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KOSA is dead! (US) (www.fightforthefuture.org)

submitted 2 months ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183

Fight for the Future writes:

"The controversial and unconstitutional Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is officially dead in the House of Representatives. Reporting indicates that there was significant opposition to the bill within the Republican caucus, and it faced vocal opposition from prominent progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep Maxwell Frost (D-FL)."

Evan Greer:

"KOSA was a poorly written bill that would have made kids less safe. I am so proud of the LGBTQ youth and frontlines advocates who have led the opposition to this dangerous and misguided legislation. It’s good that this unconstitutional censorship bill is dead for now, but I am not breathing a sigh of relief. It’s infuriating that Congress wasted so much time and energy on a deeply flawed and controversial bill while failing to advance real measures to address the harms of Big Tech like privacy, antitrust and algorithmic justice legislation. "

Thanks to everybody who took action ove the last year to stop this bill!

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 123 points 2 months ago

Article doesn't say why republicans opposed it, but I guess this is one of those "broken clock" moments where they were accidentally right but for the wrong reasons.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago

They probably opposed the idea of safe kids, given the rest of the platform. That, or there was lobbying money.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 13 points 2 months ago

Considering the tech industry would need to use more money to enforce the law, it would be cheaper to just buy out politicians.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Their official line is based in fears of surveillance and government overreach. My state senator Mike Lee was one of them, must have been a cold day in Hell or something.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Please don’t perpetuate “think of the children” nonsense.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I’m not, it’s the name. The joke was that they saw the concept of safe kids in the Kids Online Safety Act and never read further.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

And you making fun of that is just perpetuating the problem of bullshit law names like “protect the children” or “patriot act” or “freedom blah blah safety blah blah.”

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I don’t think it does in this context. Not a single person reading this thinks that this was a good bill, whereas in a Facebook comment section, that might be different.

[-] aniki@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Do you know what kosa stands for?

[-] SnotFlickerman 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and go with "Can't give Democrats anything that looks like a conservative win" for $500 Alex.

[-] LennethAegis@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

That and good old reactive contrarianism. Dems say yes, we say no.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

[-] Banichan@dormi.zone 4 points 2 months ago

You can't go looking for logic in hate

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The reason is obvious, the Democrats wanted it to pass.

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