#stop kosa

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https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:("17-59"))

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"Why is KOSA so bad? We shouldn't let kids on the Internet anyway"

Lots of people have this response to KOSA and I can understand where they're coming from. I'm very aware how crazy the Internet can get, and I worry sometimes about what kids could be getting into online. It's no wonder that people see this stuff as a good thing. Protecting kids and keeping them from getting into trouble online is NOT the problem here. It's HOW they're trying to do it. KOSA would create a world where you have two choices: 1. Give social media your personal info, your face, ID, or anything else that you SHOULDN'T put on the Internet 2. Be either locked out of your account OR being given a restricted, censored Internet. If you are queer, trans, a person who gets harassed online, or if you're in any other situation where anonymity could be keeping you safe, then THIS IS DANGEROUS. If you have people online harassing you, threatening you, your anonymity PREVENTS those people from being able to find you. If your ID/face is in a hackable database, that info can be sold to dangerous people. And I don't think people talk enough about how this can be dangerous to minors as well. For one, all minors would have to give images of their face to companies. Not only that, but a lot of teens are in situations (like abuse, low income, etc.) where they have nowhere else to go if they want to find support, friends, or info that could help them through struggles or very well save their LIVES. THOSE teens would have to choose between putting THEIR personal info online, or losing access to their friends or support forums. But if you want to keep that privacy and safety, the only other option would be to have a restricted, censored Internet. Whether or not you're an adult. You could be locked out of accounts that you need for work, or that you need to communicate with people. Yes, kids get into trouble online. I have heard very scary stories of how crazy the Internet can be. But I feel like we can come up with better solutions that don't put everyone (kids and adults) in more risk.

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Senate Commerce is eyeing July 29 for the big kids and AI markup, with things like KOSA included, not the kids act

“Senate Commerce is eyeing July 29 for the big kids and AI markup.

The date isn’t finalized but the session is likely to include KOSA, Cruz priorities like his chatbots bill and potentially even measures on “catastrophic risk.”

This is not talking about the kids act, which is a separate thing from this, but either way, calling your representatives to tell them to stop the kids act and Kosa are very important

Ben Brody (@BenBrodyDC) on X

NEW: Senate Commerce is eyeing July 29 for the big kids and AI markup. The date isn’t finalized but the session is likely to include KOSA, C

call em

Oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act (UPDATED 6/29) - PASSED HOUSE ⭑ 5 Calls

Updates June 29, 2026: By a vote of 267-117, the House has passed H.R. 7757, the KIDS Act. The bill now moves to the Senate, though the Sen

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look, even if hypothetically I was willing to scan my face and give a video of me to a social media company's shady unnamed third party data processor to do [God] knows what with in order to prove my adulthood...

chances are I can't. my body is that of a disabled Asian woman.

the facial markers of childhood on a white person- prominent monolid eyes, round faces without prominent cheekbones, clear, smooth skin devoid of wrinkles, lack of facial hair- are traits that many adults of Asian descent, many in their fifties and sixties even, have to an extent that several of my (adult, mind you) relatives and friends have been declared to be in their teens, or even to be preteens or 8-year-olds, by an algorithm that associated those features with childhood rather than ethnicity and lineage.

I can usually figure out how to look directly at a camera, if I try hard enough. but from what I've seen of Roblox's face verification process, it also needs you to move your eyes slowly from left to right so it can determine you're using live footage of a real person.

simple, right? wrong. I can't do that. I can kind of move my eyes a short distance(and it always hurts like hell, especially when I do it consciously), and I can change what part of my vision I'm paying attention to, but otherwise my only way to change what I'm looking at is to turn my entire head. and it clearly doesn't accept head-turning as "looking from left to right".

I don't have any other facial differences that might mess with the algorithm recognizing my face as a face- and that's a related problem that's already been documented by numerous people and organizations like Face Equality International.

I just can't follow the instructions, because it wants me to do something I can't do and expects that all adult humans can move their eyes consciously, because ha ha who couldn't do that if they're using a computer in the first place? it's not like disabled people might ever have friends or want to be on social media!

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