Known as “Project 2029,” the liberal group was formed as a counterweight to the conservative Project 2025 to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic presidential nominee. The group reckons starting with online internet safety — which has widespread Democratic support — will help galvanize the party to address what it calls this generation’s “tobacco moment.”

The proposal also advocates for banning social media accounts for kids under 16 years old, adopting stronger default privacy protections, designing safer internet platforms, banning cell phones in schools (with exceptions), pushing for a smartphone-free childhood until age 14, banning surveillance advertising, and limiting data collection on children.

Another way to introduce Identity verification for using the internet

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[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Also, I never really thought about how fucked up it is that companies harbor mass data not just from adults but from kids. Like Meta & Google collect, sell, and buy mountains of files on the detailed engagement history, interests, searches, etc from a bunch of literal preteens..

Makes the framing of "limiting" data collection on kids (instead of "banning") even more fucking pathetic