Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
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I dunno who it was who decided that legislation should parent their kids instead of them having to do it themselves, but if I ever find them I’m going to slap the shit out of them.
Probably the same ones that decided that teachers should parent their kids.
Forget about children ever seeing any atheist content again. The religious wackos will definitely make sure that they can brainwash children with stupid religious fiction.
The religious people are also saying that the atheist wackos will brainwash kids with atheist fiction
Nice, that means in the future only browsing with webcam on and ID card possible.
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What if I don’t have kids? I don’t need these rules.
So, you’re so stupid as to not be able to understand that children grow up and run the world. And you’ll still be alive… So, their choices WILL affect you, your family, loved ones, friends, community, nation, etc…
So…I don’t get a life??? I have to live in such a way that other people can have a life but I don’t get one?
Sounds like a dictatorship to me. PASS!
This legislation makes the online environment for children worse, so it’s a moot point; whether you think it’s the government’s place to take a proactive stance on this or not, it’s still bad either way.
Found the kid that didn’t grow up right ^^^^
And you’re so stupid as to not be able to understand that it’s your responsibility to decide what your kids should and should not have access to, not the government’s, especially when the only tools they have to do so just make it harder for the rest of us to get access to those things at best? ‘Won’t some one please think of the children’ has worn pretty goddamned thin: think of your own children, they’re your responsibility, not mine and not Congress’.
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I fail to see how ensuring platforms don’t algorithmically push negative content on children, or how enforcing better default privacy options for children, is remotely a bad thing
See, this is the propaganda part. ‘Protect the kids!’ Of course thats a good sounding thing! Let’s put good sounding thing into law and not worry about any possible downsides.
Any legislation presented as being for “protecting children” needs to be immediately met with skepticism.
It’s almost always a cover for egregious government interference in personal life, which sucks since there really is damaging content out there made on purpose… the only thing you can really do is pay more attention to your own kids
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I trust the reliable and reputable experts of laws of EFF (literally founded to protect digital freedoms) and the ACLU (literally founded to protect the liberties that America tries to stop) then some random person thinking more laws is better.
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Because that’s not what this is. It’s just like the porn site laws
How does a site comply? Maybe they use AI to look at your face, maybe they have you send in your license. The law isn’t clear what’s enough to prove it.
How long until third parties step up? Nice convenient orgs that can sell the collected data that can guarantee compliance, because they sell the data to the government directly. Or even first parties… Facebook and Google are happy to sell this kind of info on their users
This isn’t about protecting kids, it’s about identifying users. What they say this is for is good, what the laws actually do is far removed from that
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That’s what they say it does. What it really does is make sites responsible for “harmful content” shown to minors
It’s all completely vague. You say it just affects the kids mode accounts… The bill doesn’t say anything about that. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how to properly comply, just like the porn id laws.
You can’t assume the government is going to use this for what they say they will. You have to look at what this would let them do as written
Ultimately, this gives the government censorship powers over what is allowed in the “open” Internet, and to IDs users in the “adult” Internet
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It’ll be a bit late then.
I know how compliance works, and this is setting off all my alarm bells, and the EFF and privacy community agrees… This has truly horrifying implications
If you’re going to let human rights be further erroded because it came in a pretty explanation, not much I can do. But when the next patriot act comes back to bite us, remember one thing… When they say it’s about the children, it never is
Your second paragraph is spot on, but you’ll never get those people to accept the damage they caused. Bringing it up just stirs up shit. Sucks.
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Just know that plenty of ppl agree with you. We are just tired of constantly talking about it. If you find a good instance with free thinking, free speech loving, idea sharing people please let me know haha
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Cool I joined. I haven’t used mastodon because I use X, which is fine for me and uses heavy in my industry. Will try out mastodon a bit in the eves instead of Lemmy. Ping me there for a follow, I’m
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