REDALERT: The Senate is likely to vote on the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) this week. This internet censorship bill will impact everyone who uses social media. Tell your representatives to vote no today. #THREAD https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill
We heard from thousands of young people who don’t support KOSA: it will censor the internet but won't help them. Here's how KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors
We’ve analyzed KOSA at length. Our analysis on KOSA’s potential harmful consequences is based on our history of watching internet regulations harm marginalized communities and voices. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth
“Paradoxically, what KOSA does is it removes the ability for teens and children to find information when they are experiencing the very sort of health problems and other problems that KOSA is trying to address,” EFF’s Aaron Mackey told NPR. https://www.npr.org/2024/02/18/1232301930/how-tech-companies-would-be-affected-by-the-kids-online-safety-act
KOSA would let government decide what information can be shared online, would still require websites, apps & platforms to filter & block legal speech, and probably would still result in age verification requirements, EFF’s Jason Kelley told The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24073878/kids-online-safety-act-new-senate-support
We must recognize and fight legislation like KOSA that’s pushing us to cede our power, privacy, and control over our health care and free expression, EFF’s Erica Portnoy writes in The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/voices/erica-portnoy-upholding-privacy
“KOSA is ambiguous enough that different administrations could censor content all along the political spectrum, from guns to vaccines to transgender issues to abortions,” EFF’s
India McKinney told The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/23/24204702/kosa-quick-vote-senate-floor-schumer-blumenthal-blackburn
@eff To have privacy, information you want to have private should not leave you. As soon as in other person's hands. It's their free speech to publish it. Good encryption is the way. Not more censorship.
@eff the thing with online age verification is, that it's almost always designed as online identification and almost never intended to protect children.