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A perfectly normal warning on Instagram. KOSA is going to be perfectly fine... 🔥🔥🐶☕🔥🔥 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

We beat KOSA before, we can beat it again. Contacting your reps matters. Voting matters, especially in primaries and locals. So does being active politically in other ways.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with American stuff, what is KOSA?

[–] Astronautical@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the "Kids Online Safety Act". Basically it's using the old "think of the children!" move, but in reality conservatives are trying to push anything queer back into the dark.

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Think of the children! Let us scan all of your images, files and messages! For the sake of children of course! Nothing suspicious here...

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just like we beat them trying to take net neutrality, right?

[–] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have to pay comcast extra to stream netflix? No? Net neutrality still exists.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a bad take. The public wasn't the one that would need to pay Comcast, they would have charged Netflix.

[–] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

A total breakdown in net neutrality could have very well had that result.