Meta & YouTube Child Safety Trials
The growing wave of verdicts and legal scrutiny around child-safety and social-media addiction harms.
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Answer the policy questions below. We'll map your positions to the bills in Congress and draft your message.
Federal enforcement and state power on youth privacy
3 bills on this topic
“Should the federal government set one main national system for enforcing child and teen online privacy rules, or should states keep more room to make and enforce their own laws?”
Online privacy rules for kids and teens
3 bills on this topic
“What rules should websites and apps have to follow when they collect, use, keep, or share personal information from children and teens?”
Who enforces the rules and whether states can add their own
2 bills on this topic
“The federal government should set, enforce, and partly replace state rules for this app-store child-safety system, while leaving some lawsuits and legal claims in place.”
Mental health warnings on online platforms
1 bill on this topic
“Online platforms should have to show clear mental health warnings and help information before people use them.”
Sharing and protecting children's app data
1 bill on this topic
“If app stores collect age and parent-approval information, that data should be tightly limited, protected, and shared only in narrow ways.”
Whether social media should ban accounts for kids under 16
1 bill on this topic
“Should certain online platforms be required to keep children under 16 off their services, and if so, how clear and strict should the age rules, account shutdown process, and start date be?”
Online abuse reporting and transparency
1 bill on this topic
“This topic covers what online providers must report, preserve, and publicly disclose when they learn about child sexual exploitation content or related conduct.”
Online safety rules for minors
1 bill on this topic
“Online platforms that minors use should have a legal duty to reduce serious harms to young users.”
Privacy rules for age-check data
1 bill on this topic
“If websites collect age-check information, they should have clear privacy rules, strong security, and limits on how long they keep that data.”
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Why this actually works
01Lawmakers often don’t know what you think
A Yale field experiment found legislators shown actual district opinion shifted their votes to match it. The ones kept in the dark? No relationship between constituent views and how they voted.
02Congressional offices are built to process this
Offices log, sort, tag, and tally incoming contact, then brief the member. Constituent communications eat roughly a third of House staff resources. Your message gets counted.
03Personalized beats template, by a lot
92% of staff say individualized messages influence undecided lawmakers — versus 56% for form letters. Naming a specific bill with your own reasoning puts you in a different category entirely.
04Silence isn’t neutral
When offices don’t hear from constituents, they ask lobbyists instead. Not contacting your rep doesn’t leave the scale empty — it hands the weight to someone else.