#Stop bad Internet bills

[prismarts333]

KOSA IS BEING PUSHED FOR REAL THIS TIME

‼️URGENT: KOSA has been officially introduced in the House as of today.

We need to spread the word on social media and urge people to send emails to Congress through stopkosa.com.

• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.

• We will be having a calling day on TUESDAY (16 th April) to make clear to Congress that there is still a ton of opposition to these bills. https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-rodgers-and-ranking-member-pallone-announce-legislative-hearing-on-data-privacy-proposals-1

• House Energy and Commerce is holding the hearing so they are the best offices to call this week ‼️ https://energycommerce.house.gov/representatives

• You can use http://badinternetbills.com/ to contact your congresspeople !

• And https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative to find all of the phone numbers of your House Representative, and faxzero.com to send up to 5 free faxes a day

While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.

SPREAD THE WORD !!

[ossydrawsthingz335]

i doubt kosa will pass. im 100 percent sure it wont pass. we still have time.

...that being said. PLEASE spread awareness about it. even if u cant sign a petition or anything like that, please spread awareness about it.

theres still a chance it CAN pass. and i dont want that to happen.

i have so many ppl that i talk to through the internet. i dont want to lose that.

PLEASE research. PLEASE spread. PLEASE sign and email your represenetives. we still have time.

[thelunarsystemwrites]

ENDING KOSA!

The only reason it didn't pass the first two times is because we spoke out about it!

DON'T PANIC, TAKE ACTION.

LET'S GET KOSA TRENDING TO GET IT ENDING!

[kimslovebin]

hi again, im gonna link the KOSA masterpost and try and get the kosa tag to go on trending, we need more people to talk about how dangerous KOSA is and can affect all of us. If we can get the tiktok ban tag to trend, so we can with the stop kosa tag.

EDIT: IT HAS NOT BEEN PASSED YET. READ THIS TWEET.

if this bill passes (which I'm guaranteed it won't since it violates the first amendment and it has been shut down before.) it can affect queer people, palestinians, and more. you would need your ID to use socials, your parents can see what your doing online, you will NOT have any privacy if this bill ends up passing. (Which again it won't, we need to keep speaking up about it.)

also if you have an issue with me talking about this so much then just block me and move on, this is serious and should be more well known.

SPEAK UP ABOUT KOSA AND STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP.

small edit: if this post has any misinfo then please let me know, a lot of misinformation has been going around and I don't want to spread something that is false !!

[spiritmander13]

CAN I GET A FUCK KOSA IN THE CHAT

[cheshire-j]

KOSA UPDATE

It passed the Commerce Committee markup with a unaminous vote. But this shit is far from over.

Keep calling your senators and representatives, email them, and POST about the KOSA bill and its dangers!

KOSA is dangerous as it now threatens end to end encryption, which means EVERYTHING we have internet is in threat of being compromised. We NEED to do something about it and even if you have anxiety, you can do something about. I did, and I felt like I was going to die as I was doing it, but I did it!

If you're not comfortable with calling, email them, sign petitions, post about it on social media. Blow KOSA up, it worked last time and that's why it didn't pass. So let's do it again!

We need action, our privacy and our safety is at stake! This goes beyond violating our 1st and 4th amendments!

STOP KOSA

STOP EARN IT ACT

STOP RESTRICT ACT

These bills are a threat to kids AND adults and they need to be stopped! Keep calling, keep emailing, keep being a pain in their ass!

Edit: No further moves are going to be made on KOSA until after August as Congress is on recess, but it WILL come back in September. So we need to keep pushing, we need to be loud! Keep calling and email your representatives and senators!

[shellefish-art]

Please listen up, this is very important.

They just attached KOSA to the FAA Bill.

It's going to pass if none of y'all don't do anything. Do not give up.

“oh, it's on a must pass bill.. there's no point.”

Yes there is. If you give up now it'll pass and you're going to feel like shit because you knew you had a chance to fight back.

Don't lose hope. Call/Email. Your. Reps.

Here's a linktree to all of the stuff you need to use to raise your voices. Don't be a whimp.

[anobjectshowguy]

I hope people in the OSC (and other fandoms in general) who are ok with or neutral about Kosa realize that not only will we lose a bunch of platforms that allow us to interact with each other (Tumblr, discord, Ao3, Wattpad, Twitter, YouTube, etc) but will also get rid of at least 80-95% of our fandom.

The OSC consists mostly of people between 13-17 who (if Kosa goes through the Senate and Houses of Representatives and gets passed as a law) will most likely no longer have access to YouTube and other social platforms which actively kills almost all the people who read and watch Object Shows!

By visiting and sharing animated shows like II or BFDI those creators make money which gives them the means to keep making their shows and paying their animators, voice actors, writers and so much more. This bill will actively get rid of most of the people who watch these shows which will cause a large loss in support and revenue for these creators and will most likely mean the end for any smaller object show.

Object show comics rely on people sharing them around in fandom spaces since they’re not animated and put on YouTube like animated object shows are. By losing these spaces and the people who support their content these creators will no longer be able to reach a large audience and get the support they need to continue their comics. This means that we will lose a lot of the comics that the OSC has!

Most of the content you see in the OSC is made by minors, which this bill will actively destroy and thus kill this fandom and many others!

So I am begging of you OSC and other communities, Please please please sign petitions, tell your senators and representatives that you don’t want this bill to pass, and tell anyone that you can reach about how this Bill is a violation of privacy and minors' rights! Re-blog anything you see with helpful information about what Kosa is and keep talking about it! We need to tell people about it so that this doesn’t go through the Senate. Remember, the final day is February 26, we don’t have that long!!!

Here’s some helpful resources:

 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Message to all canadian users!

Final vote for BillS210 which is canadas age verification bill similar to kosa, will be occuring this friday. Please call your reps and tell them no

[zestyxwesley]

⚠️🚨THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP🚨⚠️

⚠️🚨SPREAD THIS AROUND PLEASE🚨⚠️

my state has passed an age verification law that will take effect october 1st 2024

social medias and websites have become fed up and are threatening to geoblock any state with age verification laws

the bill id is hb164

this is in alabama

i need help in the fight to get this bill sued in court by the eff netchoice fightforthefuture or other orgs like them

i do not have much time left

this bill will cut me off from most likely everything

this bill is going to kill. me.

please im begging anyone who sees this to email as many orgs as you can to help it get sued delayed and possibly vetoed entirely

me others and the entire state of alabama will suffer because of this bill

please

help me

eff: info@eff.org

netchoice: info@netchoice.org

fight for the future: team@fightforthefuture.org

[hyacinthmewn]

Please do whatever you can to stop KOSA. The internet is supposed to be a safe place for all. And KOSA violating the 1st Amendment and is trying to BLOCK that freedom.

I hope and pray that this awful bill doesn’t pass. For me at least, the internet is a safe place for me. It’s one of the only places I can be myself and be supported by communities and friends I’ve made, and KOSA will tear that apart.

Please, do whatever you can to stop KOSA. Talk to reps, sign petitions, spread awareness. PLEASE.

KOSA will block awareness for world genocides and wars, support for the LGBTQ+ community, and more. It’s not just children they’re trying to “protect” (“protect” in this sense being; “CENSOR AND CODDLE TO MAKE SURE NO ONE IS AWARE OF **REAL** ISSUES IN THE WORLD AND ONLINE.”) .

So please, reach out and do whatever you can.

thank you

[prismarts333]

MASSIVE UPDATE

apparently KOSA isn’t going to be voted on tomorrow

I sincerely apologize for the misinformation. As that level of misinformation won’t help us rid the USA of KOSA

BUT

STILL CALL YOUR REPS TO SAY NO TO KOSA REGARDLESS OF WHEN ITS VOTED ON

THIS BILL IS STILL DANGEROUS AND NEEDS ALL THE PUSHBACK IN THE WORLD!

[ossydrawsthingz335]

this will be like the last kosa post ill make but

i keep seeing ppl quit on here and ppl saying "if it passes ill miss all of u" DONT HAVE THAT MINDSET!!!!

i get it seems pretty dreary, but we still have time!

keep sharing, keep reblogging posts! dont have a mentality like that!

[thelunarsystemwrites]

WE. WILL. WIN.

KOSA Is gonna get defeated if we try hard enough, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHOSE SPOKE OUT ABOUT IT SO FAR!!

We keep pushing, keep hoping, keep fighting!

[kimslovebin]

PLEASE SPEAK UP ABOUT THE KOSA BILL.

[akalikestodraw]

Guys I'm genuinely fucking scared rn if kosa passes I'll lose everything I'll lose my moots ,friends,found family and my qpps which i have no other way to contact the internet is the only thing that kept me sane over the holidays it's the only reason I've learned so much about myself and other ppl like me,it's given me a major sense of belonging and i CAN'T have it taken away from me

All I beg is that we...

STOP KOSA!!!