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The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are claiming—again—that the latest version won’t censor online content. It isn’t true. This bill still sets up a censorship regime …

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The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone | Techdirt

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The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are claiming—again—that the latest version won’t censor online content. It isn’t true. This bill still sets up a censorship regime …

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Blumenthal So Eager To Bring Back KOSA, He Admits Its Purpose Is Censorship | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/09/blumenthal-so-eager-to-bring-back-kosa-he-admits-its-purpose-is-censorship/

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Blumenthal So Eager To Bring Back KOSA, He Admits Its Purpose Is Censorship

Senator Richard Blumenthal is at it again. The long-time Connecticut Senator, who never met an internet regulation he didn’t like, is eager to reintroduce his Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) — …

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KOSA... aka Kids Online "Safety" Act is an equivalent to 1984, or rather CCP China's Surveillance System.

This is BAD!!! America is now becoming 1984's Oceania!!!

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ExTwitter’s Last-Minute Update To Kids Online Safety Act Still Fails To Protect Kids—Or Adults—Online | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/18/extwitters-last-minute-update-to-kids-online-safety-act-still-fails-to-protect-kids-or-adults-online/

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ExTwitter’s Last-Minute Update To Kids Online Safety Act Still Fails To Protect Kids—Or Adults—Online

Last week, the Senate released yet another version of the Kids Online Safety Act, written, reportedly, with the assistance of X CEO Linda Yaccarino in a flawed attempt to address the critical free …

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Blumenthal’s Blatant Hypocrisy: Praising Musk’s ‘Free Speech’ Support for Censorial KOSA Bill | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/13/blumenthals-blatant-hypocrisy-praising-musks-free-speech-support-for-censorial-kosa-bill/

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Blumenthal’s Blatant Hypocrisy: Praising Musk’s ‘Free Speech’ Support for Censorial KOSA Bill

There are few Senators quite as pathetic as Richard Blumenthal. He has a long history of an ignorant vendetta against tech companies (even pre-dating his time in the Senate), and he never ever both…

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New KOSA, Same As Old KOSA, But Now With Elon’s Ignorant Endorsement | Techdirt

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New KOSA, Same As Old KOSA, But Now With Elon’s Ignorant Endorsement

The censors are making a big push on the new version of “KOSPA,” which is the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) merged with a problematic privacy bill (hence the “P”). Over the weekend, Senator Marsha …

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KOSA Advances Out Of House Committee, But Cracks Are Showing

This morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a pretty long markup about KOSA, COPPA 2.0, and other bills. The quick summary is that both of those bills passed out of committee and cou…

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House Looks To Make KOSA And COPPA Worse

If you had that Congress was going to take bad “protect the children” bills and make them worse on your bingo card, congratulations, you’ve won this week’s easiest prediction. This seems like a not…

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The New U.S. House Version of KOSA Doesn’t Fix Its Biggest Problems | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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The New U.S. House Version of KOSA Doesn’t Fix Its Biggest Problems

An amended version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that is being considered this week in the U.S. House is still a dangerous online censorship bill that contains many of the same fundamental problems of a similar version the Senate passed in July. The changes to the House bill do not alter...

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