#call now

Alright everyone I’m here again to ask for your help for shutting KOSA and every other internet bill down. As of today we have only five days to blow up their phones and fax machines about how much we hate, no, despise these bills.

Every call matters, every single one. No matter how brief, no matter how messy, it will always matter. Because they don’t look at the quality, they look at the quantity. And if enough pressure is applied even their cowardice will eventually win over their greed.

And even if you don’t have the voice to call you can always help me the server spread the word. There’s always something to be done, so let’s get to work.

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Discord link

:"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 Senate Commerce Committee will markup KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and other age verification/online censorship bills. That means we need to call TODAY to oppose.

Spread the word, call, fax, and email. You can call members of the Senate Commerce Committee even if they aren't your Senator. Just please take action: 248-331-8665

IT'S BEEN 1 DAY SINCE I CALLED MY BFF

I'm gonna explode..

Repost from @adcnational

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