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The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)

submitted 1 year ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act).

If you're in the US, https://www.stopkosa.com/ makes it easy to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose KOSA.

"A new bill called the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, is sailing towards passage in the Senate with bipartisa>n support. Among other things, this bill would give the attorney general of every state, including red states, the right to sue Internet platforms if they allow any content that is deemed harmful to minors. This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don't even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people.

The right wing Heritage Foundation has already stated publicly that the GOP will use this provision to remove any discussions of trans or queer lives from the Internet. They're salivating over the prospect.

And yep, I did say this bill has bipartisan support. Many Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. And President Joe Biden has urged lawmakers to pass this bill in the strongest possible terms."

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[–] anon232@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The internet is about to move to the rest of the world if this passes, no one will host a web server in the US after this.

[–] gsa4555@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The problem is where? The EU is trying to apply similar censorship via the DSA, Russia we all know is LGBTphobic and not truly for free speech, Canada is a joke, and China is lol. Not even sure if Japan is viable.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure tech company's could just stick their servers in the Virgin Islands or some other fucking tax haven.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

How is the DSA in any way similar to this?

[–] LunarticBot@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Japan has terrible international peering.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In what way is Canada a joke? Like, I'm not saying it isn't, but our online freedom is pretty good. We don't actually have a state sponsored censorship campaign, VPNs are legal, TOR is legal, all we legislate is that you aren't inciting violence or calling for the extermination of a protected group of people or doing shady dark web shit. Pretty much everything else is good to go.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the way that there are MAGAs up north. Like, come on bois, there's no need for that shit.

[–] kennismigrant@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

There's some wisdom in the old soviet anecdote

There's freedom of speech in the USSR: In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan," and you will not be punished. Equally, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan," and you will not be punished.

The Internet is still mostly connected, the law enforcement is not as much. Many businesses exist only because of this. You are free to host (produce, store, distribute) your content where it is legal and access it from where it is not. Access to foreign resources may eventually be outlawed or the access itself restricted. This is already the case in EU, Russia, China, etc. - but for now Internet is mostly connected.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It is why more need to support the decentralized movement as then there is not centralized group you can choke to get your draconian ways.