The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse
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We've all watched in horror as red states have banned books in schools and libraries. We've seen teachers fired merely for reading a book about gender...

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."

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. At the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, both Cantwell and Markey said they had heard from a lot of consituents about the bill’s problems, especially for LGBTQ+ people, and that there’s work to do before going forward … so at least the pushback is getting noticed.

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        There is no question that if this bill is passed, some fucker corrupt crony like Ashley Moody will use it to isolate and persecute queer, trans, or black kids by labeling content that supports them as “harmful”.

        A bill like this will kill kids.

    • Micromot@lemmycook.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      And then these snowflakes complain how much censorship there is in the internet and how they can’t post their hateful shit

  • SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    How many of those child protect acts has it been already? It gets rejected and they keep coming back. If I were a cynical man (as opposed to apple cheeked bunny rabbit of a boy) I’d say it doesn’t have anything to do with children.

  • Pratai@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

    Conservatives are the biggest cowardly snowflakes that the world ever has ever or will ever see.

    • sylverstream@lemmy.nz
      2·
      1 year ago

      I made the mistake to look up The Heritage Foundation. What a misinformation on their site, eg also denying climate change :(

      • Pratai@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        Similar to the joke that PragerU is. What a heap of rhetoric and agenda based psychobabble.