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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me.The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship.

KOSA would seriously endanger teenagers’ ability to access information. The bill creates liability for platforms that fail to block young people from a list of content that it deems harmful. The natural result of this censorious scheme is that a large amount of material will likely be banned outright or put out of the reach of children, leaving huge holes in what information is accessible online. And online services are likely to implement this censorship with poorly working filters, which we know fail to properly distinguish “good” speech from “bad” speech.This bill is a heavy-handed plan to prevent minors from accessing content that the state believes is not in their best interest, as defined by the Federal Trade Commission and 50 state attorneys general. Tell your Senator and representative to vote NO on this bill.Related Content

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KOSA will also remove apps/websites like discord , c.ai , ao3 ect. It will also remove LGBTQ+ content , and as parents can see your phone content - if you're lgbtqia+ that could go horribly for people with homophobic parents. This is going to go around worldwide , not just in america. If you want access to a non censored internet- you have to give your fucking GOVERNMENT ID.

KOSA will not remove Discord, Ao3, c.ai, etc., but rather censor it. This is an important distinction.

This isn't going worldwide, but it could. However, as of now, it's not the most pressing of notions.

You do not yet have to give your government id exclusively. Rather, if that specific version of KOSA (put simply) is passed, you would have to provide some sort of confirmation that you are above the age of 13, which could come in the form of a government id.

Thank you for this warning, though! This is true and horrifying. If this bill is passed, not only would it be harmful to queer kids, it would facilitate even more information digging by social media apps, porn websites, etc. than now.

Because KOSA’s chief focus is not to protect young people’s privacy. The bill’s main aim is to censor a broad swath of speech in response to concerns that young people are spending too much time on social media, and too often encountering harmful content.

Put simply, the bill mandates content censorship on various platforms, affecting everything from major social media sites (Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, etc.) to web browsers (Firefox, Google, DuckDuckGo, etc.) and messaging apps (iMessage, Discord, Whatsapp, etc.), all of which provide wildly different services and have wildly different audiences.

The vague standards set by KOSA would make it challenging for platforms to differentiate harmful content from necessary information, thus limiting access to medical, mental health, and potentially life-saving resources for both adults and children.

Moreover, KOSA would incentivize implementing an elaborate age-verification system, leading to potential privacy invasions and undermining parents' ability to make decisions for their own children online -- not to mention the dangerous ignorance towards the many whose parent's supervision could be harmful rather than helpful (including queer, neurodivergent, etc. children.)

This article goes a lot more in depth, providing examples and hard evidence. I really recommend y'all check it out. I promise you will not regret it.

Once more, for the people in the back:

Schizophrenics are neurodivergent, too!