i don’t post often but this is Extremely important! Moots and anyone else who sees this and lives in the US Please call your lawmakers and committee members to keep them from pushing KOSA and 18 other anti internet and age verification bills AND repealing section 230.
Section 230 is what keeps the internet alive. Because it prevents companies from being liable from what their users post, websites will not be able to keep up with billions of users posting and will either mass censor Everything (probably using ai) or just shut everything down and nobody will be able to post or comment.
bills like KOSA and the SCREEN Act are all just ways for the government to force censorship on topics like LGBTQ+ and mass surveillance BUT WE STILL HAVE TIME but we have to make as much noise as we can Right Now!
contract your representatives! make your opposing of these bills known and spread the awareness on this! calling is the most effective way to do this but emailing also does help!
i’m going to link rescoures to help here:
FIRST: badinternetbills. more information and lists out all the bills involved, fill out a form that automatically emails your representative and automatically puts you through to make calls to representatives and with a script you can follow if need be.
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
SECOND: another way of calling and script for emailing! plus even more information.
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr
THIRD: carrd with additional resources, two petitions, a survey. other organizations, a way for non americans to help and a way to keep track of the bill!
STOP KOSA
