IMPORTANT!! DO NOT SCROLL PAST!! Congress is attempting to blitz through almost 20 creepily invasive online age verification bills, including one that’ll devastate online free speech if passed
Age verification bills are designed to make ID checks mandatory for access to social media sites, browsing an App Store, etc. The identification measures are invasive and can include unreliable biometric scans (a scan of your face) and the uploading of your real-life ID. Imagine if your stored ID, which has your full name, address, and photo, were to be stolen in a data breach.
Read more about online Age Verification and the dangers to your privacy it poses here:
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive
Section 230 is the big one. It protects free speech because it prevents social platforms from being sued to oblivion because of content posted by its users. Basically it makes so social platforms and its users are not treated as the same entity. If Section 230 is repealed, many smaller platforms will not be able to pay off constant lawsuits, so they either will have to heavily restrict user content or face being taken down entirely.
Read more about what Section 230 is and why it must not be repealed here:
Learn how Section 230 protects online platforms from being treated as publishers, enabling the modern internet economy through broad immunit
Call and email your reps to tell them to vote NO on every single age verification bill and to NOT repeal Section 230 HERE!!!
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
Please please share this post everywhere! These bills will affect every internet user if passed. KOSA has shown up multiple times before but was defeated because people were loud. We can defeat it again and the rest of these bills.