#and if kosa passes..

[blue-jester]

I feel sick

[cheezitthefuzz]

KOSA is having trouble passing. Fucking good.

[skeletal-sam]

YOU GUYS!!!!

The reason why KOSA was declined LAST TIME was because people called continuously to senators and told them NOT TO ACCEPT THE BILL!!!! KEEP ON CALLING!!! KEEP ON SIGNING PETITIONS AGAINST KOSA!!! THESE INTERNET BILLS ARE NOT AT ALL GOOD!!!!! The government should NOT be keeping you all on parental controls on the INTERNET!!! KEEP ON CALLING!!! THIS IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE WAYS!!!!

[thunder-jolt]

I swear to whatever god exists out there, hiding in the clouds or in the darkness of space outside the Milky Way...

IF THAT FUCKING KOSA BILL PASSES, I'M GOING TO COMMIT ARSON! I'm not going through this again, NOT AGAIN.

I have seen this bill since LAST YEAR and the year BEFORE THAT, and if that bill ever passes, the government will regret it once I get my hands on their FUCKING NECKS!

Normally I'm not this violent but that bill, THAT BILL, OH I'M GOING TO BE SO PISSED.

DO NOT LET THAT BILL PASS! I REPEAT, DO NOT LET THAT BILL PASS! DO NOT LET IT PASS!

DON'T LET THAT FUCKING THING PASS!

[milesworld96]

YALLS OH SHIT, PLEASE GET IN CONTACT WITH SENATORS TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE BILL. THIS IS LIKE BAD, REALLY BAD FOR MANY PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS. WE JUST NEED WON SENATOR TO SPEAK AGAINST IT

HELP CHIP IN AS WELL IF YOU CAN, PLEASE THESE ARE DIRE TIMES RIGHT MOW

[nats-revival]

Not they tryna reenact KOSA… anyway yall, here’s why KOSA is bad!!

If you don’t already know, KOSA, or Kids Online Safety Act is a bill that was proposed to keep children safe on the internet. You might ask ‘why is this bill bad if it’s in favor of supporting the safety of children online’? Well, according to stopkosa.com, it puts pressure on platforms to add even MORE filters on anything they think is inappropriate for children. This is especially harmful for LBGTQIA+ youth because the knowledge about this topic would be censored, as well as knowledge on suicide prevention and LGBTQIA+ support groups. Do you see how this an issue? For those children who are wanting to learn more about these topics they’d be turned away because of this bill. It would also be likely that it’ll allow the shutdown of websites that allow them to learn about race, sexuality and gender.

This bill would also add more internet surveillance for all users across all social media platforms. It would expand the use of age verification and parental monitoring controls. These things in itself are already very invasive, but doesn’t take into consideration the children who live in unsafe environments where they are domestically abused and/or are trying to escape these situations. To add my two cents onto this, I strongly believe that the KOSA bill is an unnecessary violation of our first amendment rights (if you’re American), and doesn’t really make the internet any more safer. It actually makes it more unusable for youth. Hypothetically, if this bill were to be passed, then this would make social media unusable for literally anybody. To censor content from the youth about wanting to learn about their identity is extremely harmful. Blocking them from accessing resources that may prove as helpful in their scenarios is outlandish and unneeded. We try to shelter our youth so much to the point where we try to boil them down to only being with their parents want them to be and also not being able to let them learn and explore about other things that they may want to identify themselves with. This is very harmful.

This is a list of companies who are saying no to KOSA ..

• Access Now

• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

• Black and Pink National

• Center for Democracy & Technology

• COLAGE

• Defending Rights & Dissent

• Don’t Delete Art

• EducateUS: SIECUS In Action

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Equality Arizona

• Equality California

• Equality Michigan

• Equality New Mexico

• Equality Texas

• Fair Wisconsin

• Fairness Campaign

• Fight for the Future

• Free Speech Coalition

• Freedom Network USA

• Indivisible Eastside

• Indivisible Plus Washington

• Internet Society

• Kairos

• Lexington Pride Center

• LGBT Technology Partnership

• Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition

• Media Justice

• National Coalition Against Censorship

• Open Technology Institute

• OutNebraska

• PDX Privacy

• Presente.org

• Reframe Health and Justice

• Restore The Fourth

• SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change

• SWOP Behind Bars 

• TAKE

• TechFreedom

• The 6:52 Project Foundation, Inc.

• The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center

• Transgender Education Network of Texas

• TransOhio

• University of Michigan Dearborn – Muslim Student Association 

• URGE

• WA People’s Privacy

• Woodhull Freedom Foundation

There is something you can do to stop the KOSA bill from being passed! On the website I linked, there is a petition. All you have to do is fill out the information and it’ll send off an email for you. The email reads as follows:

I’m writing to urge you to reject the Kids Online Safety Act, a misguided bill that would put vulnerable young people at risk. KOSA would fail to address the root issues related to kid’s safety online. Instead, it would endanger some of the most vulnerable people in our society while undermining human rights and children’s privacy. The bill would result in widespread internet censorship by pressuring platforms to use incredibly broad “content filters” and giving state Attorneys General the power to decide what content kids should and shouldn’t have access to online. This power could be abused in a number of ways and be politicized to censor information and resources. KOSA would also likely lead to the greater surveillance of children online by requiring platforms to gather data to verify user identity. There is a way to protect kids and all people online from egregious data abuse and harmful content targeting: passing a strong Federal data privacy law that prevents tech companies from collecting so much sensitive data about all of us in the first place, and gives individuals the ability to sue companies that misuse their data. KOSA, although well-meaning, must not move forward. Please protect privacy and stop the spread of censorship online by opposing KOSA.

The website also gives you like a format of what you can say if you chose to call your representatives. If after reading this post, you feel inclined to do something then I would say just go ahead and do it. My first time learning about KOSA was today immediately after seeing the post I felt inclined to send my lawmakers an email. Please try to help when you can and this will only take a few minutes so I think this is something that you can consider. This post is getting a little long now, so I’ll stop here. There are more resources online if you would like to learn more about the cons of this KOSA bill, thank you for reading.

[diabolocracy]

Dropping this here again.

[maydays-medbay]

I want to be so real with you all right now, because I can’t seem to get my head on straight when I desperately need to.

I know this is a silly little fandom blog where I post about my characters and have a laugh with my mutuals, but recently I’ve been so burnt out over this that I’ve lost the want to make anything. I don’t have the mental willpower or energy to make anything.

KOSA scares me. Genuinely. I can’t tell you a time in my life where I’ve ever felt more scared and angry and upset over something so genuinely horrible.

I haven’t been able to sleep since learning of its recent resurgence and now upcoming voting in the Senate. I feel sick every time I stop doing things to distract me because of how much grief this bill brings.

If this bill passes, I genuinely don’t know what I’m going to do. As a queer transgender man, this bill not only makes me afraid of what’s going to happen to everything I’ve built, but it makes me fear over my safety and all of the things I love about the internet.

This bill will ruin all of those things. Censorship on this magnitude is abhorrent and gross, and I’m tired of the government trying to control the things they don’t like under the guise of protecting children. Especially when a bill like this is going to end up fucking over countless minors and adults alike.

If a minor lives in an unsafe home, their resources for getting out of it will be stripped away because of how the bill goes about censoring media. If a queer minor is trying to find LGBTQ+ resources, this bill won’t let them because that information is going to be protected behind safeguards and other censorship methods based on “preserving mental health”. All under the guise of “protecting” them.

Protecting children is important. This? This is not the way to do it. Period.

Putting our information on the internet to verify that we’re adults- personal, identifying information- is incredibly, incredibly dangerous. Information privacy and anonymity have always been very, very important to me. This strips that all away.

I feel safe when I can be more private online. I feel safe being able to talk to people without my private information being submitted to their databases.

This makes my already rampant paranoia worse. This makes me afraid of my personal information ending up on some insecure database that’s ripe for the taking for those with malicious intent.

Fuck this bill, and fuck anyone who supports it. I’m tired of this bill making me feel unsafe, paranoid, vulnerable, and overwhelmingly scared. I just want to live my life normally.

I’m tired of constantly agonizing over the next time when children or LGBTQIA+ people are going to be political scapegoats. I hate living like this.

Stop KOSA. Please. From the bottom of my heart, I want this bill stopped.

Please. If you can, call your reps and lawmakers- tell them that you don’t want this bill to pass. Even if you’re not from the US, you can help. Below I’ve put in a link to Stop KOSA’s website where you can email/call your lawmakers and let them know how much you hate this bill. And if you can’t do that for some reason, or you already have, please spread the word and let other people know about this bill and how to stop it.

And remember, even if KOSA passes in the senate, we can halt it in its tracks when it reaches the house. So please. Don’t stop fighting, and STOP KOSA!

(Also, feel free to reblog and add any other information you can to this post to spread the word about this bill and/or provide more resources to combat it. Every email, Call, and other way to inform lawmakers of your opinion helps. There’s a reason we stopped KOSA the first two times. We can do it again.)

[decolonize-the-everything]

Being a leftist and watching all my trans and leftist mutuals vanish from my notes only to see posts where they've been nuked

What year is this again? Feels like 1984 for some reason.

[ferocioustrout]

”kosa will lower suicide rates” actually. actually if it passes I’m killing myself. what about that

[pandoraarti]

Hey we only got one day left until KOSA possibly passes and with it we'll possibly lose contact with each other from lack of online privacy. So I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who I've met online through the years, especially those I've come to become great friends with. I love you, I'll fucking miss you.

[thedancingclowns]

Sorry, the clown's gonna be political for a moment. But PLEASE read. This is important.

Hey, any fellow (unfortunate) Americans who are sitting on pins and needles over the KOSA vote, you can get updates on it here:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1409

(at least I think so...)

Stay safe, and fuck KOSA.

Do everything you can to get your senators to vote NO.

(I can't provide the fucking resources right now unfortunately, but do whatever you can, please. You can find resources in the KOSA tags, including call scripts, information, etc. PLEASE use them.)

Long story short, if KOSA gets passed, I'm fucked. In fact. We'd all be fucked.

Y'all are fucking great, don't let this bullshit get through. Please.

(I hate being political, but this is important *I am NOT saying other political and humanitarian, etc issues aren't important, I support 🍉🇵🇸 and all others under threat in these bullshit times [but I don't post about it as I don't want to draw the attention, *which I know, sounds like such bullshit. I'm scared already for my safety on a day to day basis, I didn't want to make myself more of a fucking target* but I do donate and try my best to help with the limited shit I can do. Outside of here I do as much as I can to advocate.]* I am only posting about KOSA now because if I don't fucking say this then what the fuck am I doing? KOSA is unconstitutional, it's censorship and will strip all those struggling to find safe spaces and help of their access to already dwindling amounts of sources. It will hide and disable access to places to help people who are in crisis, and will make us as a country even more ignorant than we are already. We CAN'T afford to allow this.)

Tell your senators AND house representatives to vote NO on KOSA. It WILL affect you.

[dib-thing-wannabe]

Hey guys, in case KOSA does end up being passed (which I doubt but it's best to be safe rather than sorry), if you have Discord and are a mutual of mine/interested in being a mutual of mine, just hit me up in Dms to exchange usernames!! Love y'all!

[angeldustthespiderdemon]

https://chng.it/kDQCgKVFc8

KOSA can't pass!!

[jobey-wan-kenobi]

It's so weird to be working on a WIP fic towards a self-appointed debut date - only to simultaneously wonder if I'll still be on social media by that date.

Anyway reminder to US friends to CALL YOUR SENATOR with a brief remark about how you urge them to vote today against KOSA

[starrysea18]

https://chng.it/tVbcRXkp8N

This is the link for the petition to STOP KOSA!!! THIS BILL WILL ENDANGER MANY PEOPLE AND THE ENTIRE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT!!!

PLEASE SIGN!!!