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The legislation would also prohibit cellphone use during the school day.
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In the light of recent news of this, here is yet another golden example of how useless digital age verification is.
These bad internet bills won't "protect kids" if children can get pass it anyways.
Don't limit this to the UK and Brazil either. Any country's government (US, Canada, Australia, Italy, etc) that has is doing these digital age verification/social media ban bills (KOSA, Screen Act, KOSMA , Bill S-209 etc) needs to be repelled.
KOSMA is moving again!
Hello Everyone. Since it seems like my eternal nightmare with these internet bills will never end, I wanted to bring something to our attention.
KOSMA is moving once more!
I've seen it slowly picking up co-sponsors these past few weeks and since it passed out of committee in February it has already cleared a hurdle. However, June 30th it was properly placed on the Senate calendar. I'm not sure how significant this might be, according to the senate 75% of bills on the calendar go no farther than that, but because Democrats don't seem to understand how badly these bills affect us as there is no real opposition to it. Please, spread the news because this bill will encourage age-gating.
The senate business calendar, its is order# 108: https://www.senate.gov/ (click on senate calendar)
An article about it: https://www.theverge.com/news/607603/kids-off-social-media-act-bill-child-safety#comments
The bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/278
Strangely enough this bill doesn't demand age-verification, just that websites collect data to guess the users age. That is already terrible but the law is so vague that it can apply to most sites that have ads and provide a community forum for user-generated content. So a massive chunk of the internet. No idea if it can hold up in court but I don't want to risk it.
Fight For the Future - KOSA Billboard
Spreed the word
We’ve got a message for Democratic lawmakers who co-sponsor censorship bills and collaborate with Trump’s fascist agenda: we won’t let you rest until you stop doing their dirty work. Today, a billboard truck is circling Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal’s office in downtown Hartford, calling him out for reintroducing censorship bill KOSA1 and betraying his queer and trans constituents— and we paid for it. It wasn’t in our budget, but someone had to draw a line in the sand this Pride Month, and we couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Can you help cover the $1,925 it cost to demand Dems like Blumenthal stop helping Trump carry out his queerphobic censorship fantasies?
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would give Trump’s FTC full power to censor online free speech and block young people from accessing life-saving information and community online.2 It’s a censorship bill couched in “child safety” that proponents and enforcers like Senator Marsha Blackburn,3 Elon Musk,4 and FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson5 would proudly use to “fight back against the trans agenda” and any topic they don’t approve of. Abortion care access, political speech, and LGBTQ+ content are all on the line.
Blumenthal’s cooperation with this ghoulish bill, especially during Trump’s escalating crackdowns on marginalized communities, is unconscionable. We’ve tried everything: hundreds of thousands of young people have sent letters to Congress,2 hundreds more parents of trans kids penned a letter begging lawmakers not to pass this dangerous bill,6 we’ve written op-eds,7 met with offices, and still, Blumenthal is choosing the wrong side of history. So we took it to Blumenthal's doorstep and made him face the reality of his choices head-on.
Matthew Wallace / The Missing Lens
Will you rush a donation to get this billboard covered and help us gear up for yet another fight against this dangerous bill? Even $5 makes a huge difference for our small, queer women-led org. We’ve beaten KOSA before, and it’s more important than ever that we do it again. And this time we’re going in for the kill.
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Beyond funds, we need your voice in this fight. If you haven’t already, call and write your lawmakers to Stop KOSA2 and join our urgent actions Signal chat to stay updated on ways to help.8
Thanks for all you do,
Footnotes:
Press Release: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-06-16-billboard-truck-decries-senator-blumenthals-hypocritical-reintroduction-of-kosa-an-lgbtq-censorship-bill/
Stop KOSA: https://www.stopkosa.com/
NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/senator-appears-suggest-bipartisan-bill-will-censor-transgender-conten-rcna103479
Blackburn, Blumenthal Statement on New ‘X’ Negotiated KOSA Text: https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2024/12/issues/technology/blackburn-blumenthal-statement-on-new-x-negotiated-kosa-text
Incoming FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson wants to throw trans people under the bus. KOSA would help him do that: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-12-11-incoming-ftc-chair-andrew-ferguson-wants-to-throw-trans-people-under-the-bus-kosa-would-help-him-do-that/
Trans Parents Letter: https://www.transparentsletter.com/
Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth
Urgent Actions Signal Chat: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/signal
there's a lot that has been going on, but here's this recent thing. obviously, we need to call our reps (and senators, if possible), so that none of these are signed into law, now that it's a lot more possible to bring these into law.
even if it's too much right now, but we need to stop these, if no one is going to. we can't rely on the government anymore (as if we should in the first place), and we need to lift ourselves up in order to make change.
...and yes, these people are classifying queer people as "sex perverts." you haven't read anything wrong.
Look Outside Dan and Sam would talk about the most unknown video games know, to man, I just know it
How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has vetoed AB 105 , the state age-verification bill that passed the Wisconsin legislature in early March, d
rare anti age verification win!
