Editorial: Congress finally wakes up to Big Tech’s failure to protect kids
by Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Feb 22, 2023
3 minutes
If any issue can bring notoriously polarized Washington together across party lines — and should — it is the need to protect America’s children from such perils as those to be found in abundance on the internet.
Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, openly expressed his delight as senators from both parties came together last week in a renewed push to pass federal protections for young people online.
“I don’t know if any or all of you realize what you witnessed today,” Durbin said during the session. “But this Judiciary Committee crosses
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