FFTF's Creator Toolkit with information to share: docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/637497e2-8... #stopkosa #badinternetbills.com #ageverification

Reminder this is just a hearing so keep the calls up against these bills with @fightforthefuture.org and @eff.org even @aclu.org who oppose these

Tell your lawmakers to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act- there are better ways to protect kids online without throwing other vulnerable people under the bus. www.stopkosa.com

As always: the best way to protect kids online is to pass strong legislation that protects EVERYONE from Big Tech's surveillance capitalist business model & breaks their monopolies so that people can have social media and tech tools that serve community needs. Nothing in this package looks like that

In seriousness, though, we're analyzing the new text but this package looks like a mess. The new KOSA text is confusing... the removal of the unworkable Duty of Care is positive, but other changes are just ... weird? Other bills in the package would mandate age verification and look disastrous.

Reporters asking me about the new KOSA text, here is my official statement: "Fight for the Future's organizational policy is to oppose any piece of legislation that is unveiled on the eve of a major Federal holiday, regardless of what it says. We feel this is the most principled position."

Either way we needs to stop KOSA and other bills from passing! www.badinternetbills.com

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Badinternetbills.com Stopkosa.com

call your representatives and demand they oppose KOSA, Sammy's law and the App Store Accountability Act. I'm going to try my best to loom through the other bills to see what else needs to be targeted by us, but for now focus on those three! www.congress.gov/members/find...

#SaveSpeech the Energy and Commerce Commission are having a hearing on Dec 2nd to look at a whole swatch of legislation claiming it will "protect children. We have a full list of the bills that will be present, and it includes bills like KOSA, Sammy's Law, App Store Accountability Act and more!

Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.

#savespeech #stopKOSA #DOYOURJOBPARENTS news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go... We knew it was coming, and now we have conformation. If you can, start calling your reps below. House Committee on Energy and Commerce: energycommerce.house.gov House: www.house.gov/representati...

I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this. Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage. Let people find joy where they can, please.

🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.” That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now. Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

🗣️📣 Paralives comes out in one month, here is what to expect from our Early Access release! 📺 youtu.be/1bl3dpyqrt4

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

Me and @janus.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: "If lawmakers really cared about kids, they’d stop trying to take away their health care ... Instead, many top Democrats in Congress are trying to help Trump censor the internet. And by speaking out, it’s the kids who are protecting us from them."

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors. We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

I've contacted my senators today about KOSA! Have you?

KOSA is now in red alert priority. Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA! We need to turn out in numbers against this! ⬇️

Democracy dies in silence. …when people are too afraid or don’t care enough to speak up. Not today. MILLIONS of Americans and allies of freedom and democracy, here and around the world, are taking to the streets. Showing their love of country and defiance of tyranny. It’s a beautiful sight.

Everyone knows that Meta is basically single-handedly behind the "do age verification in the app store" push, right? Government mandated online age verification is dangerous, doesn't work, and poses a massive threat to human rights and free expression no matter where/how it's done. Full stop.

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

#SaveSpeech KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps 5calls.org/issue/kids-o... Please call DAILY

There are actually a bunch of Dems who are thoughtful & smart on tech policy @aoc.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social opposed the TikTok ban, oppose KOSA, support privacy and antitrust @wyden.senate.gov defends encryption, section 230 But party leaders keep listening to the worst members

Call your reps NOW and tell them to oppose KOSA! NOT tomorrow! NOT next week! RIGHT. NOW!

Steve Scalise (202) 225-3015 scalise.house.gov/contact/offi... Mike Johnson (202) 225-2777 mikejohnson.house.gov/contact/ yes it works!! We were able to stop KOSA last year because of the House GOP not supporting it

Are you kidding me right now? This is the last thing we need. KOSA is back no thanks to Senator Blumenthal who is working with the GOP and bringing in Republican Senators to convince the House to support it. Please, CALL GOP House leadership and tell them to keep opposing it!

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet. WTF?

Seriously, KOSA must never come to pass! It's in direct violation of constitutional rights and will only endanger everyone. Call your reps, all of them, and tell them they must oppose KOSA!

KOSA is now in red alert priority. Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA We need to turn out in numbers against this!

Call your fucking senators and tell them not to pass KOSA. Richard Blumenthal needs to fucking retire.

SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably. The UK's age verification law backfired miserably. The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably. So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably

Also, you have the history of 230 entirely wrong. You could ask your colleague @wyden.senate.gov, who helped write the damn bill to set you straight, but why would you do that when you can just pretend it was written for a different reason than it was?

Removing Section 230 doesn't do what you claim it will do. It would do the opposite. Without 230 it would be easier to threaten and sue websites for hosting speech, which gives way more power to those willing to file vexatious censorial lawsuits (sound like anyone you know?)

Hey @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov, I've asked this before and I feel the need to ask again, though you've made it clear you will not answer, but why do you keep wishing to give the Trump administration more power to censor people? www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...

Not surprisingly, @fightforthefuture.org is on the same wavelength as me on how shameful @amyklobuchar.com's position is... www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09...

Democrats embarrassing themselves by calling for online censorship in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder

pretty sure the award for worst Dem response to "the current moment" is Amy Klobuchar saying we need to repeal Section 230 because the man who shot Charlie Kirk used the Internet

anyhow age verification laws are bad and they make kids less safe while gutting online free expression and privacy so maybe you should tell your lawmakers not to fall for this nonsense www.stoponlineidchecks.org

c) the government can't send a legal demand to the liquor store asking to see every license of every person who has walked in the door (because they don't scan and store your ID) d) the liquor store doesn't offer free sex education, domestic violence resources, suicide prevention, etc etc

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

Sharing this resource for those in the UK for UKOSA- a tool to check + report sites that shouldn't be filtered: www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks

@YouTube is using AI to impose online ID checks on users! Stop forcing users to choose between censorship and privacy! www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...

apropos of everything here is a campaign @fightforthefuture.org has been running for months www.stoponlineidchecks.org

It sucks when platforms pre-comply with fascism and implement their own ID check policies. It sucks even more when the government requires them to spy on you. @fightforthefuture.org is running one of the largest national campaigns against "age verification" laws. join us www.stoponlineidchecks.org

This is the right response to the Mississippi law from Bluesky. "Age verification" laws are nothing more than a massive expansion of government surveillance and censorship. They make kids less safe, not more safe. Get a VPN and call your lawmakers. Time to fight. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Then we must stop it, the UK law and the SC ruling has woken everyone up.