Current Events > The Kids Online Safety Act has enough votes to pass in the Senate

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act

If you haven't seen it before, KOSA is a censorship and age verification vehicle that is blatantly unconstitutional, packaged together with some ideas that might benefit kids so lawmakers can point and ask why you don't want to help kids when you tell them not to pass this. The bill is bipartisan, so it isn't just Republicans or Democrats here. The bill would give state officials the ability to enact political censorship if they are crafty about it (think stiffing LGBT+ content), though efforts have been made to hide that fact.

Please give that a glance and contact your representatives in both the House and Senate and say no to KOSA.

"Won't someone please think of the children!"

If it passes through the Senate, it'll have to go through the House and be signed by Biden. Hopefully, AOC and the Squad have some kind of plan to kill KOSA.
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1758323310243221811

The death of privacy is almost complete, the government and corporations will control every single aspect of our lives and it will be with bipartisan support

tremain07 posted...

The death of privacy is almost complete, the government and corporations will control every single aspect of our lives and it will be with bipartisan support

And this will hurt just about everyone including conservative voters.

They need to make a law where if something like this passes that uses child or children or kids or whatever in the name, whoever named it that need to pay for everything in it

tremain07 posted...

The death of privacy is almost complete, the government and corporations will control every single aspect of our lives and it will be with bipartisan support

at least all the kids will be safe! :]

Disgusting.

i miss the old internet

All this shit is just a gigantic waste of time. The Internet is a sort of Pandora's box that they'll never really be able to wrangle, no matter how many bills they pass

Gwynevere posted...

All this shit is just a gigantic waste of time. The Internet is a sort of Pandora's box that they'll never really be able to wrangle, no matter how many bills they pass

What a lazy take

They're just trying to kill the Internet so we all move to chatbots, because then what information we get will be even easier to control.

An offline safety act would be nice.

UnfairRepresent posted...

What a lazy take

He's not wrong though. If this passes, which I highly doubt, it will just cause a cluster fuck of court cases as the vast majority of websites would lose major traffic. Also, this shit is already happening on the state level with some places requiring age verification on some websites, and it's definitely not going well...

it's bizarre to even think about. like what are they gonna do, demand ALL websites suspend and freeze all existing accounts until people hand over their IDs and change their usernames to their full legal names? it's insane and will straight up destroy places like this

Would this just not cause most websites to relocate to countries that don't require IDs to access their content?

Thompson posted...

Would this just not cause most websites to relocate to countries that don't require IDs to access their content?

On the one hand it would be easier to do this.

On the other, this makes data collection and the profiteering done with it far more reliable and gives them free license to deep dive people, basically.