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HLMenckenFan to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids”

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The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids”

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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that allows for a wide range of government penalties for online speech, could soon be passed by Congress. If that happens, the access we have to information may be forever changed. KOSA will make state prosecutors and federal bureaucrats the final arbiters...
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  • @Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    166•2 years ago

  • @randon31415@lemmy.world
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    77•2 years ago

    Not the US government, republicans and one random house dem that seems to hate technology.

    • @knyuqlr@lemmy.world
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      43•2 years ago

      The bill has 21 Democrats as cosponsors (22 Republicans). Source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1409/cosponsors

      • @Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world
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        33•2 years ago

        oMg boTh sIdeS aRe nOt tHe sAmE… except for when it comes to eroding freedoms

    • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      13•2 years ago

      Not the US government, republicans and one random house dem that seems to hate technology.

      Whose the Dem?

      • @RustyShackleford@lemmy.world
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        12•2 years ago

        Blumenthal, of course.

        • @Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world
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          13•2 years ago

          What about the other 20?

        • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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          2•2 years ago

          Why do say of course?

          • MiscreantMouse
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            16•2 years ago

            He’s always the one giving a ‘bipartisan’ veneer to these awful bills. Here’s one trying to end encryption, which he co-sponsored with Lindsey Graham

            • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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              1•2 years ago

              WTF then he isn’t a Democrat if he co authoring bills with Graham.

  • @MagneticFusion@lemm.ee
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    • Teon
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      21•2 years ago

      And then they lower the age that kids can get married to 14/15 (pedos!), and change labor laws so pre-teens can work in dangerous jobs or serve alcohol.
      If they want to protect “children”, we need Xtra restrictive gun laws, and child abuse laws. Who protects children from abuse at home?
      Not conservatives, they are the ones behind all this.

    • @Chreutz@lemmy.world
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      9•2 years ago

      Except when it’s guns

    • HLMenckenFanOP
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      5•2 years ago

      Exactly right.

    • Melpomene
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  • QubaXR
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    46•2 years ago

    Somehow it never crossed their minds to stop selling firearms to teens, but vendor Internet in the name of protecting kids? Sign us up. Fuck that.

    Pretty much any bill, worldwide, that includes the phrase “project kids” is always about pushing censorship, government surveillance and other forms of oppression on everyone. And guess what: zero actual benefit to kids.

  • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    38•2 years ago

    This is quite scary. I don’t know if it being on the calendar means they’re guaranteed to vote on it but the text of the bill would completely fuck the Fediverse. You literally need paid personnel to comply with these regulations.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3663/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs

    • @db2@sopuli.xyz
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      22•2 years ago

      Host somewhere else. They’re not the world police.

      • @EatMyDick3@lemmy.world
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    • Bizarroland
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      15•2 years ago

      I guess we’ll just become criminals and host our servers in countries that actually respect freedom.

  • @whataboutshutup@discuss.online
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    37•2 years ago

    Why old men are so obsessed with kids? Are they pedo or something?

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      49•2 years ago

      It’s never about kids. If they gave half a fuck about kids, we’d have free school lunches and teachers would be paid a fair salary.

      So long as the internet is around to distribute fact-checks and officer-involved homicide videos they have no plausible lies by which the 80% of us in poverty or precarity should tolerate the abuse of plutocrats and capitalists.

      So this is a first amendment issue: it’s about suppression of political speech. It always was 🌍 👩‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀 🌑

    • @T156@lemmy.world
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      8•2 years ago

      They’re a convenient scapegoat. You can accuse the other side of not caring about/endangering children for political points, and children don’t have politically-relevant opinions, or votes, so you’re never going to have children speaking up and going “that’s not correct”, or protesting against you for a law you’ve passed. If they do end up protesting, you can point fingers at the parents and say that they’re indoctrinating the children.

  • mPony
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    30•2 years ago

    every time they say it’s to “protect the children” or “protect freedom” it is invariably neither.

    • HLMenckenFanOP
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  • stravanasu
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    24•2 years ago

    Culturally we’re going back to the Middle Ages…

    • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      11•2 years ago

      Specifically the Dark Ages.

  • @salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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    24•2 years ago

    Perhaps politicians should concentrate on making it so there’s less depressing stuff in the world for anyone to see and hear, and not creating more of it with things like this rubbish bill. 🤷‍♀️

  • @viliam@feddit.ch
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    24•2 years ago

    Fine, so who will be judging if there’s a depressive content on the internet, a psychologist? Also how about non-US sites, will they be banned or something?

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    22•2 years ago

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  • karrbs
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    20•2 years ago

    Isn’t this also the bill that could screw up encryption too?

  • Xylight (Photon dev)
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    19•2 years ago

    woah no way

    in other news, every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

  • Arobanyan
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    18•2 years ago

    Knowing Biden he’s all in on this, he signed off on the Patriot Act too so f*** him

    neoliberals are just as bad as Republicans

    • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      19•2 years ago

      Neoliberals are conservatives. They go on the same smoldering pile.

      • @RobotToaster@infosec.pub
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        7•2 years ago

        “The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere

        • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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          My god that’s brilliant!

      • EnderWi99in
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        Not even close, but try again. They just look the same when you’re so far left you need to squint to see anyone to the right of you. There is a massive gap between “neoliberals” as you call them, and the modern conservative electorate. Those “neoliberals” also represent the majority of voters on the left, hence the guy who is president being one of them. Stay mad though.

        • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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          4•2 years ago

          You sure know how to use a lot of words to say nothing.

          Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Even when no cogent thought is formed.

          • @HellAwaits@lemm.ee
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            1•2 years ago

            Nah they made perfect sense and you responded with “nuh uh”

            Stay mad, lib

  • GreenBottles
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    12•2 years ago

    it has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with destroying privacy

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