A Senate committee has advanced a bill aimed at protecting children online that could create complications for advertisers trying to promote legal marijuana and other regulated substances.
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) from Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), in a voice vote on Wednesday,
The full House of Representatives passed a similar youth online safety measure with cannabis-focused provisions last month.
Under the Senate legislation, which has 76 cosponsors, online platforms would be prohibited from facilitating the “advertising of narcotic drugs, cannabis products, tobacco products, gambling, or alcohol to an individual that the covered platform knows is a minor.”
It would also require online platforms to “exercise reasonable care in the creation and implementation of any design feature to prevent and mitigate” the “distribution, sale, or use of narcotic drugs, tobacco products, cannabis products, gambling, or alcohol” to minors. That provision is in effect when a “reasonable and prudent person would agree that such harms were reasonably foreseeable by the covered platform and would agree that the design feature is a contributing factor to such harms.”
Video streaming services would specifically be required to “employ measures
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