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Help tell the Senate: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help Kids (act.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by MiscreantMouse@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship.

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[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

As much as there are valid concerns to what sort of content kids are accessing on the internet, a government that is actively persecuting LGBTQ people and women seeking abortion cannot be trusted with IDs for every website and post on the internet.