Please spread this, I’m scared, I’m 14 and I live US.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1409
https://warrior-cats-ultimate-edition-wcue.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000184896
https://npc-wcue.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000106792
https://www.badinternetbills.com/
https://www.newsreports.com/defending-cyberspace-the-battle-against-kosa/
Notes: I don’t want the US gov fucking tracking me everywhere. My life is stressful enough. I’ve got enough worries. Help. Please protest, spread this and contact the senate to target this bill. Strike this bill down.
oh I remember looking at this bill and being mildly horrified. it’s going to destroy online queer communities by requiring them to collect ID data. I think if this passes, hexbear (which operates from the US if I’m not mistaken) will be exposed to law enforcement issues because doxxing ourselves to the website is a non-starter.
Looks like hexbear is hosted in France and lemmygrad is hosted in Norway
good to hear. might still be issues with serving US citizens, a la the GDPR and EU citizens. no clue if it will be enforced that way.
I don’t quite understand what it means even after looking into it. Doesn’t it prevent certain things from being show to minors?
the bill is intentionally vague. it’s left up to state attorneys general to decide what that means and it requires websites to collect id data to verify age. several conservative politicians have bragged that they’re going to use this bill to go after online queer communities. and the Biden admin and DNC generally support the bill so it’s likely to pass.
Ah, I see. I think age verification isn’t a bad thing if it were being used to ensure kid’s can’t see sexually explicit things and lie about their age but leaving it vague is definitely a bad thing if it will be used to attack LGBT groups.
The “Think of the Children!” excuse has been used by homophobes as an excuse to persecute them as long as there have been homophobes.
Oh, I understand. Of course we should protect children from unsavory content but I certainly don’t trust homophobes to be the ones deciding how that is done
Exactly. Anytime the US gov tries to announce that they are doing something to “protect the children” 9/10 times it’s just an excuse to persecute or punish non cis-white people.