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Mother Demands Justice, Big Tech Accountability
Faith Facts
- Kristin Bride, whose teenage son died by suicide due to online harassment, urges reform of Section 230 for greater Big Tech accountability.
- The National Center on Sexual Exploitation highlights that Section 230 shields platforms from justice for distributing harmful and explicit content.
- Senators from both parties have introduced legislation to ensure tech companies are held responsible for the harm caused by their platforms.
A grieving mother is calling upon lawmakers to reform Section 230 after her son’s tragic death by suicide, which followed relentless online bullying.
She believes that families deserve legal recourse against tech companies whose platforms foster harm yet evade responsibility.
“YOLO opened with a pop-up screen promising that it would monitor cyberbullying and reveal and ban abusers,” Bride stated.
“Yet, the last search on Carson’s phone before he ended his life was for hacks to find out who was doing this to him.”
“This was the darkest day of my life,” she added.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s Dani Pinter criticized Section 230 for turning tech industry profit motives into shields against the wellbeing of children and vulnerable users.
“Section 230 has become a shield from accountability for Big Tech’s bad faith decisions to cause harm in pursuit of profit,” Pinter asserted.
Faith-driven advocates and lawmakers agree: it is time to place the duty of care for our children and families above corporate interests and greed.
Let us challenge lawmakers to fulfill their sacred trust, standing firm on Christian moral foundations to ensure no family suffers these tragedies without hope for justice.