification. To implement KOSAs requirement to protect minors, online platforms will have to age-verify users. And the only way to do that is to collect way more information on them, which puts their privacy at risk, Masnick explains.
Age verification will require online platforms to collect more information on all users, not just young people, meaning that everyones privacy will suffer. But its particularly pernicious for a childrens privacy bill to require minors to turn over sensitive information to the very platforms that are accused of harming them by mining their data in the first place.
Teaching kids that its OK, or even required, to reveal sensitive information online also sends a dangerous message, especially to student journalists. Professional reporters must take their online privacy seriously to avoid government surveillance and harassment. We should be teaching student journalists to do the same, not legally requiring them to identify themselves to online platforms so they can be age-verified.
Lawmakers shouldnt be asking student journalists or any young people to sacrifice their freedom of speech and privacy to protect them online. Lets celebrate Student Press Freedom Day by telling Congress not to censor the student press online. Tell Congress not to pass KOSA.
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Legislation to ensure that a 2022 law requiring parental notification of explicit instructional materials in public schools is not used to censor books appears to be heading to Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
The House of Delegates has now passed both its own version and a Senate version of the legislation.
The 2022 law included an enactment clause language that specified that it should not be construed as requiring or providing for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary schools. But some school boards have citedthe law when banning booksover the past year.
Last fall, a Hanover High School student placed Banned Book Nooks at two locations in the county, this one being at We Think In Ink in Ashland.
Senate Bill 235, sponsored by Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, which passed the House on Monday on a vote of 53-46, would put that language from the enactment clause into the law.
Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, seen here in 2020, sponsored the Senate version of the parental notification bill that cleared the House of Delegates on Monday.
Hashmi's measure previously passed the Senate 22-18 as Sen. David Suetterlein, R-Roanoke County, joined the 21 Democrats in supporting the measure.
With the bill having now cleared both chambers, the similar House Bill 571, sponsored by Del. Karrie Delaney, D-Fairfax,could likely clearthe Senate as well.
The lawmaker who carried the 2022 measure, then-Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant, R-Henrico, said last fall that censorship was not the intent of her bill, which gave parents the right to opt their children out of reading sexually explicit content.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant, R-Henrico, listen to attendees during a Parents Matter town hall meeting at Crestview Elementary School on Aug. 8. Dunnavant, the lawmaker who carried the 2022 parental notification measure, said last fall that censorship was not the intent of her bill, which gave parents the right to opt their children out of reading sexually explicit content.
Dunnavant's bill said each school board had to adopt policies by Jan. 1, 2023, to ensure parental notification about sexually explicit materials and to provide nonexplicit material as an alternative.
Pointing to that enactment clause that said the measure was not to be used to censor books in schools, Dunnavant said anyone who thinks the measure can be used in that way, needs to go read the bill.
Hashmi and Delaney have said that adding that language into the code will help prevent the law Dunnavant sponsored from being used incorrectly.
While Dunnavant stressed that censorship was not the intention of her bill, some school boards subsequently removed books from school libraries. Hanover, Spotsylvania and Madison counties have been hotspots for controversial book removals in Virginia schools.
The Hanover County School Board voted in June to rewrite its policy concerning which books are allowed in school libraries and then immediately moved to remove copies of 19 books. The policy gives the School Board sole discretion and authority to remove any books from school libraries with a majority vote.
In November, the administration of Hanover Public Schools ordered the removal of 75 book titles from school libraries, including The Handmaids Tale and Slaughterhouse Five, asserting they are sexually explicit.
Some parents and Republican lawmakers have urged the General Assembly to oppose Hashmi and Delaneys bills.
Last week, The Family Foundation hosted a group of parents and children at the state Capitol for a news conference to stress support and opposition of various bills relating to parental input in public education.
The organization's president, Victoria Cobb, accused Democrats of putting censorship into code in order to have a chilling effect on parents who oppose explicit reading materials being available to their children. Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper, joined the group to support its statements.
Ahead of the vote on Hashmi's bill in the House, Freitas asked if the bill would prevent parents from having input on some books being removed from school libraries.
"I would hope that we could all agree that there are some materials that, regardless of what an individual parent may want, they have no business being in a public school library," Freitas said.
Delaney assured the room that "every school district in this commonwealth has a pathway" for removing books.
"What this bill does, and simply the only thing that this bill does, is it prohibits the policies that were created for parental notification to be used for the reason why books can be removed from schools," Delaney said.
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