Electronic Frontier Foundation
If you’re a teenager, the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) could have a disastrous impact on your ability to use many apps, platforms, and websites. Here’s why you should oppose it. #STOPKOSA #BadInternetBills https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/young-people-should-oppose-kids-online-safety-act
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...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jul 27, 2023 at 6:37pmWeb
Show threadfluffery Jul 27, 2023
@eff ig @Crystals we gonnya break the law ​:glow_dance:​ rack them charges ​​
Show threadCrystalsJul 27, 2023
@fluffery @eff @wamuu hey I know your a lazy fuck but please get off your ass here and bully your local senator because this whole idea is retarded
Show threadKiraJul 27, 2023
@eff oh incredible, not only are we being attacked for being gay and trans we’re being attacked for being minors.
Show threadAntonJul 28, 2023
@eff Everyone should oppose #KOSA. If age verification becomes necessary due to content filtering based on age, everyone who uses a service that is impacted by KOSA will have to give up a bit of their privacy, or stop using the service.
Show threadijo StellaJul 28, 2023
@eff what does this mean for the fediverse? if this does go into effect, should i migrate away from my american-hosted instance to a european one?
Show threadAndre_601  ​Jul 28, 2023
@eff First #COPPA now #KOSA
Polititians really like to "protect" children... by making the internet an overall worse place.
Show threadwrikent3500Jul 29, 2023
@eff and for 2SLGBTQ+ Kids,Tweens and Teens this act would make it hard to find information, services, safe sites and spaces plus if we're talking Tweens and Teens add In looking for images or video of gay teens and well...winding up under Investigation on child porn charges when all your doing is looking for people like yourself