The Senate Business, Labor, & Technology Committee unanimously advanced SB26-051, which would require age attestation on computing devices, despite sharp testimony from child safety advocates, parents of deceased children, and tech critics who argued the bill's self-attestation system is easily manipulated and may give parents a false sense of security.
Senator Ball argued the bill represents a meaningful protective step modeled on California's unanimously passed AB 1043. Kim Osterman directly countered that the bill 'is enshrining into law a failed system of allowing users to self attest their own age,' and Morgan Hedrick testified from personal experience that 'Kids over 13 will not benefit from this. They will manipulate around the guardrails.'
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“You can take your kid to the zoo and you know, they're going to see animals. You can take your kid to a Broncos game, they're going to see a game. You take your kid to the Internet and it's the whole Internet. And I do think that what we have learned from the rise of social media is that the status quo, which is doing nothing, is not productive and not good for kids.”
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