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   Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 00:05:11 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

   Hey, Americans, check this list and if any of these legislators are yours, well you need to come get them.

   This is the bipartisan list of co-sponsors of the nightmarish anti -1A Big Brother KOSA bill, that the GOP has already announced they intend to use to suppress information about LGBTQ+ topics.

   Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
   Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
   Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
   Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
   Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
   Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
   Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
   Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
   Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
   Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
   Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
   Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
   Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
   Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
   Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
   Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
   Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
   Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
   Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
   Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
   Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
   Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:22:53 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     Of course you don't need to see your own legiscritters on that list to be concerned. After all any damn fool in Congress might vote for this putrescent thing. So maybe now would be an excellent time - it's scheduled to be discussed in committee, 10:00 a.m. (EDT) the day after tomorrow (Thursday, July 27th) - to make the depths of your feelings about this known to your Congressmembers.

     If you're unclear on how to reach them or would like a little assistance, I understand this website - https://www.stopkosa.com/ - would be happy to hook you up.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:22:54 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS]
     Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
     Sen. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK]
     Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
     Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
     Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
     Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
     Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
     Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
     Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
     Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
     Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
     Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
     Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
     Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
     Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
     Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]

     If you see any names you recognize as someone maybe you voted for or otherwise represents you, I recommend you ring them up and give them hell. Very, very diplomatically and politely, of course, but firmly and unambiguously. Be sure to let them know that you are constituent of theirs - that's an important word, "constituent" - and you cannot fathom why they would fall for such an obviously treacherous attempt to trick them into government overreach and tyranny.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:22:58 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     Now if this is the first you're hearing of this, KOSA is a "think of the children" bill. It stands for "Kids Online Safety Act", but it's really more of a "Klansmen Online Supremacy Act". It does two terrible things.

     The first is it makes platforms responsible for censoring basically anything the government orders them to. That's pretty bad. Like that's People's Republic of China bad.

     The second is worse.

     It requires platforms to verify the age of users. Long story short, while the proposed law doesn't specify how they are to do that, there literally is no way of doing that that does not require all internet users to show ID, and give up their legal names and residences. This is the death of anonymous and pseudonymous use of the internet.

     The Nazis of course are very down with this. They are SUPER in favor of the state compiling lists of their critics' names and addresses - and even better, outsourcing the job to industry as an unfunded mandate, even.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:23:25 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     I really can't overstate exactly how bad it would be for the American internet to start requiring all users of all social media platforms to present ID. Lots of people have come up with lots of special, specific cases of why this would be bad, but few of them have seen exactly how broadly this will be catastrophic. I've yet to see anyone mention how this will exclude from the internet people who do not have ID to present - the same problem as in voter suppression - and that in some ways is one of the least of the problems.

     Has it ever occurred to you to wonder HOW the United States government managed to find all of the Japanese people in California to round them up and put them in concentration camps? They used the census records. Having access to that database, it was pretty easy to figure out; after all, Japanese Americans tend to have Japanese last names, obvious on casual inspection of a list of citizens.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:23:48 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     The neat thing, from a Big Brother's perspective, of indexing internet commenters to their real world identities and residences, is that you could select not for people of just an ethnicity, but of an espoused opinion. You could round up everyone who, say, spoke positively of unions or of helping people access abortion.

     I cannot begin to tell you how dramatically this will intersect with a little bit of what's known as social network analysis (SNA). SNA is a bunch of things, but one of them is a computational method for figuring out which person is actually a secret ringleader or organizer of collective action, without reading what they actually write or listening into their actual conversations, just by analyzing who talks to whom.

     SNA is a method for figuring out which employee is organizing the other employees. SNA is a method for figuring out which activist is coordinating the efforts of multiple activist groups.

     Without wiretaps. Without subpoenas.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:24:13 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     You may not realize it yet - many of you have no idea - but you're going to want anonymity and pseudonymity where we're going, very, VERY badly. You may still think that anonymity on the internet is the problem, not the solution. If so, you are very, very wrong. If you've forgotten how little the fascists need anonymity, it's been too long since you visited Facebook, and you might want to drop by to refresh your memory.

     The idea that anonymity is the threat is predicated on the fond fancy that only bad guys need it and you are a good guy.

     But from the GOP's perspective you are NOT one of the good guys. You are criminal. Everything you value and treasure is being criminalized: your access to health care, your authenticity, your autonomy, your marriages, your freedom to bring up your children the way you believe, your right to protest and dissent, even your vote. *You* are being criminalized; you are being made a criminal.

     And you will be treated accordingly.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:24:37 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     You, personally, should be afraid of this law. This law should terrify you. This law is a gun to YOUR head - not someone else's head, someone less fortunate than you, someone less privileged than you: YOU. You, personally, are threatened by this law.

     I suggest you react accordingly.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:24:45 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     PS, the other gnarly wrinkle of asking everyone to submit ID to use the internet, is that it both makes it way easier to steal people's IDs - after all, the parties that will be legally responsible for proving that they checked your ID will want to keep a copy to prove that they got it, right? So now platforms will have databases full of copies of people's legal IDs - *and* it creates a whole new motivation for wanting to have access to someone else's stolen ID!

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     Meow :verified: (housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:24:53 JST Meow :verified:

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     @siderea #Fascism often comes in under the guise of protection and security. Everyone would do well to remember that.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:29:19 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     @crow @siderea

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     Crow (crow@cville.online)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 07:29:24 JST Crow

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     @siderea effing mark Warner, “my”senator but really the senator from big telecom.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 09:04:28 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     @qotca Honestly, I think it's a mistake to assume there are ever times when we *don't* have to hold our legiscritters' hands. They require a lot of guidance. Really, toddlers and congressmembers need to never be left unsupervised very long.

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     qotca (qotca@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 09:04:30 JST qotca

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     C'mon, Gary.

     Jesus, we have to hold this one's hand sometimes. #Michigan

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