i'm realizing now i've been gone for a hot minute in concerns to this blog and posting about alterhuman things
and that i've only come back a bit recently to reblog various concerns about Palestine, urgent internet bills/political related things, ect (which, there will likely be more reblogs on things relating to other events of crisis, Sudan and Congo for example)
and so with that, i wanted to say that i don't know if i'll return to post more alterhuman things anytime soon, simply because i'm easily stressed out by social media often.
i'll still post about current events going on because i genuinely can't let myself stay quiet about that, if anything
but in the meantime, i wanted to provide some personal updates;
★ i turned 16 a bit ago
★ i discovered i felt more comfortable with being otherlink, as well as likely having a nonhuman connection to canines (unsure of what yet but it is Likely otherlink if not otherkin)
★ drawing isn't really a hobby anymore as of right now, moreso a thing i just know how to do (as if i ever posted my art)
★ can't find much time to read lately but that might change
★ became a punk
if any of you did really look into this acc, i'm sorry for my absence
not saying that as if i'm leaving, but i'll primarily be posting about current situations or bills that need to be brought to attention
at the same time however, i'll be doing as much as i'm capable to do—my mental health isn't and hasn't been the best, and at the same time i may not post for a bit about anything from stress, increased pessimism, ect
There remain 30 federal judge vacancies! Please contact Democrat senators now to get them moving!
If you're looking for something easy and quick that you can do to make a difference, there are 47 federal judicial vacancies. There are only nominees listed for 17 of them.
The filibuster for judicial appointments no longer exists, and we still have Democratic control of the Senate for 2 months.
If you have Democratic senators, CALL AND EMAL THEM and tell them to get nominees in for each vacancy, and ram confirmation through before the Senate changes hands. Calling Schumer (+ telling him to pass the No Kings Act) and any others you have time to will help.
Apply pressure on something specific like this and you can get movement - more than if we do nothing. The courts must be as entrenched against Trump as we can make them in the next 2 months.
If they tell you this kind of things takes time, tell them they lost that time. Remind them that some of these vacancies have existed since 2021 and 2022. Thirty of those vacancies are from before this year. Deadline's up. They need to get it done.
Every senator has a .gov website that should have an email form and office numbers, but emails are only for people who live in their state. You can search your senator's name followed by "phone numbers" and you'll typically be able to go straight to the page that lists phone numbers for all their locations. If you have trouble with that, search your senator's name followed by "office locations." Each call counts. If you have trouble with live conversations, you can call most of them after hours and leave a voicemail - if you make a mistake, press # to rerecord.
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RECENT UPDATES ON THE BAD INTERNET CALIFORNIA BILLS:
Sadly, both AB1949 and SB976 passed and are now on their way to the governors desk.
We need him to veto them so they dont become Law.
If you havent Heard of the danger of those bills for the Internet , this post explain it thoroughly :
- Post doing a deep explanation on those bills here
I CANNOT emphasize enough how these would have a global effect on the Internet given that most websites and apps originates from California and not all of them could afford either following those bills or moving states.
Now, as the bills are on their way to the governor, we need Californian citizens to voice their oppositions to those bills to the Governor Gavin Newsome HERE
(Non California peeps, we are urging you to share this as well!!! )
Please keep in mind that calling with phone is much,much more efficient.
You can also send faxes with Faxzero
Here are scripts you can use as arguments : (text/alt version below the read more )
Than you for reading. Even if youre not from California, please spread the word anyway ! Make posts,tweets,etc
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TEXT VERSION :
AB 1949
Hello, my name is (INSERT NAME HERE) and I'm one of the Senator's constituents from (INSERT CITY HERE). I'm calling to urge the Senator to vote NO on AB 1949, the amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020. While this bill's intent is to prevent the sharing and sale of minor's information under the age of 18, the method it would intend to do so by is written far too broadly for it to be safely and reasonably implemented.
While this bill retains a safer standard of the business requiring actual knowledge of a consumer being under the age of 18 to be held liable for the sharing or sale of personal information, its wording is still too broad to exclude a default usage of age verification by online businesses in order to protect themselves from liability. Taking measures such as age verification, age assurance, or other data collection and analysis to determine the age of users. Even though measures like this have been proven to be vulnerable to data breaches no matter how secure they proclaim to be. Such as this year's largest discovered breach of AU10TIX, which supplies age verification to companies like TikTok, X, Uber, LinkedIn, Paypal, and many others.
As it stands, this bill is far too broad in its wording and enforcement of its age-specific measures to be considered a safe piece of legislation. Which is why I urge the Senator to vote in opposition to this measure.
Vote NO on AB 1949.
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SB 976
Hello, my name is (INSERT NAME HERE) and I'm one of the Assembly member's constituents from (INSERT CITY HERE). I'm calling to urge the Assembly member to vote NO on SB 976, the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act. Although this bill has intent to protect the mental and emotional health of California's youth, the method this bill would intend to use could be counterproductive to that goal, or even endanger them further.
One of this bill's primary measures includes requiring verifiable parental consent to allow websites to display “addictive” feeds to minor users. However, the ways “verify” the identity and age of a responsible parent are often invasive and dangerous. Especially since these methods have proven repeatedly to be vulnerable to data breaches that can leak sensitive information to bad actors. Such as this year's largest discovered breach of AU10TIX, which supplies age verification to companies like TikTok, X, Uber, LinkedIn, Paypal, and many others. To determine if this is necessary at all would also require collecting even more data on minors and non-minors alike to determine who would even require these measures to be set in place. Especially when it would have control over someone's access to a website or application based on the time of day, as this bill would require in order to “reasonably determine” the user is not a minor.
The vagueness of this bill's text at all is dangerous as well. The broad-spectrum definition it gives of “addictive internet-based service or application” could cause an unintended censorship effect where minors and adults alike could be blocked from accessing information purely because some part of a website or application uses a “feed” which could arguably fit the bill's definition of “addictive”
With all of this in mind, I urge the Assembly member to vote in opposition of this measure to protect the privacy and safety of California's minors and adults alike.
Also worth to note,you Can also mention how costly these bills would be for Californias budget,it would be bad for their economy, which would be a great argument in this case.
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While it is good that KOSA is now dead in the House (for now) I would like to ask for people's attention on AB1949 and SB976, which could push for Age verification by showing your ID.
There was a third bill named AB3080 that had similar goals, but luckily it received revisions so it is no longer a threat or require ID verification to access websites. So it would be possible to get AB1949 and SB976 to be revised so they aren't dangerous anymore.
You can read the text for AB1949 right here
AB1949 doesn't explicitly ask for ID verification anymore, as it used to, due to a revision, but there is a provision stating if they deem a website "willfully disregards" the age of the user they will be deemed to have actual knowledge of the user's age.
This broad part could be left to abuse, which is why it needs to be revised before passing, in order to confirm ID verification is not required. FIND YOUR REPS HERE!
For AB1949, you can find your Senate representative with the link above as I said, and check to see if they're a member of the CA Senate Appropriations Committee. Then call them to tell them you oppose this bill. Try to add reasons you think this bill would negatively affect California financially because that's what this committee focuses on.
As for SB976, which you can read here
Its goal is to "keep kids off social medias and addictive feeds" But the concerning part is that "it would make it unlawful for the operator of an addictive internet-based service or application, as defined, to provide an addictive feed to a user, unless the operator does not have actual knowledge that the user is a minor; commencing January 1, 2027, has reasonably determined that the user is not a minor; or has obtained verifiable parental consent to provide an addictive feed to the user who is a minor."
How are you supposed to know that you have "verifiable parental consent" without ID and age verification of both parents and child?Even then, holding the ID of a minor feels pretty illegal given how sensitive how an info this is, in case of a data breach (which will happen) this would endanger kids even more, and no one in general want to give their ID to access a website or an app.
The bill would also make it unlawful for a website or app to send notifications to a minor according to a certain timeframe.
For SB976, find your Assembly representative using the link below and check to see if they're a member of the CA Assembly Appropriations Committee. Then call them to tell them you oppose this bill. https://apro.assembly.ca.gov/members
You can tell them how this is terrible for privacy, and the safety of children, and that it would be terrible for the economy of California, as they seem to focus on it. You can try sending faxes for either bills, but calling IS MUCH MORE efficient. https://faxzero.com/
Here is the time schedule, bills must be taken care before the end of August so it is a matter of time crunch:
You may use the following scripts for the respective bills, you can try to trim it if you deem it too long!
Might be worth a shot to contact Gavin Newsom (Californian governor) here to voice your concerns for these bills
This is also very important to keep track of, as most of websites and social medias (Twitter,Discord etc) and other apps originates from California,and not all of them will be able to afford to move state if those bills are enforced in their current form
Also here are the texts on their own form
AB 1949
Hello, my name is (INSERT NAME HERE) and I'm one of the Senator's constituents from (INSERT CITY HERE). I'm calling to urge the Senator to vote NO on AB 1949, the amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020.
While this bill's intent is to prevent the sharing and sale of minor's information under the age of 18, the method it would intend to do so by is written far too broadly for it to be safely and reasonably implemented.
While this bill retains a safer standard of the business requiring actual knowledge of a consumer being under the age of 18 to be held liable for the sharing or sale of personal information, its wording is still too broad to exclude a default usage of age verification by online businesses in order to protect themselves from liability. Taking measures such as age verification, age assurance, or other data collection and analysis to determine the age of users.
Even though measures like this have been proven to be vulnerable to data breaches no matter how secure they proclaim to be.
Such as this year's largest discovered breach of AU10TIX, which supplies age verification to companies like TikTok, X, Uber, LinkedIn, Paypal, and many others.
As it stands, this bill is far too broad in its wording and enforcement of its age-specific measures to be considered a safe piece of legislation. Which is why I urge the Senator to vote in opposition to this measure.
Vote NO on AB 1949.
SB 976
Hello, my name is (INSERT NAME HERE) and I'm one of the Assembly member's constituents from (INSERT CITY HERE).
I'm calling to urge the Assembly member to vote NO on SB 976, the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act. Although this bill has intent to protect the mental and emotional health of California's youth, the method this bill would intend to use could be counterproductive to that goal, or even endanger them further.
One of this bill's primary measures includes requiring verifiable parental consent to allow websites to display “addictive” feeds to minor users.
However, the ways “verify” the identity and age of a responsible parent are often invasive and dangerous.
Especially since these methods have proven repeatedly to be vulnerable to data breaches that can leak sensitive information to bad actors. Such as this year's largest discovered breach of AU10TIX, which supplies age verification to companies like TikTok, X, Uber, LinkedIn, Paypal, and many others.
To determine if this is necessary at all would also require collecting even more data on minors and non-minors alike to determine who would even require these measures to be set in place.
Especially when it would have control over someone's access to a website or application based on the time of day, as this bill would require in order to “reasonably determine” the user is not a minor.
The vagueness of this bill's text at all is dangerous as well.
The broad-spectrum definition it gives of “addictive internet-based service or application” could cause an unintended censorship effect where minors and adults alike could be blocked from accessing information purely because some part of a website or application uses a “feed” which could arguably fit the bill's definition of “addictive”.
With all of this in mind, I urge the Assembly member to vote in opposition of this measure to protect the privacy and safety of California's minors and adults alike.
Vote NO on SB 976.
The bills are progerssing, please keep making noises about them and see this
https://www.tumblr.com/botgal/758357993015345152/california-internet-bills-status-892024
Both SB976 and AB1949 are now schedule for a final vote, as Californian Congress is in session from 26 to 31 August.
Find your reps here and tell them to vote no on these bills :
https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
Here you can contact the Californian Governor, Gavin Newsome, as it will be the last step before the bills are signed into law
https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
Calling is MUCH more efficient, but you can send faxes with fax zero as well. https://faxzero.com/
If you scroll up, you can find scripts to use to lay down good arguments,but please emphasize how bad this would be for California economy, as they are running low on funds.
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These are very likely to affect social medias/websites originating from California, which could create a global effect on the Internet.
As of right now, here's the status of the three primary internet bills of note.
AB 3080, age verification for nsfw websites. Currently has been improved its terms so that metadata and other methods to better filtering as parental controls is allowed as an option rather than always age verification via ID and credit card transactions. However, it's best to still nip this one in the bud if possible. So I'd still recommend messaging your reps about it.
This bill went through second reading, but has been re-referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The hearing is scheduled for August 12th. You can find your members in the link below. So best to call them before that date if they're a part of the committee.
AB 1949, surrounding collecting personal data of those less than 18 years of age with risks of age verification due to broad language, has been sent to the Senate Suspense File and is awaiting the vote. There's no set date on the Senate website for it, but the Assembly Suspense date is listed as August 15th, so best assumption for now is that it will be on the same day. So call your Senate reps for these as well if they're a part of the Appropriations Committee (see the link above).
Lastly, SB 976, regarding age restricting "addictive" algorithms and time restricting access to social media platforms for individuals under 18. Very likely leading to age verification. Has been placed on the Assembly Suspense file for August 15th. If you have tim please call your Assembly member if they're a part of the Appropriations committee as listed below.
Thank you again for taking your time to voice your opinions and help keep our internet safe.
While it is good that KOSA is now dead in the House (for now) I would like to ask for people's attention on AB1949 and SB976, which could push for Age verification by showing your ID.
There was a third bill named AB3080 that had similar goals, but luckily it received revisions so it is no longer a threat or require ID verification to access websites. So it would be possible to get AB1949 and SB976 to be revised so they aren't dangerous anymore.
You can read the text for AB1949 right here
AB1949 doesn't explicitly ask for ID verification anymore, as it used to, due to a revision, but there is a provision stating if they deem a website "willfully disregards" the age of the user they will be deemed to have actual knowledge of the user's age.
This broad part could be left to abuse, which is why it needs to be revised before passing, in order to confirm ID verification is not required. FIND YOUR REPS HERE!
For AB1949, you can find your Senate representative with the link above as I said, and check to see if they're a member of the CA Senate Appropriations Committee. Then call them to tell them you oppose this bill. Try to add reasons you think this bill would negatively affect California financially because that's what this committee focuses on.
As for SB976, which you can read here
Its goal is to "keep kids off social medias and addictive feeds" But the concerning part is that "it would make it unlawful for the operator of an addictive internet-based service or application, as defined, to provide an addictive feed to a user, unless the operator does not have actual knowledge that the user is a minor; commencing January 1, 2027, has reasonably determined that the user is not a minor; or has obtained verifiable parental consent to provide an addictive feed to the user who is a minor."
How are you supposed to know that you have "verifiable parental consent" without ID and age verification of both parents and child?Even then, holding the ID of a minor feels pretty illegal given how sensitive how an info this is, in case of a data breach (which will happen) this would endanger kids even more, and no one in general want to give their ID to access a website or an app.
The bill would also make it unlawful for a website or app to send notifications to a minor according to a certain timeframe.
For SB976, find your Assembly representative using the link below and check to see if they're a member of the CA Assembly Appropriations Committee. Then call them to tell them you oppose this bill. https://apro.assembly.ca.gov/members
You can tell them how this is terrible for privacy, and the safety of children, and that it would be terrible for the economy of California, as they seem to focus on it. You can try sending faxes for either bills, but calling IS MUCH MORE efficient. https://faxzero.com/
Here is the time schedule, bills must be taken care before the end of August so it is a matter of time crunch:
You may use the following scripts for the respective bills, you can try to trim it if you deem it too long!
Might be worth a shot to contact Gavin Newsom (Californian governor) here to voice your concerns for these bills
This is also very important to keep track of, as most of websites and social medias (Twitter,Discord etc) and other apps originates from California,and not all of them will be able to afford to move state if those bills are enforced in their current form
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