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.
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?"
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."
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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)"