U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is leading an effort against online child exploitation through a trio of new bills, he announced Tuesday.
Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, and the panel’s chair, GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, are co-sponsoring three bills targeting child predators online and on social media.
“Big Tech continues to fail our most vulnerable because they refuse to incorporate safety-by-design measures into their platforms or make meaningful efforts to detect the increasingly violent and depraved sexual exploitation of children on their services,” Durbin said in a statement.
“Congress has spent enough time investigating tech platforms’ failures; it’s now time that we deliver for the American people,” he continued.
Among the bills is the Sentencing Accountability

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