The US’s latest attempt to chill speech online, KOSA-a bill to effectively force everyone to identify themselves to online platforms-is picking up steam and looking like it will pass the Senate.
I’m really tired of politicians who barely understand the internet trying to write sweeping legislation to regulate it.
Figure out which politicians are behind this.
And throw them out,
since they are trying to take away your rights (to privacy).They are looking to apply mass surveillance upon you guys wrapped into a “For the kids safety” package as usual…
— The Simpsons, 1997
This sums it up in one simple picture, in Canada add the, this will hurt somebody’s feelings paper… Thought police…
Are they insane? There had been a case study done by blizzard showing that its bad, very very bad.
We should leave the parenting to parents.
The parents will ask for the govt to do something stupid like this.
They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.
The Handmaid’s Tale is upon us. It’s available free to listen online.
EFF articles about this bill:
https://www.eff.org/search/site/kosa?sort=created&order=desc
…and their call to action:
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids
Let me guess, it’s something to do with ending encryption and privacy … for the children?
I don’t need to read it to know that it’ll be bad.
I don’t like the concept of basic internet usage becoming a “know your customer” situation. If they advance this crap, they are just setting up future framework for a social credit score system. It should be very telling that your privacy is an expendable commodity to both major parties.
We already have a social credit score, we started it in the 80s. Its called credit
That’s true, although it seems like it’s not quite as transparent to institutional users and politicised as that implies.
I didn’t see anything in the article about “effectively forcing everyone to identify themselves to online platforms,” care to elaborate?
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Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), also announced new changes to the text of the legislation, which seem aimed at addressing concerns that the bill would allow politicians and law enforcement to censor content online.
Vance (R-OH), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Laphonza Butler (D-CA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Angus King (I-ME), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND).
The office pointed to a letter dated Thursday from groups including GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign, and The Trevor Project stating they would not oppose the new version of the bill if it moves forward.
“The considerable changes that you have proposed to KOSA in the draft released on February 15th, 2024, significantly mitigate the risk of it being misused to suppress LGBTQ+ resources or stifle young people’s access to online communities,” the groups wrote.
The latest version of the text includes new language to make clear that video games don’t need to abruptly interrupt natural gameplay in order to implement the required safeguards, among other assurances for the industry.
Fight for the Future was “glad to see the attorney general enforcement narrowed” and agrees the change “will somewhat reduce the immediate likelihood of KOSA being weaponized by politically motivated AGs to target content that they don’t like.”
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Same reason they want to ban TikTok, it’s the only platform they can’t police.
