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You might have seen that a bill package including the notorious Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed out of the House in a rushed vote last week.1 This bill and many of its counterparts would lock large swaths of the Internet behind invasive online ID checks and threaten our ability to speak out online.2 This is far from the end of the road. And calls and messages from people like you have made a huge impact. We’ve been fighting these bills for years, and I can tell you with certainty that the tide is turning. Legislators are shifting, fearmongering “kids safety” arguments are losing their grip, and we’re building a strong, diverse movement of people refusing censorship. KOSA is not yet law, and with the House and Senate disagreeing on fundamental provisions, we have a critical opportunity to build momentum against this legislation and other nonsensical Bad Internet Bills that threaten to kill the Internet as we know it. Now’s the time to dig in. Call and tell your lawmakers how you feel about the KIDS Act passing. Then, check out our brand new Bad Internet Bills tracker, where you can take targeted action against all the most dangerous bills threatening encryption, free expression, and community online.

KEEP UP THE FIGHT

If you’re not sure how your rep voted last week, you can check here.3 Together, Matt at Fight for the Future

P.S. If you believe in our anti-censorship work and can spare the cost of a coffee per month toward the fight, we’d so appreciate it.

Footnotes:

NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/kids-internet-and-digital-safety-act-passes-house-free-speech-concerns-rcna352341

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

From now until the Senate vote, This period of time is our last chance to stop KOSA.

Upset at Discord and Youtube's age verification policies? If KOSA passes, your alternatives to these sites will be affected too. You would not be able to avoid it, not unless you decide to leave social media entirely, which many people cannot do. You would have to choose between privacy and access to your accounts. All is NOT lost, but our hope relies on calls, petitions, emails. I cannot stress enough how important these next few months are. Every call made in the next few months is for the future of the online world. If you have struggled to find time to make a script, or don't know what to say, use 5 Calls. They give you a script to use while calling. People have also provided other scripts. @daytimemin for example has a document with scripts.

Find your senator here: U.S. Senate: Senators

My dreams of becoming a writer and reaching fame through the internet could go to shit if the KOSA law passes. Sure, I am not from the USA nor the UK, but it will expand to my country (Bolivia) eventually

Also, there are people with dreams like mine, people whose lives and jobs rely on the internet, and they could go to shit too because the goverment wanted to pretend to be a babysitter

Not just that, our privacy is at risk. Not mine, not yours, OURS. This has been said and repeated multiple times, but they're not trying to protect the children. They're trying to spy on every single one of us. You could always quit using the internet and wait until the KOSA law is removed, but some people can't live without the internet, and you KNOW what this can lead to

I would trust a conspiracy theorist who has never taken a vaccine more than the people ruling over the UK right now. But there's still time

I wish I had a link to stuff that can lead you to stop the KOSA law from happening, but there will be other posts that can help with that

We can still fight for our freedom. We can still stop KOSA

WE NEED TO BE LOUDER

WE CAN'T SUBMIT

WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO RECREATE 1984

Bluesky just push the age verification laws onto texans like myself and many others, and it’s harming our access to speech freely on these apps. What type of freedom is there if we have to give our privacy and security to these companies, to people that will use it against us one day and still limit what we get to say.

So please continue to call or email your congress, our freedom of speech on the internet depends on it!

Here’s the links to help make things easier to you:

This is a worse version of KOSA.

DO NOT TRUST DEMOCRATS ON THIS ONE!!!

If you can’t safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Senators:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

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