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emily draven 🐦‍⬛🏳️‍⚧️
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fiction writer • roommate to 3 cats with surprisingly rich interior lives • parmesan cheese enthusiast • she/her recent stories: hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp trans & nonbinary reading list
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here’s a little more context as well. tennessee senator marsha blackburn introduced KOSA and explicitly said its intent is to “protect minors from the transgender in society.” almost 2 dozen GOP attorneys general said they’d like to use it to block internet content on abortion or birth control.

Analysis | Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads
Analysis | Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads

Lawmakers are trying to fast-track legislation but face a dwindling window.

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The part that red flags all of this the hardest is that - with that exact wording - they smile and pretend to serve the people. They hate most of the people.

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Anytime someone mentions "protecting kids" online, I instantly ignore them and assume the opposite is the proper moral stance. Somehow "protecting kids" always amounts to some fascist bullshit

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two snips from that EFF article. they know we don’t want KOSA, they know it’s poison, they know have to sneak it in. take a look and tell me how any of this protects kids. help stop it now.

Dangers for Everyone, Especially Young People
One of the key concerns with KOSA has been its potential to harm the very population it aims to protect-young people. KOSA's broad censorship requirements would limit minors' access to critical information and resources, including educational content, social support groups, and other forms of legitimate speech.
This version does not alleviate that concern.
For example, this version of KOSA could still:
• Suppress search results for young people seeking sexual health and reproductive rights information;
• Block content relevant to the history of oppressed groups, such as the history of slavery in the U.S;
Stifle youth activists across the political spectrum by preventing them from connecting and advocating on their platforms; and
• Block young people seeking help for mental health or addiction problems from accessing resources and support.
Lawmakers know this bill is controversial.
Some of its proponents have recently taken steps to attach KOSA as an amendment to the five-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, the last "must-pass" legislation until the fall. This would effectively bypass public discussion of the House version. Just last month Congress attached another contentious, potentially unconstitutional bill to unrelated legislation, by including a bill banning TikTok inside of a foreign aid package. Legislation of this magnitude deserves to pass —or fail-on its own merits.
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emily draven 🐦‍⬛🏳️‍⚧️
@threnody.bsky.social
fiction writer • roommate to 3 cats with surprisingly rich interior lives • parmesan cheese enthusiast • she/her recent stories: hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp trans & nonbinary reading list
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