The TAG Movement
Policy Agenda

Parents and kids are too often left to figure out platform safety on their own, but product safety should be the responsibility of the companies, not the users. Companies that build tech products or online platforms used by kids and teens should be required by law to make those products safe from the start. We need policies and politicians that hold the companies responsible for their design choices and real oversight to keep them accountable.

AI companions, chatbots, and EdTech platforms are reaching kids before anyone has shown they are safe and effective. Classrooms are not a place for tech companies to experiment. Companies must prove safety and efficacy before their products are put in front of kids, not years after they have already caused harm.

Social media should have a meaningful minimum age of 16, unless the platform has proven it is safe by design. Companies should be required to enforce minimum age requirements for unsafe platforms, instead of merely offering age assurance methods that kids can easily get around.

Every school should be phone-free from bell to bell, with defined exceptions for medical and special-needs accommodations. Kids can’t focus, learn, and connect with the nonstop pull of apps and notifications, and educators shouldn’t be asked to compete with devices.

Kids need space to build independence in the real world. Experiences like playing with friends at the park or running small errands on their own help them grow into capable, connected, and confident adolescents and adults. Policies should enable childhood independence, prioritize opportunities for connection in the real world, and help create communities where kids can flourish.