Today, in the wake of a pivotal House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on children's online safety and data privacy, Parents for Safe Online Spaces (ParentsSOS) urgently calls on Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), to advance the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to a markup session. This critical step is essential to propel the bill through the legislative process without further delay.

Letter to House of Representatives Leadership from survivor parents of ParentsSOS and Parents Together Action who have lost a child to online harms.

Letter to the Electronic Frontier Foundation from survivor parents of ParentsSOS who have lost a child to online harms.

The updated version of the Kids Online Safety Act has gained endorsements from the NAACP and gaming giant Nintendo, and now has 60 co-sponsors in the Senate, priming the Act for a Senate vote in the coming weeks.

Today’s hearing was an opportunity for our lawmakers to ask the tough, but necessary, questions of Big Tech to learn why they have allowed their products to create such serious harms to our children. Predictably, the five CEOs present gave hollow responses.

On January 31, five Big Tech CEOs will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the failures of their platforms to adequately protect kids online. ParentsSOS aims to raise awareness about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and parents in our coalition have submitted these important questions for CEOs to answer.

Parents for Safe Online Spaces (ParentsSOS) aims to help pass legislation to enact safeguards on social media.