Please do not take any of what is written here as expertise, I can only give my opinion as a layperson on these issues. This is concerning the recent Senate Bill, S. 1748 which you can read by clicking here. You can click on the images below to open them up in a more readable tab / window.

So, I was totally ready to fight this bill based upon the Youtuber Chibi’s recent video, but I believe he may have made a reasonable mistake. The UK’s policies are obviously frightening and seeing a bill with a similar name in the US can create alarm bells, but after seeing my senator Chuck Schumer had endorsed the bill and I know he’s usually the one sending detailed responses on occasion whenever I have frustrations or criticisms; so, I decided to read the Bill to see if it was different from the UK situation. Thus, I took the time to read bill S. 1748 of the US Senate and it’s pretty reasonable from what I’ve read.

It mainly targets companies for trying to target children with microtransactions in games, it forbids allowing companies to stop gameplay mid-game to impose microtransactions, and it thoroughly discourages and penalizes companies for using or having any personal data of children. I think the bill assumes there’s the standard age verification of putting in our date of birth in either community forums or general profiles for games or game systems. This is generally what it does:

The Safeguards for Minors:

The definition of Microtransactions, which is one of the chief aspects that the Senate Bill wants to thwart. A significant portion is opposed to companies being able to scam minors:
Other parts of the Bill:

There is this curious part about how individually, the companies can still collect data on minors for some parts to personalize content for them, but minors can always opt-out or be given the opportunity to always opt-out if I’m understanding this bill correctly:

The only really troubling part I could find is this segment about terms and conditions that individual companies can set. I think it just needs an addendum that companies absolutely cannot use biometric / PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data and then I think it should be fine:

There’s nothing about biometric data, fingerprints, PII, or DNA on the bill from what I read. I think all we need to actually do is email our Congresspeople to request that companies CANNOT use Biometric data, Fingerprints, PII information, or DNA of any kind for age verification requirements and maybe cite what we did to those poor Afghans who are now living under a dystopian US-made super-surveillance system under the Sharia of the Taliban.

7/30/2025 Update: Youtuber Chibi Reviews seems to be 100% correct about S.737 – SCREEN Act, that is a willful violation of core Constitutional freedoms of all Americans, especially a violation of our Fourth Amendment Rights and only Republicans are supporting a sponsoring of it so far.