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HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids”

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The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids”

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HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that allows for a wide range of government penalties for online speech, could soon be passed by Congress. If that happens, the access we have to information may be forever changed. KOSA will make state prosecutors and federal bureaucrats the final arbiters...
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    Not the US government, republicans and one random house dem that seems to hate technology.

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      The bill has 21 Democrats as cosponsors (22 Republicans). Source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1409/cosponsors

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        oMg boTh sIdeS aRe nOt tHe sAmE… except for when it comes to eroding freedoms

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      Not the US government, republicans and one random house dem that seems to hate technology.

      Whose the Dem?

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        Blumenthal, of course.

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          What about the other 20?

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          Why do say of course?

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            He’s always the one giving a ‘bipartisan’ veneer to these awful bills. Here’s one trying to end encryption, which he co-sponsored with Lindsey Graham

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              WTF then he isn’t a Democrat if he co authoring bills with Graham.

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