Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act).

If you’re in the US, https://www.stopkosa.com/ makes it easy to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose KOSA.

"A new bill called the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, is sailing towards passage in the Senate with bipartisa>n support. Among other things, this bill would give the attorney general of every state, including red states, the right to sue Internet platforms if they allow any content that is deemed harmful to minors. This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don’t even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people.

The right wing Heritage Foundation has already stated publicly that the GOP will use this provision to remove any discussions of trans or queer lives from the Internet. They’re salivating over the prospect.

And yep, I did say this bill has bipartisan support. Many Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. And President Joe Biden has urged lawmakers to pass this bill in the strongest possible terms."

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    So the internet is going to become just like Lemmy and Reddit.

    Or have you never been banned/censored/deleted for bullshit reasons?

    • Queen HawlSera
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      01 year ago

      I like Lemmy more than Reddit because the former doesn’t ban me because I posted on a Sunday that doesn’t start in the middle of the week.

    • @nuxetcrux
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      01 year ago

      I have a feeling you get banned from all sorts of shit

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        You just went through my history, downvoted the most recent 10, and left a mean reply to each.

        Hmmm.

        Lemme guess. Banned from Reddit? Ya, me too.