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KOSA bill

Why I cannot trust the US gov anymore [KOSA bill]

Please spread this, I'm scared, I'm 14 and I live US.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1409

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/28/fan-fiction-writers-rally-fandoms-against-kosa-the-bill-purporting-to-protect-kids-online/

https://warrior-cats-ultimate-edition-wcue.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000184896

https://npc-wcue.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000106792

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

https://www.newsreports.com/defending-cyberspace-the-battle-against-kosa/

Notes: I don't want the US gov fucking tracking me everywhere. My life is stressful enough. I've got enough worries. Help. Please protest, spread this and contact the senate to target this bill. Strike this bill down.

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  • They're already tracking you. We are all on a watch list. I'm sorry.

    • But my parents would know about this. They're strongly anti-communist.

      • Oh sorry, I glossed over this post, as your links didn't work, it was very late at night, and I was drunk.

        But yes, I see now that you're a minor, and the US is planning on enforcing censorship on free thinking minors. This is bad. This is very bad. And I will join you in urging our American comrades to try to do something about this.

      • Well, you're already being tracked through many forms as the other user pointed out. But if your worry is your parents, on a cursory glance I see nothing that would require notifying your them for engaging with "harmful" content. It mostly places the burdens on the platforms to either ban that content or you, as notifying every single child on the internet seems like a huge hassle. I could be wrong though. (Please fix your links if you can)

        Now if you want some advice, you can always get some free VPN like protonVPN to a foreign country and generally avoid attaching your real life identity to your "harmful" online activities. Tor is also pretty nice too, I guess. Nothing is really 100% "safe" and you're always at some risk, but this doesn't seem like the end of the world for your individual case.

        The bill is still the usual 4-letter acronym rubbish the USA has been peddling to wreck the internet since it went mainstream. Somebody should revoke their internet license, "Reverse Great Firewall" style.

    • The NSA considers readers of the Linux Journal as extremists. 🤡

  • oh I remember looking at this bill and being mildly horrified. it's going to destroy online queer communities by requiring them to collect ID data. I think if this passes, hexbear (which operates from the US if I'm not mistaken) will be exposed to law enforcement issues because doxxing ourselves to the website is a non-starter.

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