Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️⚧This is legit scary. Marsha Blackburn is openly admitting that her bill KOSA will be used to drive trans people off the internet.
But Democrats are lining up to support it, and LGBTQIA+ orgs have dropped their opposition. WTF WTF WTF
mochaandmuses 😈@charliejane not only that, Bill S.1409 is badly written with so much vagueness that I doubt it would stand up in court. Some of the wording can easily tread on 1st amendment grounds and get shut down. Luckily though, it's in committee and @GovTrack is only giving it a 31% chance of even surviving there. Hopefully the bill will die right there like it did last legislative session.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s1409
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s1409
rin ft ?!system@itwasntme223 @GovTrack @charliejane the problem with relying on it being unconstitutional via being too fucking vague (which it pretty plainly is from what we understand) is the current supreme court
considering it died last legislative season in committee, hopefully it will again this time as well, but it only takes one time where it doesn't to basically kill the open internet inside the US
@rin @GovTrack @charliejane Oh, I agree the Supreme Court is the issue too but that's kind of a long term issue to get to. If the bill becomes law, it's gotta first move through the Federal Court system which is suing, injunction, appeal, trial about the law, appeal (for whoever loses), appellate court, ruling, then appeal to the Supreme Court and they may not even take it up.
The biggest thing people can do (and I have already done) is reach out to their representative/senator. I've already loudly made it clear to them that I don't support this.
The biggest thing people can do (and I have already done) is reach out to their representative/senator. I've already loudly made it clear to them that I don't support this.