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

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darkmaian23
02/18/2024
08:37 PM
#1
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.
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UnfairRepresent
02/18/2024
08:41 PM
#2
"Won't someone please think of the children!"
^ Hey now that's completely unfair!
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Humble_Novice
02/18/2024
08:43 PM
#3
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.
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tremain07
02/18/2024
08:44 PM
#4
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
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Humble_Novice
02/18/2024
08:45 PM
#5
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.
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OwlRammer
02/18/2024
08:52 PM
#6
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! :]
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FortuneCookie
02/18/2024
08:54 PM
#7
Disgusting.
ironman2009
02/18/2024
08:57 PM
#8
i miss the old internet
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Gwynevere
02/18/2024
08:58 PM
#9
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
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UnfairRepresent
02/20/2024
04:34 AM
#10
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
^ Hey now that's completely unfair!
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R_Jackal
02/20/2024
04:39 AM
#11
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.
008Zulu
02/20/2024
04:43 AM
#12
An offline safety act would be nice.
If you're not smart enough to survive, you are basically just food for something smarter.
BlueKat
02/20/2024
04:45 AM
#13
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...
There is no good. There is no evil. There just is.
viewmaster_pi
02/20/2024
04:48 AM
#14
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
No clues, no trace
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Thompson
02/20/2024
04:51 AM
#15
Would this just not cause most websites to relocate to countries that don't require IDs to access their content?
Sigs are rather pointless, except if it's to showcase animation and images.
R_Jackal
02/20/2024
05:04 AM
#16
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.
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