Ashley Malone
Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️⚧Seriously, call your Senators now. This needs to be stopped before it goes any further. They want to drive LGBTQIA+ off the internet entirely, and Democrats are on board.
The Nexus of Privacy@charliejane Yes, #KOSA is horrible and would easpecially hurt LGBTQIA+ people -- and a lot of Democrats are on board.
For people who are in the US, https://www.stopkosa.com/ lets you phone or send a message to you're Congress.
nedhamson@charliejane give id, name and address everyone - forget 1st amendment and privacy - you can’t be serious- you better bot be serious!
Thomas 🚀 SFF180@charliejane What the f?
bsky: @daniloc.xyz@charliejane called, thank you for the heads up
Blake C. Stacey@charliejane Just called. A script I threw together for myself:
"Hi, this is [name] from [city]. The Kids Online Safety Act is a bad bill with a wholesome name. The ACLU has been explaining how terrible it is for years, the Heritage Foundation has admitted that they'll use it to make trans kids' lives hell, and there just isn't an argument about it any more. But now it's being redrafted out of the public eye, with no input from civil-liberties or LGBTQ rights groups, and all we hear are leaks to Axios about yet another privacy-imperiling age-verification requirement maybe being shoved in. Can we please get a clear-cut rejection of this bill and some good legislation instead?"
@charliejane Axios item referred to:
<< Meanwhile, Sen. Brian Schatz is trying to shore up support to include language from his Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. Schatz's amendment would prohibit social media platforms that know a user is under the age of 17 from using the personal information of that user in a personalized recommendation system. It further states that an individual’s self-attestation of age is insufficient alone to establish that a social media platform does not know that an individual is under the age of 17. >>
There it is: "an individual's self-attestation of age is insufficient".
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2023/07/25/kids-online-safety-act-workshopped-ahead-of-vote
(It's paywalled, but can be read in an awkward form by viewing the page source.)
Aubrey ♀@bstacey @charliejane any thoughts about appealing to republican senators about this? I feel like my senators (Rick Scott/Marco Rubio) would probably be more excited about the bill if I told them the bill could be used to attack queer adults and children
@Aubrey @charliejane You could say that blue states could declare that teenagers can't learn about guns. Oh, and that it will drive websites everywhere to use age verification technology, and the biggest provider of that is owned by the same company that owns PornHub. Ask if they want to make it federal law for teenagers to pose for PornHub.
@Aubrey @charliejane And maybe say something about how Internet regulation is red tape and government interference. It's bad for Americans everywhere if the only way to get into tech is to have a giant legal department. The more Washington mucks around with laws that Democrats just want so they can send a message, the harder it is for the free market to hold Big Tech accountable.
@Aubrey @charliejane "Kids safety, and how we keep our kids safe online, is the responsibility of the parents, not some bureaucrat at the FTC or an Attorney General in Massachusetts."
Grassroots Joe
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@Aubrey @bstacey @charliejane Maybe tell them it will most likely lead to websites requiring users to sign up with their drivers license, which will allow the "woke mobs" to more easily find and "cancel" "Red Blooded Americans(tm)"
hanscees@charliejane @lisamelton Let's translate
Kids online safety act => we want to spy on your communication
Safety health act => you frigging pour people can't cost us rich people money peasants
Guns to protect us act => let's make money and kill as many as possible act
Kids online safety act => we want to spy on your communication
Safety health act => you frigging pour people can't cost us rich people money peasants
Guns to protect us act => let's make money and kill as many as possible act
LucifarGundam*Cough cough*
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/young-people-should-oppose-kids-online-safety-act
#eff #electronicfrontierfoundation #ElectronicFrontierFoundationEFF
Young People Should Oppose the Kids Online Safety Act
Next week, Congress plans to move a bill forward that is opposed by dozens of organizations, digital rights protectors, LGBTQ+ activists, and human rights defenders: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). As we’ve written before, KOSA would lead to censorship and privacy invasions for all social media...
Jamie and the more@charliejane My senators are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. They ain't gonna do anything that doesn't benefit themselves.
sadmac356@barauna94 yeah I feel that…I just wanna exist
ℵ0i hate this fucking country 
Bruce Mirken@charliejane Yikes. My senator, Brian Schatz, is a cosponsor.
Misuse Case@BruceMirken @charliejane Schatz wants parents to control and helicopter their kids just as much as any Republican does, I STG
John LuskWow, these things are never gonna stop, are they?
David A. Pirata Informático 
@charliejane This is great, but I'm blessed and cursed with Ron Wyden as my Senator. I'll send a note, but I already know where he stands.
The Great Llama 
@riskymanag3ment @charliejane
He and Merkley aren't on board with this, are they? I'm pretty sure I wrote them both about this before, but I just did again.
He and Merkley aren't on board with this, are they? I'm pretty sure I wrote them both about this before, but I just did again.
@TheGreatLlama @charliejane Wyden and Merkeley both oppose this policy staunchly. I've had convos with both during their local town halls.
@riskymanag3ment @charliejane
That's what I assumed. They have their flaws, but they both seem to usually be on the right side of shit like this.
That's what I assumed. They have their flaws, but they both seem to usually be on the right side of shit like this.
GUILTY! Confiscation! Death Penalty!@charliejane it's all about the kids but they never listen to us
Rhode PVD@charliejane JFC #rhodeisland Senator Whitehouse is one of the sponsors of this bill.
Writing him now…
knizer@Rhodepvd @charliejane UGH - hey my #RhodeIsland and #Connecticut peeps - This partisan #KOSA bill in the senate is problematic.
#RIpol and #CTpol If you have a moment, please take a look into this - Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI) and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) are sponsors. They need to hear from you, today.
@knizer I have emailed Sen Whitehouse about this bill. More people need to
ActualCannibalPanda@charliejane the fuck is wrong with world?
Zero Septimus Enigma@charliejane i joked about you needing to upload legal documents before you could use the internet in a dystopian setting but it could possibly become a real thing. strange world we're living in.
★♪CandyRushSweetest♪★This is horrible. They should just leave the internet the way it is tbh! I wish they would stop making these STUPID acts! They're LITERALLY RUINING THE INTERNET!
If everything is moderated, where's the freedom? Privacy is something that has also been brought into this. It's horrible. Respect privacy and LGBT youth. That's all I ask, Jesus Christ. They legit want you to provide stuff that could be used against you in a huge internet BREACH!!
ljean@charliejane I can understand why Republicans would want it, but Democrats demanding their constituents not be able to speak online under the pressure parents and schools is ludicrous. And mean.