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Thanks to @yellowmagicalgirl for creating the petition.

kosma (kids off social media act) has somehow passed committee without a vote. no mentions of that happening anywhere. unfortunately, that means that it's closer to passing now, which is obviously, very alarming.

as the last link suggests, the hearing will happen in the senate this thursday. so, we have to call them (senators) now, before they pass this.

apologies if i have gotten some information wrong. however, please note that while this isn't exactly kosa, this is still related, and is getting more attention, as well as more people advocating for this censorship bill. no matter, the goal is the same. start calling them about this, and inform others. thank you.

:"This is a hearing, not a markup, because lo and behold this bill passed out of the Senate committee without discussion and is already on the Senate floor 🙃🙃 And apparently this happened last February. Trust me, I am just as shocked as you. I did not hear any of this happening and would have remembered, but yes. Gotta love our government 🙃🙃"

What this hearing is hoping to do is to kickstart the propaganda machine about these internet censorship bills up again in support of them. Since this bill is on the Senate floor, it is urgent that we call Senate leadership and tell them not to support a bill that will cause mass harm to children.

make your own decisiosn

LInk Comparing Provisions in KOSMA and KOSA – Public Interest Privacy Center

The Kids Off Social Media Act Misses the Mark on Children’s Online Safety | ITIF

my observation

KOSMA uses a “reasonable knowledge” standard—online services must act if there is a high likelihood that a user is below the age of 13.

My conclusion: This seems vague and ill defined and could encourage disastrous age verification systems that when tried in the UK led to hackers stealing a lot of personal information because it was all in one place.My conclusion: this could lead to false positives of people falsely identified by their past usage history as underage having their accounts deleted because they looked up an old cartoon for nostalgia purposes or similar.

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"The American Psychological Association (APA) released social media guidelines, which, among other suggestions, argued that young teens and preteens benefit from using social media with significant guidance from their parents when they are young and then having more autonomy as they get older."

KOSMA’s school-based restrictions have drawn criticism, with opponents arguing that E-Rate funding restrictions could disproportionately harm low-income students who rely on school-provided internet access for homework, after-school activities, and communication. [

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Please spread the word as well! Call not only below, but Your own senators and house members as well!

Senate Leadership: R: (202) 224-2321 , (Senator John Thune) D: (202) 224-6542 (Senator Charles E Schumer)

House Leadership: R: 202-225-4000 (Mike Johnson [is that even worth it?]) R: (202) 225-3015 ( Steve Scalise D: (202) 225-5936 Hakeem Jeffries

Call not only below, but Your own senators and house members as well!

The petition reads:

KOSMA is a data breach waiting to happen. Last July, the UK passed their own online safety act, despite cybersecurity experts warning them that this would lead to identity theft. Only a few months later the messaging platform, Discord would experience a massive data breach. It had collected government ID photos in accordance with UK law. Now, those photos are vulnerable. If you vote in favor of KOSMA, then you are either stupid enough to not learn from past events, or you are malicious with citizens' online safety.

Here it is. I discovered this morning that using the image as a link doesn't work on mobile (at least not when logged out, since I haven't used the tumblr app in years), so for future petitions I'll try to format the post differently.

The petition reads:

KOSMA is a data breach waiting to happen. Last July, the UK passed their own online safety act, despite cybersecurity experts warning them that this would lead to identity theft. Only a few months later the messaging platform, Discord would experience a massive data breach. It had collected government ID photos in accordance with UK law. Now, those photos are vulnerable. If you vote in favor of KOSMA, then you are either stupid enough to not learn from past events, or you are malicious with citizens' online safety.

Minors Against Online “Safety”. I feel like messages against censorship “for the children” will be more effective coming from the children it’s claiming to protect.

Here’s the plan: Find your state’s senators and house representatives. Call them, email them, tell them every little way these bills are detrimental, to BOTH children and adults. Most importantly, do it CONSTANTLY. At least once every few days, IF NOT MORE. AND, tell your friends and classmates to do it too. Regardless of political orientation, I can’t imagine any teen taking kindly to the idea of their internet access being limited or completely revoked.

The bills we’re targeting are: KOSA (requires age verification to access many websites), KOSMA (bans people under 13 from using social media) , the SCREEN act (blocks content seen as harmful to minors for ALL audiences), Block BEARD (supposedly protects against foreign piracy), and the Take It Down act(blocks content seen as sexually obscene to ALL audiences), which has already passed but is ridiculously unconstitutional, so maybe we can get the Supreme Court on that.

Some good points that you may want to bring up (if you can think of any others, put them in comments, please!)

- The SCREEN act could limit a teen’s access to Sex Ed, especially for the lgbtq+ community, who don’t always get taught how to stay safe in schools.

- While this might cut down on kids access to negative content, it could also very easily cut down on access to positive content as well. (e.g. , a child becomes suicidal. While they might no longer have access to material encouraging them to commit, they will likely also lose access to material discouraging them as well)

- A lot of the big companies that would have to enforce these policies are subject to data breaches. What would happen if a predator got access to a list of users containing their ages?

- Block BEARD could lead to many non-profit sites being banned in the U.S. (such as AO3, a fanfiction website that has content tagging and filtering systems put in place, that would likely make it difficult for a child to encounter obscene content, if supervised properly by their guardians.)

- The president has specifically stated that he intends to to use the Take It Down Act to censor those who disagree with him. Not only is this a pretty direct violation of the First Amendment, the government has also put policies like this in place before, to undesirable effects (Alien and Sedition Act).

- Neurodivergent kids. Socializing in person can be quite hard for many ND children, but sites like Discord can be an outlet to help them find connection. KOSMA will ban kids under 13 from social media, which is not only somewhat useless in itself, seeing that most big social media sites either require this already or are specifically for children, but also doesn’t account for the possibility of a child using their parent’s account.

- China. China is infamous in the western world for the unbelievable amount of censorship it puts on its citizens online activity, but not even China requires this kind of age verification.

- A child’s parents should be the one in charge of what they deem too inappropriate for their child, not the government. What if abrahamic religion was considered obscene? How would Christian and Jewish and Muslim parents educate their children on their beliefs?

kosma (kids off social media act) has somehow passed committee without a vote. no mentions of that happening anywhere. unfortunately, that means that it's closer to passing now, which is obviously, very alarming.

as the last link suggests, the hearing will happen in the senate this thursday. so, we have to call them (senators) now, before they pass this.

apologies if i have gotten some information wrong. however, please note that while this isn't exactly kosa, this is still related, and is getting more attention, as well as more people advocating for this censorship bill. no matter, the goal is the same. start calling them about this, and inform others. thank you.

UPDATE ON KOSA:

Unfortunately, all of the privacy-killing legislation passed out of subcommittee. 😡😡 This includes KOSA, the App Store Accountability Act, and several other age verification bills.

I am extremely furious about this. So so bad. What the hell.

The only good news is that KOSA passed on a party line vote, meaning they ARE listening to opposition. Same with COPPA, I believe.

But it is still not enough. These age verification bills are TERRIBLE. This is not a fight we can give up on or afford to lose. We must go 10x harder.

If you're angry about it, CALL UP THOSE MEMBERS. If you're scared, CALL UP THOSE MEMBERS. If you don't know what to do, CALL UP THOSE MEMBERS.

SPREAD THE WORD.

Thank you for everyone who participated in this weeks rounds of calls. I do believe it had an impact, considering that this is the first time KOSA had some opposition of this level. Still, let's go even harder.

As I've mentioned before, December is an all-hands-on-deck month. On December 2nd the House Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee had a hearing to introduce a 19-bill package of Online Safety Bills. NOW, on Thursday, December 11th 2025, they've scheduled a markup for most of (not all) of those bills, including KOSA. We need to repeat what we did just a few days ago and continue to call, fax, and email members of the House Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, House Leadership, and our representatives to oppose this bills.

Push back work. We've done this before and can do it again we just need energy and noise.

This markup is just another part of a long process and we need to be loud about our opposition every step of the way. Again, don't panic, this isn't necessarily a subcommittee vote (I'm not sure if they'd vote on the bills or continue to mark them up after Thursday), but this is another step in the process So, PLEASE CALL!

Subcommittee Calendar:

Subcommittee Members at the bottom:

USE THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTS WHEN CALLING REPS

Hello people, this is the list of subcommittee members along with their political party and numbers from the energy & commerce website you can call them easily instead of clicking on the site and having to go through with them one by one:

Gus Bilirakis (R) - 202-225-5755

Russ Fulcher (R) - 202-225-6611

Jan Schakowsky (D) - 202-225-2111

Neal Dunn (R) - 202-225-5235

Kat Cammack (R) - 202-225-5744

Jay Obernolte (R) - 202-225-5861

John James (R) - 202-225-4961

Cliff Bentz (R) - 202-225-6730

Erin Houchin (R) - 202-225-5315

Russell Fry (R) - 202-225-9895

Laurel Lee (R) - 202-225-5626

Tom Kean (R) - 202-225-5361

Gabe Evans (R) - 202-225-5625

Craig Goldman (R) - 202-225-5071

Brett Guthrie (R) - 202-225-3501

Kathy Castor (D) - 202-225-3376

Darren Soto (D) - 202-225-9889

Lori Trahan (D) - 202-225-3411

Kevin Mullin (D) - 202-225-3531

Yvette Clarke (D) - 202-225-6231

Debbie Dingell (D) - 202-225-4071

Marc Veasey (D) - 202-225-9897

Robin Kelly (D) - 202-225-0773

Kim Schrier (D) - 202-225-7761

Long story short, there are about ~18 age verification/"child safety" laws being put into one big package in the House.

The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that oversees these age verification bills are voting THIS THURSDAY aka tomorrow to pass these bills onto the full committee, and then the full House. We need to drive as much opposition as we can on these bills, specifically KOSA, the App Store Accountability Act, and honestly any age verification bill which many of these are.

This is how to do it and how you can fight back on age verification

1) Call the house representatives in the committee. Use a call script if you don't know what to say

You can do it two ways. You can either go to the subcommittee site and call each one here: https://energycommerce.house.gov/committees/subcommittee/Commerce (scroll down, click their names, phone number is under their picture)

or you can use this call script to connect to members here: www.badinternetbills.com

you can use this call script too: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0

2) Spread the word! We need as much mass opposition as we can right now. So many stakeholders, policymakers, and politicians etc are looking at public opinion on these bills. We were able to stop them before because of the mass opposition, we need that again. Let everyone you know know. Spread the word!

My last post on calling reps ( has some of my own call scripts you can modify)

RED ALERT!!!! There is going to be a markup in the subcommittee on KOSA THIS THURSDAY!!!!!! (source below) Here is a list of all subcommittee members. Call as many as you can!! We need to drive mass opposition NOW. ⁠⁠ Message influencers. Post in all their comments that KOSA & worse is back. We need to drive mass calls before this vote. https://x.com/BenBrodyDC/status/1998516632176775647Ben Brody (@BenBrodyDC)

The committe members can be found here along with contact info, with exception of Kat Cammack whose phone contact is not on link but own website has her multiple office numbers CALL AS MANY AS YOU CAN

Daren Soto’s office only takes calls from constituent

Details

KOSA [house version] -omits duty of care, but there is no guarantee this stays gone -no exemption for nonprofit entities -yearly audits of platforms. could possibly include even really small ones, ex: mastodon instances, discord servers? Reducing Exploitative Social Media Exposure for Teens (RESET) Act [DRAFT BILL] -prohibits kids/teens under 16 from maintaining socoial-media accounts Sammy's LAW [H.R 2657] -drastically increases surveillance of children -leaves children MORE vulnerable to having their data and privacy violated -isolates LGBTQ children App Store Accountability Act [H.R.3149] -requires Age Verification at the app store level -transmitting Age Signals to developers. SCREEN ACT [H.R.1623] -instates nationwide age verification for websites lawmakers deem "harmful to minors" -could include anything from porn sites to socmed, fanfiction sites or telecom networks. -forces websites to contract with shady 3rd party verification companies -collects and stores our ID info like drivers licenses and passports in insecure databases -backed by far right politicians and anti-porn groups Safer Guarding of Adolescents from Malicious Interactions on Network Games (GAMING) Act [HR. 6265] -seeks to add parental tools to help act as safeguards for children -the issue is, it seeks to install said safeguards by default, and the legislation goes hand in hand with AV legislation Parents Over Platforms Act -Age Verification for apps

CALL SCRIPTS FROM BLUESKY

"

I'm calling today regarding the hearing for December 2nd in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the package of 19 bills meant for "Online Child Safety." The package itself includes harmful trojan-horse bills disguised under "Online Child Safety", which include: The House's version of KOSA COPPA 2.0 SCREEN Act RESET Act Sammy's law App Store Accountability Act GAMING Act Safe Messaging for Kids Act Parents Over Platforms Act

These bills are: repealing section 230 would Opponents warn that repealing Section 230 could lead to increased censorship, a flood of litigation and a chilling effect on innovation and free expression. Massive breaches in privacy and the first amendment. Show a complete misunderstanding of how the internet and encryption works. Add more government-invasive surveillance online. Put the lives of children and the livelihoods of adults at risk. (by collecting verification data into once place way to acquire all of it with a data breach) will lead to mass censorship of legal content online and a chilling effect on the internet similar in effect to the UK Online Safety Act Are extremely unpopular and don't protect kids. Enable predators to take advantage of the established online systems to prey on children, especially those in power. Please oppose these bills and vote "no" should any of them come to a vote before you."

My own Call scripts below cut