Jason Syversen

I've lived in NH my entire adult life and raised 6 children here and spent my career in technology. (BAE, Defense department, Siege Technologies, venture capital/10X Venture partners, now running an AI company!) I also serve on the board of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and have seen the testimonies from parents who's children killed themselves due to accessing harmful content, the damage of addiction. And the numerous steps parents have to take to TRY to secure their devices. Even with a masters degree in electrical engineering and a career in software/hacking it's hard for ME to keep up with the unique settings for every single platform which are constantly changing and not designed to protect children and don't care about the collateral harm that is caused. Tech companies try to pretend that parents are "outsourcing parenting to them". But we have laws forcing stores to not sell pornography to children. Or cigarettes. In fact it's hard to find an industry that is NOT touched by child protection laws (schools, government, retail, tech, transportation, etc.) It is a burden on retail establishments to enforce those laws but we have them because parents cannot be with their child every second of every day, and it wouldn't be healthy if they were. This is a common sense bill that is not hard for them to implement to ensure that parents approve of the minor accessing adult content on platforms. This bill is part of a national and even global movement to implement common safe safeguards to require billion (or trillion!) dollar companies to make simple, small steps to make sure that children have to have parental approval to access adult content on their platforms. Let's be part of that movement and stop ignoring the harms that happen because lobbyists are telling our state what to do and want their clients to prioritize profits over simple, common sense safeguards. Please approve this legislation.