Hello! Ah'm Macha, and meh sisters and Ah are gettin' pretty bored here in the Ire... Figured we'd give this a try! ((This is a spin off RP blog of The Raven's Pickings. Sometimes Morgana may show up...)) EDIT: Morgana has taken over, the girls are in Burgess taking a break from 'Mummy'. Current M!A: None
Tldw; there is majority support in the European Parliament for a bill that would cover most of SKG's issues, and if passed this would bypass the decision of the Commission. There are also ongoing lawsuits in France and other places that would likely lead to some legislation. There is also a bill being worked on in California that wouldn't stop current games from being killed, but would stop future games from being killed
So in addition to KOSA making a return (CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AGAINST IT BTW!!!) the Senate has just introduced TWO internet censorship bills!
The Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors Act (Block BEARD Act)
And the equally ridiculous and ineffective Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act
Both of these acts seek to force Internet Service Providers to block access to foreign piracy websites. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said this is ridiculous and ineffective, that site-blocking bills only serve to censor the internet and make it more unsafe for everyone. AND THE'YRE RIGHT!!!
Piracy has existed until the dawn of time. And pirates will find ways around bills like these with no issue. But these bills are still dangerous and essentially pave the way for your ISP to block whatever our government thinks is "Objectionable". These DINOSAURS who dont understand the internet have no BUSINESS creating legislation around it. This is a bald faced attempt to block the internet for users for corporate gain. Wanna know how I know that?
The people that have endorsed the bill
Are all
People
Who
Would benefit from a bill like this. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!! TELL THEM YOU DO NOT SUPPORT EITHER OF THESE BILLS! OR KOSA WHILE YOURE AT IT! TELL THEM YOU OPPOSE INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN ALL FORMS!
We will not sit idly by while these GHOULS try and block and censor a free Internet!
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! - Here's a link to find and call your representatives!
Update on KOSA and other internet censorship. Short script at bottom, longer below cut
Phone numbers for the Commerce subcommittee are below the cut, but also contact your representative
The NO FAKES Act Could Silence Satire, Commentary, And News | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The NO FAKES Act is supposed to target harmful AI-generated impersonations. But in reality, it will make it easier to suppress commentary, s
NO FAKES could also undermine the rights of the people it is supposed to protect. The new federal “likeness” right could be licensed or transferred to others, so individuals will lose control over the use of their own face and voice. That’s not theoretical—workers in the entertainment industry are routinely asked to sign broad contracts about the future use of their likenesses.
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What is happening: There is a lot of pushback on KOSA and AI regulation. KOSA due to the duty of care and other problems, some in congress want it worse and some want it not as bad. AI regulation is the same, some want it and some want to ban it. Senator Blackburn and some other GOP leadership (House GOP leadership, Ted Cruz, etc) are working with the White House to reach some type of deal including KOSA, the No Fakes Act (an AI bill that sucks really bad), and other age verification provisions. House GOP leadership is going to the R's and D's in the House Energy and Commerce Committee to strike a deal. It is very critical we put our foot down and push even harder right now, because this can go very bad very quickly.
example what to say l, longer script below cut
"Hello I am calling about the Kids Online Safety Act, The NO FAKES act, and a bunch of Age Verification mandates. being proposed
As has been said before, these age verification bills collect data all in one place for hackers to easily gather, making children less safe.
This has been shown when other countries tried like UK's Online Safety Act rollout.
KOSA not only has similar problems, but gives state attorney generals too much power to sue any website for any reason.
And finally, the No Fakes Act is written too broadly It. would make it so that all depictions of a person's likeness or voice are restricted [(not just ai generated] While sounding good on paper, this would in the process expose users, creators, platforms and developers exposed to lawsuits for everyday speech like memes and parodies. Making it so that anyone with deep-enough pockets could file a lawsuit to ANYONE they [accuse of using] AI for anything .
These are all disasters waiting to happen and I thus ask you oppose them."
and stuff on KOSA
"Multiple experts agree this bill pushes age verification, even with the new language. KOSA hands more private data of children to third party companies, by forcing it to be collected for identification purposes. That will give hackers and harasser and predators an easy way to find the information all in one place. This identification system proposal cannot replace proper parenting.
Please look elsewhere for a better way to protect our kids.
Something quick and simple to use while calling. from user spdy4
Greetings, my name is [Insert Name], and I am calling as one of your constituents to oppose KOSA, The NO FAKES act, and a bunch of Age Verification mandates. KOSA would open the door to soo many hackers, and should we really be handing our IDs and Data to Big Tech Giants like META, OpenAI, and Google? [we've seen in past with attempts in the UK that collecting this data makes it easy for hackers to find it all in one place] This would harm more children than it is protecting and goes against our first amendment rights of Free Speech and Privacy.
The NO FAKES act would make it so that all depictions of a person's likeness or voice are restricted [(not just ai generated] While sounding good on paper, this would in the process expose users, creators, platforms and developers exposed to lawsuits for everyday speech like memes and parodies. Making it so that anyone with deep-enough pockets could file a lawsuit to ANYONE they [accuse of using] AI for anything .
And Age Verification Mandates would require users to disclose personal information before accessing lawful speech online. Eliminating anonymity, and threatening our privacy. Making the Internet reveal ourselves on the internet where many people will be at Great risk of being exposed, having their data harvested by data brokers, and is incompatible with our God-given American right to free-expression. These bills would make the internet worse for everyone, and our economy. There are better ways of protecting kids online, but these bills would put this kids, and even adults into seriously grave danger. I urge you to say No to these bills, and to keep the Internet private, and open to the American peopl
"Feel free to change it to suit your preferences, based on what political party you're calling, or just to make it more factual. Hope this helps!"
202 225 0773 unavailable as of 8 PM EST, please use others here http://robinkelly.house.gov/contact/offices Zipcodes https://www.house.gov/htbin/ziplook_find?ssdd=il02
privacy concerns and trojan horse aside, i hate how condescending and nonsensical the government and the media have been towards young people regarding the ‘under 16s social media ban’ in the uk. banning kids from using social media, but plastering them all over the news and social media? a 15 year old not being allowed to watch youtube when they might be revising for gcses/mocks? labour wanting to give 16 year olds the right to vote, yet not allowing them to form opinions from other people via social media and making them rely on highly propagandised news sources? banning social media platforms when there’s barely leisure activities young people can do without adults calling the police? 16-17 years olds having the right to take driving lessons and join the army, but not being allowed to scroll on tiktok in the evening? taking away lifelines for disabled, queer and isolated youth? it’s so obvious that this was never about protecting children.
So unfortunately The No Fakes Act passed the sub committee, I think you can just copy the link to see it: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/18/congress/anti-deep-fake-bill-advances-to-senate-floor-00967021
⭐️🇺🇸NO FAKES ACT UPDATE GUYS. IT PASSED THE SUB COMMITTEE !!!🇺🇸⭐️
THIS IS BAD GUYS! THE NO FAKES ACT DOES A TON OF BAD THINGS!!!!
"it's for the kids" yet nobody has say in it, no adult can opt out, and your privacy is at risk
"it's for the kids" yet children in abusive or oppressive households no longer have a support system online
"it's for the kids" yet the people passing these bills are involved some of the biggest global "💍" 's known to man
"it's for the kids" yet you're allowing the government to 👀 you more, little by little, as each law is set in stone
"it's for the kids" yet they're passing laws in some countries that require you to scan your eyes just to use your phone
will it still be "good" and "for the kids" when you can't do anything without being watched? will it still be "for the kids" when governments start purposefully filtering news and what sites you're allowed to visit and see, even when you do verify yourself? will it still be "for the kids" when you no longer own anything? will it still be "for the kids" when they continue to cross personal boundaries, or will you continue to be willfully ignorant and part of the problem? will it still be "for the kids" when you no longer have any online freedom?
The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.
So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.
So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...
There has been a lot of back door movement on KOSA and a lot seems to be happening behind the scenes.
First, Marsha Blackburn negotiates with the White House on a package that would bundle age verification and AI "regulation" together, only for KOSA supporters like Richard Blumenthal and META to oppose it and question the decision.
No matter what, it seems like this coalition isn't on the same page, and we can take advantage of this friction if we continue to make noise!
The company’s objections helped kill the kids' safety bill nearly two years ago.
a mike peance think tank and 16 other groups (like netchoice) is fully against these kid safety bills, like KOSA and app store accountability
their worried about the data breaches of age verification and the anti free speech of KOSA with it's duty of care bill
I couldn't put up a source, so please look up "politico, Pence-backed think tank joins push to keep kids’ safety bills out of AI package"
🇺🇸⭐️YEAH, TOLD YOU GUYS THERE ARE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES FIGHTING FOR US! ⭐️🇺🇸
Wow, I never thought I would hear the name Mike Pence again after Trumps first term. It's like seeing a cryptid 😂. I'm kind of shocked he is against this!
Direct quote from the article:
"Think tanks including the libertarian R Street Institute, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, and industry group NetChoice, are among the 13 total signatories. They take issue primarily with ASAA, which would require app store platforms such as Google and Apple to verify users’ ages, and KOSA." (There are other organizations/people out there too that are against this it's more than them.)
People who are for ID verification are so unbelievably stupid.
"If you have nothing to hide..."
Hey, snap back to reality for a sec. The powers one party gives themselves gets transferred to the next. You can very easily end up with something to hide when the opposing party gets in.
Take for example what is occurring in the USA and the UK with trans people.
... Also it's still illegal to be gay in a vast number of countries. I dare say gay people in those countries have something to hide...
"Well, it's no different from the liquor store!"
The liquor store doesn't store a copy of your ID in their back room that thieves can break in and steal.
Unlike verification services that may or may not retain a copy of your ID. You don't know until it's too late. Even if they say "we delete it uwu" - there have been companies that say that, but have been found to have kept the information on file.
And when that data gets stolen? Well... Data can be copied and sold multiple times. Who knows how many people end up with a copy of your ID, passport, or whatever? You don't know... Until it's too late :)
Etc. Etc. All of their arguments are unbelievable headass stupid.
Seen a post that says that a 19 bill package that includes KOSA, SCREEN Act, and COPPA 2.0, has passed the House subcommittee last week.
I felt like I missed something here because I haven't heard about an age verification bill package passing since March with the KIDS ACT bill package. Could tell me what happened?
🇺🇸⭐️I did some research,but I couldn't find anything about it passing the sub committee. ⭐️🇺🇸
I tried different sites, nothing. Plus I think it would be bigger news since it's on everyones radar.
I think they still might be getting meetings together and everything for these bills. That's what it seems like to me from research.
A lot of people disagree with it, and it is very controversial, so there are A LOT of people fighting about it in that space. There will also be A LOT of fighting when they start getting down to business.
The government/politicians have actually been debating this for the past 2 or 3 years. (Yes, this is how long these laws have been being considered. They just weren't as widely talked about until now because it is being implemented in other countries.)
If anyone has info on the situation or something I might have missed while researching, feel free to come forward!
⚔️✊️GUYS, WE STILL HAVE TIME! CALL YOUR REPS! SIGN PETITIONS AND PROTEST. ✊️⚔️
Hey my fellow degenerate writers, Spectrotica here. I don't usually write political stuff on this site, but I REALLY need you all to be aware of this because this involves our digital freedom to write and post whatever we like on the internet, especially if you're queer or an NSFW fan.
The U.S. Congress is trying to pass internet regulation and age verification bills that includes KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act), the SCREEN Act, and COPPA 2.0, all in a 19-bill package that will kill the internet as we know it and mass censor every website that we as writers thrive on, all in the name of "protecting children's online privacy", and the House subcommittee have unfortunately passed those bills last week, but they are moving forward to full committee. And to add salt to the wounds, they're also planning on getting rid of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects websites from being liable for posts made by users (meaning websites like this one would be forced to shut down to avoid lawsuits).
And they're doing it; because they're claiming that it's to 'protect children from Big Tech's influence', but in reality, they're trying to control everyone's free speech and freedom on the internet, particularly LGBTQ+ people and NSFW creators, because many Democrats we've trusted in Congress are failing to understand that these garbage plans to "protect children" is a smokescreen for the conservative right to eliminate the existence of queer people, NSFW writers, and other minorities from the internet, as part of their fascist Mandate for Leadership: Project 2025 agenda to label every single site they personally don't like as 'harmful to minors' and have them forcibly removed.
So, who am I?
Just an exhausted transgender woman who's a cock-addict, male-on-male writer and have just found her true calling on AO3 and Pixiv while coping in this cishet fascist dystopia we're forced to live in, and now... they want to take that away from us too.
The irony is almost comedic: the same politicians who scream about 'freedom of speech' are stripping away ours, the same ones who clutch their pearls over 'protecting kids' are actively erasing ours. Like fucking shut up!
My mind haven't stopped spinning since last week, especially after watching the Democrats' egregious plan on introducing a new federal bill to gut Section 230. They seem to not give a damn about how much this would hurt all of us, and would rather keep believing in their fucking made-up fantasy that any of these bills would actually protect kids, when in actuality, kids will just find a way around them as they always have, while queer people and NSFW creators alike, will suffer the most. It's always US, the adults who just want to make a living on social media, who have to be punished and pay for what lazy parents have wrought, all because they bitch and whine about what our content does to their kids, when they should, I don't know, USE THE DAMN PARENTAL CONTROLS! Like HELLO!?
It's not just the internet either, they're trying to cement this shit into law, bill by bill, vote by vote, with no second thought as to its consequences. The Democrats have been turning their backs on us more frequently now than ever before, and the fact that we can't rely on them anymore is absolutely sickening. Even the Republicans who claim to be "pro-free speech" are just waiting in the wings to push their own Orwellian shit—censorship under the guise of "decency," surveillance under the banner of "security," and control packaged as "protection."
Meanwhile, not many people (including big-name LGBTQ+ orgs) are talking about this looming disaster, too distracted by performative rainbow capitalism or midterm election-year optics. But I scroll through Bluesky and X and see the panic spreading tweet by tweet. I'm sure by now that fanfic writers are archiving entire libraries, artists scrambling to watermark and back up decades of work, and NSFW modders for games are quietly shifting operations offshore. This is an underground pipeline of survival that queer kids have used for decades to find community when their schools, churches, and families failed them.
Somewhere in Texas, a 16-year-old is downloading every trans healthcare guide they can find before the archives vanish. In Florida, a bi furry artist is encrypting their Patreon sketches just in case. And me? I’m in Virginia downloading as many gay porn videos, fiction stories, and artwork to have them saved in my files, because I'll be DAMNED if I let these homophobic fascists erase our entire history in a 1930s Germany book burning level.
I can't express enough how FUCKING SICK I am of these unhinged boomers and their goddamn moral panic crusades! Like, newsflash: you don’t get to decide what the entire internet should look like just because YOU failed to monitor what your crotch goblins are doing online! Maybe, just maybe, if these privileged fucks back in 2018 had listen to whom they like to call "alarmist" leftists when we warned them about the slippery slope of SESTA/FOSTA instead of patting themselves on the back for "preventing sex trafficking", we wouldn't be in this mess right now! But here we are, in 2025, staring down the barrel of their "think of the children" bullshit while they actively burn every bridge queer and NSFW communities have built for survival.
Listen up, because this isn’t rhetorical: CALL YOUR REPS!!!
Call them every single fucking day! Flood their offices until their phones melt. Tag every "Democratic" politician who’s cozying up to this censorship shit and remind them they work for US, not the goddamn Heritage Foundation. Screenshot their empty platitudes about 'protecting marginalized voices' and throw them back in their faces when they vote to erase us. This isn’t just about smut—it’s about whether queer teens in Alabama get to find PDFs of "The Transgender Teen" before their parents kick them out, or if disabled artists can still monetize their niche porn commissions when Patreon folds under legal threats.
I'm watching people, mostly Gen Zers and Millennials, beginning to talk about KOSA and other similar bills. But meanwhile, the Human Rights Campaign and the Trevor Project are still not saying a word about it. Wake the hell up. This is how fascism win: by making us too exhausted to fight while they chisel away at our rights in increments so small they’re almost imperceptible. Until one day you wake up and the only "safe" internet left is a sanitized wasteland where every search for "gay" redirects to conversion therapy pamphlets.
And yeah, I know. It feels impossible. But remember: fascists didn’t burn the Weimar Republic’s queer archives in a day. They did it while everyone was too busy arguing over "respectability." So grab your fucking matches. Archive everything. Spam every legislator’s inbox. Print out zines and leave them in bathroom stalls. Do whatever you have to, because I will not let them pretend we didn’t exist.
Found some news from preston byrne and Netchoice I was hoping you could let everyone know please?
NetChoice Applauds Sens. Cruz and Wyden for Introducing the JAWBONE Act to Stop Government Censorship - NetChoice
Preston Byrne on X: "The JAWBONE Act is best thought of as a patch for one of two major censorship vectors for online speech. The first of these, which it addresses, is USG jawboning where it can't act directly. The second, foreign censorship, remains to be addressed. https://t.co/tiQCIbYGE5 https://t.co/tE6D6Qzhsp" / X
Preston Byrne on X: "I will be participating in a webinar hosted by @ITIFdc on July 8th, "How Should The United States Respond to Foreign Regulation of Online Speech?" https://t.co/1KfO7ZQHwl" / X
Preston Byrne on X: "If the UK government would like to understand what online services and speech regulations it needs to repeal and replace to catch up to the U.S. in the AI race, helpfully, the @ASI already wrote the bill to do it. Here you go https://t.co/nmivFwutz6" / X
Preston Byrne on X: "Starmer seeks British carve-out from Trump’s Anthropic AI ban We can give them that if they exempt American companies from the Online Safety Act. I’d say that’s a fair trade https://t.co/cyrTqHE2gy" / X
🇺🇸⭐️NETCHOICE AND PRESTON BYRNE NEWS!⭐️🇺🇸
The developments within the past few days in age verfication have been less that ideal.
DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE! THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO! (I see a lot of people getting down about it. You can be sad and take breaks for your mental health ,but still keep moving! Do not let that keep you from fighting! Be productive and have faith/hope!)
⚔️✊️CONTACT YOUR REPS. SIGN PETITIONS AND PROTEST! ✊️⚔️
Stop killing games is setting up a sister campaign called “stop killing the internet”
It’s all about stop these censorship laws and age verification
They talk about how messed up it is that instead of threatening CEOs to give users more power over their own devices or algorithms, but to set up curfews and age verification
It fully launches in about 13 days!
https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/
⭐️🗣🌐NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TAKING ABOUTTT!!!! LET'S GOOOO!!!! 🌐🗣⭐️
Link: https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/
Great news! I'm excited to see where this goes :D ! I know right now there are a lot of people working behind the scenes right now that we can't see.
Campaigns like this keep popping up, and it gives me hope! Let this give you hope, too!
⚔️✊️KEEP FIGHTING OUT THERE GUYS! WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! ✊️⚔️
(Thank you, @gentleman-velvet , for this wonderful news :) 🙏💕!
I’m too sad to film a video right now but please. PLEASE. Call your senators and reps to reject KOSA again. Tell them to oppose all digital ID laws. Please.
"we need to stop age verification because it'd create a surveillance state!"
"YES! And because it would lead to the suicide of numerous queer kids and cut off abused kids from their only lifelines right?"
"... ... ..."
"...Even if age verification COULD be done without endangering our IDs we'd still be fighting tooth and nail against it to prevent children from dying, right????"
The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.
So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.
So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...
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