Current Events > The Kids Online Safety Act is still gaining steam in Congress for some reason

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/the-kids-online-safety-act-isnt-all-right-critics-say/

This is essentially a bipartisan bill that completely violates the 1st Amendment, supposedly to protect children from "harmful" content. It has been revised from its earlier form, but what is is trying to do is fundamentally flawed. Democrats seem hellbent on pretending this is really about protecting children and is therefore good, while Republicans have been making noises about wanting to use it to censor LGBT content. Some groups who opposed previous versions of the bill have backed off on opposing the current amended version, but big power houses like the ACLU are still dead set against it.

Proponents claim that the people against the bill are misrepresenting what it says and will do. I don't think so, but check it out and form your own opinion. Like most bipartisan legislation, I don't think anyone of any political leaning really wants this to pass.

You can also read the EFF's most recent take on it here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill

This thing has way too many sponsors. For real, if you don't like what this bill intends to do, please actually call or email your representatives and let them know that you don't want this to pass.

Bump!

darkmaian23 posted...

Proponents claim that the people against the bill are misrepresenting what it says and will do.

They irony being that it's the proponents themselves misrepresenting the bill.

darkmaian23 posted...

Proponents claim that the people against the bill are misrepresenting what it says and will do.

They always say that, and it's never true. People know exactly what it says and that's why they are worried that a bunch of elderly people who have no idea how technology works are making decisions like this for everyone else.

This would effectively kill porn on the internet wouldnt it?

tldr on what's actually in the bill?

Hopefully it collapses like every attempt by the UK to try and implement similar laws.

Funkydog posted...

Hopefully it collapses like every attempt by the UK to try and implement similar laws.

America is dumb enough to let this go through honestly. The only part of politics we care about is screaming at opposing parties, fuck anything that actually has a legitimate effect.

R_Jackal posted...

America is dumb enough to let this go through honestly. The only part of politics we care about is screaming at opposing parties, fuck anything that actually has a legitimate effect.

The UK was dumb enough to pass it.

Repeatedly.

And everytime it collapsed and was shuffled away after failing to even crawl an inch.

Since it happened relatively recently. There was the whole Mississippi enacting that dumb ID verification law. When it became active, I and others, made comments/thoughts it'd basically do nothing of actual good and basically just be a way to attack other political figures.

What happened since? Basically nothing, yet. There's libraries and schools that are now prevented from providing books to kids, and about a week after it came into effect there was already political ads accusing others of not protecting kids from porn in the classroom. Literally accusing the other party for providing porn to kids.

"It's for the children!" uttered probably by the same clunks that wanna break their fingers for being painted or want them to be unaware of being abused.

That's about all I have on that... "it's for the children" is actually starting to live up to the whole ulterior motive saying.

It's always about "protecting children" with these things, isn't it?

Solar_Crimson posted...

It's always about "protecting children" with these things, isn't it?

And it's super effective. Regardless of whether it's true or not, people fall for it every single time.

Let's kill our freedom to "protect" the children that we are too incompetent and too busy to raise because we have to run around and work 24/7/365 in order to support our family unit. A schedule that was imposed by the very system that we could change if only we were competent and intelligent enough to do so.

Aressar posted...

And it's super effective. Regardless of whether it's true or not, people fall for it every single time.

Yeah, its the magic bullet. Its especially audacious coming from the Republican Party given how many of them keep getting caught with certain things

Dark_Arbron posted...

Yeah, its the magic bullet. Its especially audacious coming from the Republican Party given how many of them keep getting caught with certain things

You gotta remember that most of these politicians don't write the very legislation they sign off on. It is literally lobbyist groups and corporate interest groups that bring them the bills and they just sponser them.