-The House seems to be going through with their version of KOSA -Explicitly forbids the following acts: A: Censorship of 1st amendment protected speech B: Weaken/Restrict COPPA C: Prevent moderation of spam, criminal activity, and security risks. D: Weaken/Alter Section 230 E: Breaking of encryption

Just a reminder that @anthropic.com the “ethical” AI company is donating $20 million to Public First Action, who are backing Marsha Blackburn and KOSA, a bill that’s going to censor the web and make it worse for everyone.. www.anthropic.com/news/donate-... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

A collection of bills are heading to the House for markup this thursday Demand your representatives -oppose KOSA -oppose the App Store Accountability Act -oppose The SCREEN Act -oppose section 230 reform/sunsetting -oppose/repeal online age verification and ID laws punchbowl.news/article/tech...

#SaveSpeech #BillS209 #StopS209 Bill S-209, the Canadian equivalent to KOSA, is scheduled for a committee vote next week on March 11, before returning to the Senate for a final vote that will move it to the House.

#savespeech #stopS209 Canadian bill S209 has a vote next week in the committee for March 11. Canadians, call your reps NOW

UPDATE KOSA has been combined with the SCREEN Act to form the new KIDS Act We have less than 48 hours before this new bill goes to markup d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/H_R_7757_Kid... Please, contact your reps and say NO to the KIDS Act

#savespeech #stopKOSA News on the House E & C package. Half the bills, but still bills to worry about: The KIDS act combines house KOSA & SCREEN into one bill. There's also COPPA 2.0, ASAA, and Sammy's Law. CALL YOUR REPS www.congress.gov/members/find...

Heads up, they're pushing to mark up those terrible age verification bills in the US House of Representatives, if you're scared about censorship, now's the time to push back. Tumblr post with more info/link to members of the committee doing markup & callscript: titleknown.tumblr.com/post/8099259...

Under a bill like KOSA, platforms would have to use AI to filter out content they think might get them in trouble with the Trump administration. Human rights groups have raised a lot of concern specifically about LGBTQ and abortion content, but anti-war content could absolutely be targeted too.

Let's take KOSA, for example. The Kids Online Safety Act would require platforms to algorithmically suppress content that might cause young people to experience "anxiety" or "depression." Videos and news about my government bombing a school in Iran makes me depressed and anxious... how about kids?

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home. That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous. Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed. www.badinternetbills.com

OREGON: Suzanne is on this list and she's a mess. She's a hypocrite who says she stands for "digital privacy" but has been going hard for KOSA. I want you to make her phone blow up with how pissed you are about this bill and how pissed you are at her response to bills like KOSA. CALL. 202-225-0855

KEEP ANDROID OPEN, FUCK ID VERIFICATION, FUCK KOSA, FUCK ICE, FREE PALESTINE, AND FUCK THE ISRAELI STATE

I just wanna draw, and make money from drawing, and not have to worry about mass censorship and the destruction of the internet as we know it. #StopKOSA #StopSAVEACT #SaveSec230

“The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all”| Taylor Lorenz | …Age Verification is Digital ID via the back door https://alecmuffett.com/article/147647 #AgeVerification

“Age-checking-related data collection poses the very threats that COPPA is designed to address, and we have already seen age estimation systems having issues with data breaches and leaks,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @TheVerge.com. www.theverge.com/policy/8855...

CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them: — NO to KOSA — NO to Section 230 reform — NO to the SCREEN Act — NO to the App Store Accountability Act —NO age verification laws —NO to digital ID systems

Chump Just Can't Stop His Urge To STEAL Money From US.......

I'll post it every day if I have to Stop KOSA Cancel Nitro Look for Discord alternatives Protect Section 230 Our free and open internet's counting on you all to protect it from being a safe haven for bigots and AI age verification laws.

All of the bad internet bills. One website. badinternetbills.com

People may wonder - why is there so much focus on moving away from Big Tech. The reality is that so few people own so much of our lives. It is time we change that.

And that's why we say NO to #AgeVerification 👉 Check the status in your country & whether you need to contact your lawmakers: tuta.com/blog/age-ver...

Chat Control 1.0 lets Big Tech scan ALL your messages. 👀  And the EU wants this to continue. Decision is this WEDNESDAY. ⚡  Call your MEPs now! ⚡  ➡️ fightchatcontrol.eu

Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Pornhub is effectively banned in half of America, but the State Department wants to make sure you can see AI revenge porn posted on X

Mullvad was banned on British TV & then this underground ad got banned by the government body Transport For London. “The argument was clear: you cannot encourage people to engage with a banned TV commercial.” there’s another reason why Mullvad is my VPN

X going wild over a legislator in Minnesota who spoke up about how AV laws are being used to censor LGBTQ+ content. The online right quickly turned it into anti-trans, pro-censorship, eliminationist propaganda. This is why we fight.

Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID. It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info

🚨🔞 The number of countries planning age checks for social media keeps increasing. Will your country be next? 😡Age verification and ID checks destroy everyone's #privacy. 😡 Learn what countries plan #AgeVerification 💪 👉https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

so it turns out that the identity verification provder persona, with its well documented links to peter thiel from the epstein files and palintir, is keeping all data of targets and linking them to intelligence databases and watch lists, exactly like you suspected vmfunc.re/blog/persona

#AgeVerification #DataLeak 1 billion data leaked. 1.000.000.000 Holy. Fucking. Schmokes. www.tomsguide.com/computing/on...

Also, do not stop calling your lawmakers to protect #Section230. Call them everyday, because many LGBTQ+ youths need the internet to survive this cruel world that views their existence as undesirable. Repealing it is part of Project 2025. U.S. House/Senate number: (202) 224-3121

Statt Social Media-Mindestalter & Ausweispflicht: Suchtmechanismen verbieten, eigene Algorithmen wählen, Medienkompetenz stärken! Das fordern auch junge Menschen selbst. Im Podcast mit Sibylle Berg & #pirat Frank Hermann diskutieren wir darüber: 🎧 https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=x2L1SkiJY6k

I will say, the best way to tell normies why KOSA/KOSPA/Age Verification is bad is the following sentence: "ICE wants your kids' faces, and KOSA will hand it to them on a silver platter." Follow up with the fact that ICE isn't gonna stop at the kids either if you really want to chill their bones

who could have seen this coming? tl;dr: KOSA demands everybody identify themselves mandatorially. Its also anti-LGBT and very fashy. I am fairly sure the point of this is so AI money idiots can train their models on "human data" verified by mandatory ID.

These groups are exploiting the real pain & anger people rightfully feel towards Big Tech while positioning Section 230 as the problem when their true aim is to restrict resources/online free speech of groups they don’t like. Please sign + share: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/jose...

Pay close attention to some of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s partners frothing at the mouth to sunset Section 230. NCOSE is a raging homophobic organization hell bent on erasing LGTBQ life from media...not to mention the Heritage Foundation?

Note for people in Quebec who oppose bill S-209 (Canada's very own age verification bill) and want to let your reps know

'I do not trust them' - top streamers left concerned by Discord age checks www.bbc.com/news/article...

We are finally starting to get more mainstream articles about the dangers and privacy concerns of age verification. Adults shouldn't have to give up their privacy and sensative information to access services. There are other and better ways to keep kids safe online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

if you live in Wicsonson, theyre trying to push through an insanely restrictive Age Verification law that would make it illegal for an ADULT to use a VPN to access "material harmful to minors" contact your legislators NOW

The Wisconsin Senate is voting on S.B. 130/A.B. 105, a problematic age verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites. If you live in Wisconsin, now is the time for you to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote down this bill. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

Wisconsin is about to ban VPN use for "material harmful to minors," part of a larger bill age-verification bill. The final vote is tomorrow. If you're based in WI, or have fans or friends who are, have them contact their legislator NOW. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php

BIBI and FRIENDS. #Anonymous [No AI was used.]