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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] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No!!! Not when porn is so easy to get these days! I need my daily dosage. If this goes through, the we won't have access to California's greatest stars ✨🤩 in the business. Everything will be smaller and lower quality and possibly not in English. I only watch the videos for the articles. But if the articles are all in dutch or Chinese or Japanese, how am I supposed to you know? Like do my thing. You know?

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

Wha... What the fuck!?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So the internet is going to become just like Lemmy and Reddit.

Or have you never been banned/censored/deleted for bullshit reasons?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I like Lemmy more than Reddit because the former doesn't ban me because I posted on a Sunday that doesn't start in the middle of the week.

[–] nuxetcrux 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a feeling you get banned from all sorts of shit

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

You just went through my history, downvoted the most recent 10, and left a mean reply to each.

Hmmm.

Lemme guess. Banned from Reddit? Ya, me too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, I just signed this petition. Luckily my lawmaker is already against these bills.

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

I don't know if that's lucky. It means you are at the wims of others you can not influence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Awfully bad idea

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

Can a federal bill require state AGs to do something? Most of the bills I've heard of give resources to state actors if they agree to do something that the federal government requires.

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

Attent #452625 at destroying the Internet and counting.

They only need to succeed big once or small a couple of times. They already succeeded small big many times so yeah. Enjoy the internet while it lasts, 5 years from now it will be unrecognizeable and a fraction of what we have now.

But at least the kids are safe because THAT is why we are doing this, right? RIGHT?

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