Like all bills with "kids" or "children" in the name, it doesn't have anything to do with kids and everything to do with violating our rights.
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Yup. Same goes for anything with safety, privacy, or family in the name.
I believe the way it’s presented makes it difficult to vote against—you don’t want to be labeled as someone who is enabling the pedos.
Seems like most legislation (in American in the past 40 or so years) is labeled to sound like a good thing, then you read it and it’s the exact opposite of what it pretends to be
It's named as attack ad bait. "So-and-so voted against the Kids Online Safety Act" sounds bad to the uninformed voter, and there are a lot of uninformed voters.
PATRIOT act, anyone?
That's how these acts are labeled to trick voters like you and me, but thankfully in a representative democracy we have highly trained elected officials looking out for our values and reading the fine print so they don't get caught by these silly simple title traps. Right?
On why KOSA is an outrageous censorship bill that puts the power to control what you see online in the hands of dangerous people: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/kosa-internet-censorship-bill-just-passed-senate-its-our-last-chance-stop-it
On why KOSA is harmful to queer people, particularly trans youth: https://www.them.us/story/kids-online-safety-act-kosa-youth-lgbtq-content
On Marsha Blackburn's anti-trans intentions and what she feels KOSA should protect kids from: https://www.them.us/story/kosa-senator-blackburn-censor-trans-content (see also attached video clip)
On why it's not just queer people telling you KOSA is an absolute disaster: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-slams-senate-passage-of-kids-online-safety-act-urges-house-to-protect-free-speech
Proof that the kids this bill purports to protect don't want it to pass: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thou
And all but 3 members of the senate voted in approval: https://apnews.com/article/senate-child-online-safety-vote-f27c329679feb2d74787fc3887aa710f
America only has bipartisan support for hurting minorities.
Who were the 3 who voted against?
Rand Paul, Ron Wyden, and Mike Lee.
Bernie Sanders didn't vote against it?
There were only 3 noes, so no.
That's strange wonder why? Sanders normally wouldn't vote yes on something that would harm us.
Assuming good faith, perhaps he didn't fully understand the implications of the bill. You know how old people are with technology. Even good people can pass bad laws if they don't understand what they are legislating and the consequences of it.
I mean if you could save face and vote no on a bill you know is gonna pass, wouldn't you?
IMHO those pushing such things simply hate ND people. All the rest is side effects.
And the reason they hate ND people is because they blame them for the 90s and early 00s where a lot of their shady behaviors were constantly exposed. Because in their opinion ND people are the reason humanity comes up with cures to that plague, of varying efficiency.
As in - that measure of chaos which makes engineered social hierarchies fail. Destroying lives of ND people in their opinion means that there'll be less chaos and their power will be more solid. It's the same as why fascists hate LGBT - they want "normalcy", predictable drones who don't question orders.
This, of course, strongly correlates with harm to most marginalized groups, because you are more likely to be part of one of them if ND.
Particularly being autistic it's easier to care about real good and real evil instead of your group being associated with good and some other group with evil.
If this seems an unhinged rant, it is, but it's also true.
Any time a lawmaker says they are doing something "for the children" you are being played. They are always up to something sh*tty.
It's literally never about the children. When they say it's for the children it's because they're looking to lock in some crazy unpopular authoritarian bullshit and prevent any argument because who's going to argue against protecting children?
Children are legally basically slaves in the US (of their parents, or if they get married, of their spouse). They are almost never granted more power for themselves or more freedoms. Most "for the children" rhetoric tends to advocate for removing even more of their freedoms and power. It's really really sad.
Giving kids the right to vote would be a start in the right direction. No taxation without representation, and we have child actors and performers paying millions in taxes. They deserve representation. Maybe they'd change the laws so their parents (owners) weren't legally entitled to their money.
Giving kids the right to vote would be a start in the right direction.
I worry about that. More "Liberal" parents might care what their child believes, but hierarchy obsessed conservatives will tell their children who to vote for as they're "supposed" to always do what their parents say no matter what and without question.
Also just noticed, and love your username lol
Jesus fucking Christ we are still trying to roll this square up a fucking hill aren’t we?
Bill doesn’t pass? Try it again in a few months or years.
Rinse. Repeat.
I’m so fucking tired of the stupid shit my tax money is wasted on.
I think this vote proves that the easy flow of information is what those in power want to prevent. Can't make money with people being too well informed.
I feel gross agreeing with Rand fucking Paul about something.
Pretty sure he just votes against government doing anything. I doubt he's much of it.
That would be a consistent position of a principled Republican, almost extinct species.
Consistently douchey is still consistent, yes.
lol and it uses the DSM, which is intended to be heavily moderated by an expert's judgement every step of the way?
American "democracy" is a complete joke and the only reason it's been allowed to continue like this is because people are apathetic cowards.
Apathetic cowards are why it's a joke. It'd work a lot better with more participation.