#kosma

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?

So Ted Cruz says he wants to get going on the KOSA package rolling in about 6 weeks!

Link: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/12/congress/cruz-seeks-to-advance-senate-kids-privacy-proposals-in-next-six-weeks-00825098

This man and everyone in the government is a damn menance, and they will not let up until they have mass surveillance and government control! Screw these authoritarian and fascist politicians here!

🙏PLEASE DON'T WAIT THE FATE OF THE INTERNET IS IN YOUR HANDS!🙏

⭐️🇺🇸CALL YOUR REPS! SIGN PETITIONS AND START PROTESTS!!!! SAVE THE INTERNET!!!!🇺🇸⭐️

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.

kosma was recently introduced into congress, and so we might need to focus on that, and kosa.

also, i have heard that california has passed this from commerce. no, it hasn't passed yet, but it'll be a bit harder now to get it out of there.

also, i have recently heard that canada's also getting into the age verification as well.

also, for the age verification thing going on in youtube, i might've made a mistake in the initial post. in the post, i stated that they'll push it on everyone on august 13th. that is not true. i read that part wrong. apparently, they are going to test it out first, before they do it to everyone. i would like to apologize for any of those. however, i might have something that our message can get to them. obviously, don't attack them while you write your messages. however, they need to hear us out, before they ruin whatever's left of their reputation.

i understand that everyone's tired, but please try to, at least, do something. we're not powerless. we can still stop these from happening. whether you call every day, or inform others. you can do that.