by Kit Knightly
WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 8, 2026 - Yesterday, the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) House of Representatives quietly passed a bundle of “digital protections” collectively labelled the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (KIDS Act).
You might not have heard of it because FPSA news was focused on other things, like the Supreme Court refusing to review the civil verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, or that they would continue to count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.
As is usually the case, the truly important news found itself buried behind things that never happened and things that don’t matter.
What is in the FPSA’s Digital Safety Act? The same things that are in everyone else’s, obviously. Digital ID this, age verification that.
The Act is effectively a package of clauses and sections from other Acts. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0), Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act, Safeguarding Adolescents from Exploitative (SAFE) Bots Act, and the Safer Guarding of Adolescents from Malicious Interactions on Network Games (GAMING) Act.
The unfortunate truth is the details do not really matter. As we have seen already with Spain, the Fascist United Kingdom, Australia, Canada et al. the actual measures and rules may have cosmetic differences, but in the end they share one important similarity: the only way to enforce them is age verification.
This is true of social media bans, or screen time limits, or algorithm exemptions, or disabling infinite scrolling or nudity filters or… any of them.
Whatever is or isn’t in the KIDS Act, it will need you to verify your age by biometrics or digital ID in order to work.
Just like everywhere else.
It passed the House with bipartisan support. It will probably pass the Senate too; if it doesn’t, it will be branded as a “victory for small government,” and the individual states will just pass their own legislation. As many already have.
President Trump’s MAGA will be just like the “liberal” countries he despises and who claim to despise him.