The House Has Acted. Now the Senate Must Protect Digital Rights.

My fellow petitioners,

The U.S. House has passed the KIDS Act.

Like many modern internet bills, it is presented under a title few people would dare oppose: protecting children.

Every parent wants children to be safe.

The question has never been whether children should be protected.

The question is whether these laws protect children while also preserving the constitutional rights of everyone else.

The Digital Liberty Act exists because too many proposals ask citizens to surrender privacy, anonymity, and lawful expression first, while promising that their rights will somehow remain intact later.

History suggests otherwise.

Age-verification systems require people to identify themselves before accessing lawful online services.

Those systems depend on collecting, transmitting, or verifying personal information.

Every additional identity checkpoint creates another target for hackers, criminals, hostile governments, or data brokers.

Recent years have already shown massive credential leaks, identity theft, and repeated failures to secure sensitive information.

Yet the proposed solution continues to be the same:

• Collect more data.
• Require more identification.
• Expand verification.
• Trust the system.

The burden does not fall on government.

It falls on ordinary citizens and small businesses.

Adults increasingly face demands to prove who they are simply to access lawful content or services, while businesses are expected to implement costly compliance systems with little assurance that privacy and security will be preserved.

Digital rights should not become casualties of well-intentioned legislation.

Privacy.

Anonymous lawful speech.

Secure commerce.

Digital property.

Due process.

These rights deserve protection before—not after—new systems are built.

The House has acted.

The conversation is now moving to the Senate.

This is precisely why the Digital Liberty Act was written: to ensure that protecting children does not come at the unnecessary expense of the privacy, security, and liberties of law-abiding adults.

If you believe digital rights deserve the same protection as traditional civil rights, please continue sharing the Digital Liberty Act.

The conversation is only beginning.

— Jaiden Cross

Digital Liberty Act