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Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 07:13:51 JST Annika Backstrom

I finally emailed my reps about KOSA using the EFF form. It's pretty straightforward and you can customise the message if you want. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids
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  Tell the Senate: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help Kids
  
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  The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship.
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  Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 07:22:31 JST Annika Backstrom
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  @derickr "for the children" is always a backdoor to censorship (particularly queer folks) and surveillance, it never fails
  
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  Derick Rethans (derickr@phpc.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 07:22:33 JST Derick Rethans
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  @annika That bill sounds like the same BS as the Online "Safety" Act that just got passed in the UK last month. As your link says, it's not going to do the things it sets out to do.
  
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