Shelby Knox
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2 Dec
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It's been 25 years since Congress has passed a law to protect kids online, whereas states have been on the forefront of passing legislation that is impacting their constituents right now.
Sure, if there was a strong federal law that truly protected kids, preemption might be appropriate, but that's not the situation that we're looking at.
We need a ceiling, not a floor.
And without a strong federal law, we don't have it.
Yeah, I mean, so we passed the Maryland Kids Code.
Christine was one of our big advocates on that, which is a safety by design law.
Nebraska has passed that as well, Vermont.
Deb got phone-free schools legislation passed in Massachusetts.
Lori has been working on legislation in Colorado to protect kids from AI.
So there are bills, great bills across the state, safety by design.
We are asking for these products to be designed to be safe from the very beginning.
Technologists tell us that's possible.
tech companies say it's not, and that's only because they want to protect their profits.
I mean, I will say that Parents Together just put out some research.
We spent 50 hours posing as kids talking to character AI bots.
Within that time, we had a bot posing as an art teacher having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student, a bot that claimed to be a therapist with a degree from Lewis and Clark University telling a child to quit taking their prescribed medication, and a bot concocting a plan with a child to lie to their parents, tell them there was a wedding out of town so that they could be alone together.
These are things that are horrifying.
If a parent heard those things were happening in real life, they would be calling the cops.
Instead, these are kids in their bedrooms alone, talking to bots, being groomed by bots, being talked into bad ideas and lying to their parents by bots.
It's unconscionable.
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