Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act).

If you’re in the US, https://www.stopkosa.com/ makes it easy to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose KOSA.

"A new bill called the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, is sailing towards passage in the Senate with bipartisa>n support. Among other things, this bill would give the attorney general of every state, including red states, the right to sue Internet platforms if they allow any content that is deemed harmful to minors. This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don’t even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people.

The right wing Heritage Foundation has already stated publicly that the GOP will use this provision to remove any discussions of trans or queer lives from the Internet. They’re salivating over the prospect.

And yep, I did say this bill has bipartisan support. Many Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. And President Joe Biden has urged lawmakers to pass this bill in the strongest possible terms."

  • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Stuff like this could very easily end up affecting interstate and international laws and trade in the long run. If you depend on a conservative nanny state, eventually you’re likely to be forced to conform to their rules to continue that essential relationship. Or else you get wise and onshore your needs and re-source the ones that you can’t onshore.

    I’m never having children, and I disagree with anyone who is having them. I don’t care what surveillance net you create for people who want to subject themselves to it, just leave mine alone. History tells me I’m going to lose this fight.

    Watch them go after any material that would be taught after age 12 next. Easy way to dumb your population down to the point they might as well be dairy cattle with the right to vote. Want to learn to code? Go through a state propaganda center and get a license to read the controlled literature.