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.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/

Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage

We’ve talked a lot about just how bad the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is. Yet some people (including people who, frankly, should know better) keep trying to tell me how well meaning it is. It’s n…

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@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?"

@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 @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)"