Any time a bill claims to be about protecting children, 10/10 times it’s actually hiding something more sinister that has nothing to do with that. I don’t trust this.
You’d be right in this case too. It’s extremely sketchy, it’s pretty much absolute censorship power with only an informal promise that it won’t be used for anything nefarious (but a refusal to actually codify anything preventing that). “Harmful content” is left very conveniently vague.
Can you elaborate on that claim? I couldn’t find anything substantial in the article.
The Crypto Wars have never ended. Governments dream of a world without public access to encryption and privacy. And many government attacks on encryption are done “for the children”.
The EFF isn’t a fan and various other rights orgs have worked against KOSA.
Also for anyone scrolling by, that EFF page contains a tool in the “Take Action” button that can find your relevant representative and provide you with an email template that you can personalize and they will send on your behalf. (also has a link to a guide on the tool page to find and contact your representatives if you don’t want to trust their tool)
Ha I sent a letter to my representative about this a while ago and got back a reply that amounted to “thanks but we don’t care”
Bipartisan is a really bad sign. My money says this is not going to be aimed at actually addressing the underlying profit motive that drives big tech to purposefully promote misery through their algorithm designs, instead it will be further restriction on users freedoms and privacy.
That’s how broken democracy has become - bipartisan legislation is not a good indicator that a bill is uncontroversial and useful.
Given that they have pushed this bill I don’t know like what is this the sixth go round, I’m sure that there is actually nothing good in this bill for the average American internet user.
At the same time I’m sure it’ll be very good for the average American corporate technological oligopoly.
Not one mention of the word “KOSA” in the article, had to check if this is the “appoint one person in the commerce department and have their definition of ‘harmful’ be what the government now can totally ban from the united states internet” bill.
If Trump wins, “harmful” will be defined as any mention online that the United States use to be a democracy instead of a kingship.
Well that is a terrifying headline.
