App developers emphasize the necessity for clear, consistent guidelines that foster innovation while enabling them to offer effective measures for parents to safeguard children from inappropriate online content.
Following an announcement by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Representative John James (R-MI), ACT | The App Association released a formal statement.
“Today’s announcement of Meta’s self-serving solution to avoid their responsibility to protect kids is deplorable. It’s a one-size fits all approach built to solve problems social media platforms have with their systems while making small app developers collateral damage,” said App Association President Morgan Reed. “This bill is not meaningfully different from the failed version introduced in the last Congress. It proposes a rat’s nest of confusing and even contradictory requirements. It’s a bad bill for developers, for kids, for parents, and for the app economy.”