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Censorship The kids online safety act is a surveillance/censorship bill disguised as protecting kids.

grapedApe

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Fucking greedy corpses want to sneak this shit bill through their big bills where very little opposition can be mounted. They want to "protect the kids" from "harmful things" but this bill forces sites to track their users which completely violates that claim and in order to protect kids they have to know who is using the site which means all of us would be under surveillance. One big part

KOSA would authorize a federal study on creating a device or operating system level age verification system, “including the need for potential hardware and software changes.” The end result would likely be an elaborate age-verification system, run by a third-party, that maintains an enormous database of all internet users’ data.

We are fucked. The only option left is deep/dark web assuming that bypasses government blocks forced on your pc.
 

vulonkaaz

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they're doing the child protection meme again ??


KOSA would authorize a federal study on creating a device or operating system level age verification system, “including the need for potential hardware and software changes.” The end result would likely be an elaborate age-verification system, run by a third-party, that maintains an enormous database of all internet users’ data.

We are fucked. The only option left is deep/dark web assuming that bypasses government blocks forced on your pc.
is it even technically possible ? I mean yea it is possible to force things like that on normies with iPhones but tech gigachads like us pretty much only use half-broken librebooted thinkpads running Gentoo Linux, it's not like they're actually gonna come to your house and force you at gunpoint to use their hardware
 

Hexasheep93

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As I said the last time this was brought up. This sort of thing is simply unenforceable.
I mean placing the responsability of making those changes to the big tech sites is like asking some misbehaved child to clean their room, the best you can expect is a half assed job.

And who is actually going to oversee that this new rules are actually followed, I mean look at twitter, theres some stuff there that is illegal now and they only act and get rid of it if there is enough attention on it.

Im not saying we shouldnt be worried but I think is too soon to take out the black pills
 

grapedApe

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It's fucking back again along with the EARN IT act and paired with the STOP CSAM act

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/18/earn-it-act-is-back-and-its-still-terribly-destructive/

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/04/20/2023/executive-business-meeting

https://www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/STOP CSAM Act of 2023.pdf

The stop csam act alone isn't terrible (so far) but paired with earn it or kosa worsens the entire thing. They plan on passing all three by this summer.

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I now believe this entire shitshow will pass. congress is re-using the tactic that helped FOSTA pass by having dove (the soap corp) and lizzo shill KOSA.

 
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grapedApe

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Nope, the STOP CSAM act is as terrible as expected

 

HYppog

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And people wonder why China is gaining ground in global political theatre. It's hard selling USA democracy when you can't even get your act together on something simple as ensuring freedom of citizen without some wolf in morality clothing ruining things for everyone.
 

grapedApe

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All of the bills I've posted about before (Kids Online Safety Act, STOP CSAM Act, EARN IT Act, RESTRICT Act and Cooper Davis Act) are now possibly going to be added to the "must-pass" NDAA bill the senate is debating right now. Going to have to go the darknet in a few months.
 
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