KOSA is dead. Now it’s time to unite to take on Big Tech for real.
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The controversial and unconstitutional Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is officially dead in the House of Representatives. Reporting indicates that there was significant opposition to the bill within the Republican caucus, and it faced vocal opposition from prominent progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep Maxwell Frost (D-FL). Digital rights group Fight for the Future, […]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183

Fight for the Future writes:

“The controversial and unconstitutional Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is officially dead in the House of Representatives. Reporting indicates that there was significant opposition to the bill within the Republican caucus, and it faced vocal opposition from prominent progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep Maxwell Frost (D-FL).”

Evan Greer:

"KOSA was a poorly written bill that would have made kids less safe. I am so proud of the LGBTQ youth and frontlines advocates who have led the opposition to this dangerous and misguided legislation. It’s good that this unconstitutional censorship bill is dead for now, but I am not breathing a sigh of relief. It’s infuriating that Congress wasted so much time and energy on a deeply flawed and controversial bill while failing to advance real measures to address the harms of Big Tech like privacy, antitrust and algorithmic justice legislation. "

Thanks to everybody who took action ove the last year to stop this bill!

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      5 months ago

      Senators don’t give a fuck about their constituents.

      Maybe this is different in Rhode Island and Wyoming, but in Cali the Senators don’t even have offices to take your calls if you’re a pleb. It’s like trying to get customer service from Google.

      My US rep actually does constituent services and horror meets with non-rich constituents in person sometimes!

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        Our Alberta MLA, who was also the Minister of Transportation, would sit in his agricultural equipment dealership about 2 days a week and take meetings all day with anyone that wanted to come in and talk.

        He fixed a lot of people’s problems with a few phone calls from there.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        You want hard mode?

        Try to get customer service from Steam, I’m almost convinced Valve doesn’t actually have a head quarters and Gabe Newell might be an ancient secret government AI hiding on various reels of magnetic tape in some dank basement at Area 51 that not even the President is allowed to apply to be the janitor of.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Thank goodness the GOP in the house cares not about the children. They definitely voted against it based purely on the majority of Democrats that voted on favor.

        • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          The Republicans definitely care about the children, but only in contexts that are deplorable and disgusting. Just ask Epstein’s buddy Trump.