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🚨VERY IMPORTANT KOSA UPDATE🚨

After Tuesday's Judiciary hearing, Blumenthal and Hawley promised to try their best to bring KOSA to the floor. Cantwell has promised to sneak KOSA to the floor on a voice vote, like with what Hawley tried with the Restrict Act this past spring if you remember. We just need ONE senator to speak out. So right now, DON'T PANIC, SPEAK OUT.

As always, you can use https://www.badinternetbills.com/ to easily place your calls to everyone influential with a call script.

If you don't want to use that site

<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit>.

Call Congress to Stop KOSA

The Senate may have a simple voice vote in the next week to move the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) quickly through the legislature, without

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Tim Wu Asks Why Congress Keeps Failing To Protect Kids Online. The Answer Is That He’s Asking The Wrong Question

While I often disagree with Tim Wu, I like and respect him, and always find it interesting to know what he has to say. Wu was also one of th

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U.S. Must Reject This Bill: It Won't Protect Kids, Just Censor LGBT+ People

The so-called Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is a thinly-veiled attempt to censor LGBT+ lives. Sign now to make sure it doesn't become law!

We are targeting these senators:

Wyden [phone]

Markey [phone]

Welch [phone]

Booker [phone]

Padilla [phone]

Ossoff [phone]

Tester [phone]

Civil rights and free speech groups will be pushing to stop the legislation. But nothing matters like constituents calls — especially as we approach an election year.

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<https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1722985460056670401?s=46>

<https://twitter.com/mikestabile/status/1723018810976788911>

Remember, if we don't do anything now, it could be pushed for a floor vote without hesitation, it could be close to passing by the end of the year!!

Please stay calm and share, and try to call If you are able. ❤️

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STOP THE UK ONLINE SAFETY BILL | Linktree

CITIZENS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY IS UNDER ATTACK

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🚨🚨🚨DANGEROUS INTERNET CENSORSHIP/SURVEILLANCE BILLS WILL NUKE THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT🚨🚨🚨

WE WILL BE SPIED ON DUE TO NO ENCRYPTION

LGBTQ CONTENT WILL BE WIPED FROM THE INTERNET

SEX WORKERS WILL BE CRIMINALIZED

The EARN IT Act of 2023 threatens to undermine online encryption by punishing companies that provide encryption services. And by repeating the same mistakes as a previous bill called SESTA/FOSTA, it would lead to widespread Internet censorship and crackdowns on marginalized communities. When EARN IT was previously introduced in 2020 and 2022, it was shelved in the face of overwhelming public outcry and opposition from human rights groups. Now, lawmakers are introducing EARN IT for a third time, hoping to pass it and break the internet while we’re distracted.

TELL CONGRESS TO STOP THE EARN IT ACT

Contact your lawmakers now to demand them to reject the dangerous EARN IT Act and protect your free speech and security online

KOSA claims to make kids safer, but it’s really a dangerous censorship bill that would give the government unprecedented control over the internet. This would put youth in danger by preventing them from accessing potentially life-saving resources. Lawmakers concerned about online safety should reject KOSA and instead work to protect all internet users from abusive tech companies by passing a Federal data privacy law.

Stop KOSA

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

Lawmakers claim the RESTRICT Act addresses privacy and security concerns around TikTok. But this is about so much more than just TikTok. RESTRICT gives Biden (and all future presidents!) extraordinary new powers to ban Americans from using entire apps simply by claiming they pose a “threat to national security,” outside of any democratic process. Politicians are pushing this bill to show they’re “tough on China”—but instead of protecting us, this law would lead to an internet censored by the president.

TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE RESTRICT ACT

This is about so much more than TikTok.

Regressive states across the country are taking away teenagers’ online rights. It started in Utah with two laws that create a mandated social media “bedtime” and give parents complete control over their kids’ accounts, messages, and passwords. Utah lawmakers claim their curfew-and-control bills help children, but these bills actually make children less safe by increasing state and parental surveillance and restricting access to community. To make matters worse, legislation like this is spreading. Arkansas has passed a copycat bill. Louisiana and Texas are trying to follow Utah’s lead, and it’s been introduced federally in Congress.

Stop silencing young people. No more social media bans.

Utah: the town in Footloose

STOP CSAM wouldn’t actually stop CSAM. Instead, it would make CSAM cases harder to prosecute—like SESTA/FOSTA before it—while reducing privacy protections in ways that would harm vulnerable people. Like EARN IT, STOP CSAM undermines end-to-end encryption, a technology that’s vital for LGBTQ+ youth, survivors of interpersonal violence and stalking, abortion seekers and providers, and activists. Weakening E2EE as a means to funnel more information to law enforcement also sets an alarming precedent for government surveillance. All of us, including children, need to be able to communicate in the digital age without our conversations being spied on.

Defend encryption: SAY NO to STOP CSAM

New legislation introduced in Congress would undermine secure encryption and threaten our free speech online.

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It's a hurricane of bad internet legislation. EARN IT, KOSA, STOP CSAM and RESTRICT all pretend that they'd help kids… but they would actual

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I hate to pester you over something you might already know, but a bunch of organizations that are rooting for KOSA and EARN-IT, and all those other awful bills are on their way to DC this weekend. We need everyone to get on the phones with their reps and senators NOW!!!!

right on it!!!

i cannot call state reps about it, since i do not live in the states, but if you are able to please please do!!

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Resources For Learning about KOSA

Call Script on Page 2! Resources For Learning about KOSA 2023: KOSA bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1

Earn it Act Call Script

Scroll down for Call Script For Democrat Senator For Republican Senator For Chuck Schumer [phone] connects you to your congress repr

Remember! Be calm and polite to the person on the other end of the line, Good luck everyone!

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It's a hurricane of bad internet legislation. EARN IT, KOSA, STOP CSAM and RESTRICT all pretend that they'd help kids… but they would actual

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CONSEQUENCES OF THE EARN IT ACT

It will be functionally illegal to discuss sexual and GRSM issues

Opens the door to law enforcement monitoring Internet traffic, which means that more moderation will be legally enforced in the future, including censoring of other religions, ethnic groups, or speech against the EARN IT committee and its affiliated parties

US based companies such as Google may be forced to remove GRSM and other non-harmful sexual content from their search engine thus decreasing visibility by a significant amount

YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, will also be forced to remove or terminate existing channels resulting in many well-known content creators being forced to cancel uploading entirely

A brief example would be Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss by Vivienne Medrano and Spindlehorse.

Simply mentioning or referencing any form of "sexual" content, no matter how tame, will be risking termination à la Disney

Many subreddits, from r/lgbt to r/femboy, and r/thelastofus to r/undertale, will be censored or removed completely under grounds of featuring GRSM characters

WhatsApp, owned by Meta, an American company, will now be forced to disable end-to-end encryption or backdoor communications for law enforcement.

Discord will be forced to remove NSFW channel functionality and messages will be scanned for illegal material.

Other non-social-media websites, such as CNN will be prevented from reporting on sexual abuse cases

And to top it all off, perhaps the most significant change will be the complete whitewashing of Wikipedia, which will be forced to remove many wiki pages of content documenting genuine SA case studies, information on safe sex, the biology of contraception and possibly even the anatomy of the human reproductive system.

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132 Rights Groups Warn EARN IT Act Threatens Online Privacy and Free Speech

"We support curbing the scourge of child exploitation online. However, EARN IT will instead make it harder for law enforcement to protect ch