⚠️ Here's info that paints the urgency around the internet bills.
There is a minimum of 36 hours between passing from subcommittee to when it can be voted on in committee. It sounds like they are trying to slam it through.
Call your reps!
https://www.techpolicy.press/house-subcommittee-advances-18-child-online-safety-bills/
#BadInternetBills #Censorship #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #ScreenAct #Section230 #Section230Reform #USpol #USgov #Privacy #PoliticalAction #resist #UScongress #Section230 #OnlineIDcheck #KOSA #SCREENAct #EarnItAct #CooperDavisAct #stopcsam
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing committee.
🚨⚠️ URGENT ‼️ Congress is pushing through 18 bills that could age-gate and censor the internet as we speak.
Call the House Energy and Commerce committee + your own representatives and tell them you OPPOSE these efforts!
#BadInternetBills #Censorship #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #ScreenAct #Section230 #Section230Reform #USpol #USgov #Privacy #PoliticalAction #resist #UScongress #Section230 #OnlineIDcheck #KOSA #SCREENAct #EarnItAct #CooperDavisAct #stopcsam
RE: https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides/115727078744271749
I say this about every Privacy Guides video, because it is repeatedly true, but this video is our best one yet 🤩 https://youtu.be/q0hE4EM7RRo
And this is an absolutely critical watch if you're in the U.S.A., or at least contact your reps via https://www.badinternetbills.com/ if you don't watch. The bills being proposed (largely by Democrats, they are not fighting for you!) will have a devastating global impact on free speech and privacy online.
#AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #KOSA #ScreenAct #Section230 #Section230Reform #USpol #USgov #Privacy #Censorship #Activism #Interview #TaylorLorenz #PrivacyGuides #BadInternetBills
Last week in the United States of America, Congress began fast-tracking nearly 20 bills in a massive effort to enact massive censorship on the internet, decimate your ability to use computers privately, and severely restrict free speech online.
We sat down with @taylorlorenz to dissect these 'Bad Internet Bills' and what you need to know to stop them: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/12/16/taylor-lorenz-on-kosa-the-screen-act-and-repealing-section-230/
https://neat.tube/w/tS3ho29H2YTJJjEh8sXuNy
https://youtu.be/q0hE4EM7RRo
#KOSA #BadInternetBills #SCREENAct #AppStoreAccountabilityAct #USpol #USgov #Trump #Censorship #Privacy #AgeVerification #TaylorLorenz #USA #US #PrivacyGuides #Video
Nate Bartram sat down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher the slate of bills being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.
#badinternetbills alert: USA Edition
Ends anonymity online. Ends encryption. Increases government surveillance.
These bills passed initial committee and move to full committee. It's #ChatControl and #AgeGatedInternet for the US, ending encryption for gov or corp surveillance on ALL messaging and also require ID for most things. They hope we are too distracted.
https://www.badinternetbills.com/ (dont give them your info unlessyou want to)
Contact your reps immediately *please* and share the message.
As expected, the House subcommittee voted today to advance #KOSA and the other bills in the package (including the App Store Accountability Act, the SCREEN Act, and COPPA 2.0). Somewhat surprisingly, though, they had voice votes on KOSA and COPPA -- and all the Democrats voted against them. So there certainly isn't a bipartisan consensus!
To be clear, a lot of the D's voted against KOSA for a not-so-good reason: the House version removes the unconstitutional "duty of care" from the Senate version, and Rep. Kim Schreier (D-WA) and another D on the committee spoke passionately about the need to restore it. No! Please don't do that! LBGTQIA2S+,, reproductive justice, civil rights, and digital rights organizations have long opposed KOSA's duty of care because it would give Trump's FTC the power to sue apps and websites that don’t take measures to “prevent and mitigate” various harms to minors that are vague enough to chill a significant amount of protected speech.
Still, no matter what the reasons are, it's very good that the D's voted against it -- it highlights that there isn't consensus. And as some of the speakers on the live stream @fight hosted during the markup highlighted, some of the D's may well have been against it for some of the right reasons too.
So thanks to everybody who took action! As Fight highlighted, the wave of literally thousands of calls this week got noticed, so your activism really does make a difference!
(Here's the recording of the livestream -- it's a really excellent discussion, with a ton of insights on the political process in general as well as the specific bills.)
NEW: Our latest report examines the impact of flawed internet law, FOSTA-SESTA and how it has caused widespread harm for those at the intersection of sex work + other marginalized identities—especially LGBTQ+ individuals. Share widely!
#BadInternetBills #sestafosta #internet #censorship
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/impact-report-FOSTA-SESTA.pdf
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