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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."

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

American here, and I am totally OK with a tiny bit of extra latency if people & companies want to move their servers to some place in Europe that actually respects freedom and people.

Though I suspect that if you’re a US company with servers located abroad, they will still make the law apply to you since you control it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if people & companies want to move their servers to some place in Europe that actually respects freedom and people.

implying the EU respects freedom

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Relative to this new proposal from the US gov....um yeah. The EU is far more free online. No Patriot Act or NDAA either.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to say something about giving it to gypsies and you could probably literally see European fervor to ban something. Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Clearly you don't know "Europeans" and have never net a gypsy.