The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) have amended it for 2024, and it remains a censorious and dangerous bill. We are asking everyone to demand that their representatives oppose it—even if they already have. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act
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it takes a lot to get me to willingly pick up the phone, but i just called my senators to urge them to vote no on #KOSA and you should too.
there are some script templates going around if you prefer to have a reference, here's one:
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"The S is for surveillance": fighting KOSA and bad internet bills in the ATmosphere and the fediverses
https://thenexusofprivacy.net/the-s-in-kosa-is-for-surveillance/
The first post in this series was at a fairly high level. Now, let's shift from theory to practice.
Thanks to Anthony Moser for the framing help!
UPDATE: Activism makes a difference: the SCREEN Act unexpectedly fails in committee!
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#Romancelandia @bookstodon #CallToAction #USPolitics #KOSA
(and if you go, "well, I write ~clean~ romance, so it doesn't affect me", please know that fascism never runs out of targets/enemies, and that it *will* affect you sooner rather than later)
https://www.techpolicy.press/house-subcommittee-advances-18-child-online-safety-bills/
"we have a company that is a big player in the age verification space, talking up age and identity verification laws, that appears to have had a long-standing ongoing leak of every ID it scanned.
At this point, anyone still supporting age verification requirements, especially claiming it’s for “child safety,” should have to answer for all the millions of people put needlessly at risk due to data breaches like this."