3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.::The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.
Fact: Any time a bill has a name about protecting children, it’s never actually about protecting children.
Also, what do the big tech companies have to gain by supporting this bill? They’re typically opposed to anything that can open them up to litigation.
I think the tech companies believe they’ll get good PR for a bill that purports to be about child safety. In actuality, the bill will allow them to censor anything they want on their platforms while sidestepping criticism about curtailing free speech because they can say “we’re just trying not to get sued; if you have a problem, take it up with Washington”
Seems like what they would gain is forcing users to have over PII and tracking them to access a non blocked content. It’s good for their ability to make money off advertising and forcing users into closed eco systems they control, and killing competition that doesn’t require registration.
Same with freedom/patriotism. Or really anything that’s meant to ekove a specific type of emotion.
I also narrow my eyes whenever I see the word “family” now.
Absolutely 💯💯💯. It’s almost always followed by some fearful take about protecting ourselves from some outsider who isn’t “like us” and maybe about fucking over poor people for bonus points
Control
Shields them from liability, kisses the ring of the powers that be, and makes them look like they are doing something good.
- Snap
- X
- Microsoft
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Fucking canonical, snap just keeps getting worse and worse.
The biggest take away from all this is
A handful of tech companies manage and control the majority of public information.
A handful of politicians who are in bed with the same corporations and they are all willing to control that information for their own personal religious beliefs
Serious question: If this bill passes, how will the US Internet be meaningfully different than China’s Internet, if it’s used to censor stuff the government doesn’t like?
Well… The internet was originally built on decentralized communications. We may have to transition more heavily to the darkweb, any attempts to block that would be an attack on freedom of speech.
Humanity seems to progress/regress in waves. We’ll try to ride this out, and some of us will use ingenuity to make a taller ladder vs the govt’s taller walls. They can never keep pace.
Why not Lemmy / Mastodon / etc.? IDK if we need “dark web”. We just need to decentralize.
I say dark web only in protection in transit of important/forbidden info.
I realize that was confusing, but yeah, any decentralized system should be applicable, just needs to add protecting the data while traveling, and who is looking at it.
Isps could take them down. Maybe requiring each site to state what it’s using it for and forcing requirements down. If China can do it, U.S could follow too.
SnapChat, Microsoft, and twitter.
Those are the three.
I’d say to boycott them but you already probably have if you’re here
Snapchat and X, definitely. But microsoft is unavoidable for work.
But microsoft is unavoidable for work.
I’ve worked in fintech almost 10 years and don’t recall a single windows machine, let alone a single piece of necessary windows service. Even the sales and marketing people use macs at least
Google and AWS are much harder to with without.
E: also just to note you can personallyboycott tech you’re forced to use by work, and even comparing about the company’s ethics at work
True, my it department has told me no Linux or libreoffice. One of the it guys wasn’t happy about that rule either
Glad I only use 1 of those and even than just for my boring job.
In the fall, Jezebel reported how a bipartisan bill ostensibly meant to protect children from harmful content online could be weaponized by Republican politicians to censor everything from LGBTQ+ content to sex ed info to abortion resources—and for all internet users, not just children.
This is so dystopian
Always assume the worst case scenario. This bill is another version of the “Patriot Act” that extends to whatever your dumbass state wants it to ban.
As an aside, they always say to edit your message to your representatives. What do you say?
Oo very nice. I might have to donate money for that shirt.
For whatever reason, when I hear KOSA, it conjures up SOPA and PIPA. Feels like it’s been so long since any of these came up but I guess existential-level threats to internet content and privacy never fully die~
It’s because this bill is the evolution of those bills.
they will keep trying until the most egregious censorship passes
the system is broken, rebel or your internet is done for.
Have these people nothing better to do.
Nobody defended communities discussing illegal things, then nobody defended communities discussing questionable legal things, then nobody defended disfavored things like firearms channels/YouTubers, now it’s your turn.
I don’t have enough money to play the game.
Removed by mod
It’s futile I’m afraid
I can’t wait for porn to be blurred out crotches and boobs with little stars instead of nipples. Darn!
It was perfect! In case you are reading this in the future next couple of years, back in 2024, you just typed a few words on the search engine and you too could witness excellent quality videos of various men and women having fun with their body parts in ways that you didn’t even think were possible, and are too weak to do if you had anyone to do them with. We are talking penises, mouths, vaginas, balls and boobs and their various combinations.
Violence is an answer.
This will probably what will happen.
Probably something to do with healthcare costs and preventing people from taking FMLA for babies
