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OpenAI’s KOSA Endorsement Is Regulatory Capture With A Smiley Face

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/14/openais-kosa-endorsement-is-regulatory-capture-with-a-smiley-face/

OpenAI’s KOSA Endorsement Is Regulatory Capture With A Smiley Face

Earlier this week, OpenAI became the latest tech company to publicly endorse KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act. The company, conveniently, tries to frame this as being about its support of child saf…

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Blake C. Stacey 4d ago

In case you needed any convincing that the Kids Online Safety Sct is a bad thing

https://www.theverge.com/policy/929563/openai-endorses-the-kids-online-safety-act

#KOSA

OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act.

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ARGVMI~1.PIF 5d ago

Looked up the #KOSMA https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s278/text and #KOSA https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s1748/text bills, which have been driving my anxiety for months because of their #freeSpeech implications.

The former explicitly does not apply to sites/apps that don't have ads and don't sell users' personally-identifiable information. The latter explicitly does not apply to non-profits.

That means Fedi, XMPP, IRC, forums, etc are all exempt.

Chat, you have NO IDEA how relieved I am right now.

#censorship #ageVerification

Text of S. 278: Kids Off Social Media Act (Reported by Senate Committee version) - GovTrack.us

Text of S. 278: Kids Off Social Media Act as of June 30, 2025 (Reported by Senate Committee version). S. 278: Kids Off Social Media Act

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Felis Floppus May 6

Debunking CNN's Viral 62 Million Men Hoax

https://youtu.be/mvzQ0WPzRSo

#bigtech #section230 #christiannationalism #feminism #taylorlorenz #exoduscry #kosa #propaganda #cnn #fosta #sesta #journalism #genderviolence

Yet again, we have been had.

P Gurgel-Segrillo Mar 27

it's more about surveillance than actually protecting children

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/

#SocilaMedia #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #FreeSpeech #SocialMediaAddiction #TechNews #Privacy #Censorship #BigTech #Section230 #KOSA

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…

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📡 RightToPrivacy & Tech Tips Mar 25

Lobbying Behind Age Verification In Operating Systems | KOSA Push

#ageverification #digitalID #privacyMatters #KOSA #KOSMA #Linux #Android #iphone #iOS #apple

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/4oaAydkAwLgdbJVfAR7jaM

Lobbying For Age Verification | KOSA Push

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(RTP) Privacy & Tech Tips Mar 25

Lobbying For Age Verification | KOSA Push

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/4oaAydkAwLgdbJVfAR7jaM

Lobbying For Age Verification | KOSA Push

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Go Weapons Hot Mar 24

"...bills like the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) would open the door to greater surveillance, censorship and control of what people can do online. Those same #freespeech advocates say the evidence lies in what happened to sex workers after the passage of the bills known as Allow States and Victims To Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (#FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (#SESTA) in 2018.

#Censorship

https://traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC5614462230.mp3?updated=1772606053