The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It
The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It
The Senate just passed a bill that will let the federal and state governments investigate and sue websites that they claim cause kids mental distress. It’s a terrible idea to let politicians and bureaucrats decide what people should read and view online, but the Senate passed KOSA on a 91-3 vote....
It passed 91-3. Our representatives are ignorant dinosaurs who don’t understand the internet or how it works. I already contacted both my senators. I plan to contact my house members before they make this abomination into a law. I encourage everyone to do the same.
142They may not know how the interet works but they know exactly how manufactured hysteria works. Whenever the government says "Think of the children", they're trying to fool and exploit you. They don't give a fuck about your children. Your children can't vote.
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"'Protect kids,' please."
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When is it next being acted on? I'd like to actually mail a physical letter explaining my concerns. Maybe they'd like it since they're dinosaurs.
15Send it certified with signature required, it costs around $4 but they'll really like that.
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And of the 3 who voted against it, 2 were Republican and 1 was a Democrat.
7Start voting in judges that believe in freedom at the local and state levels.
The way things are, only the courts can decide.
6😍US needs more people like you
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Make sure your router has built-in VPN support folks. That way when some shit like this does eventually pass all your traffic can flow over the VPN for your entire network.
70This law seems to be aimed at taking down hosted content though, so you can connect over your VPN but the sites won't be there to connect to, unless they move their hosting out of the USA. And even that might not be enough to protect US companies from being forced to take the content down if they want to survive.
61I’ve had this setup and would recommend but since I’ve switched from OpenVPN to Wiregaurd I’m getting constantly hit by cloud flare verification s and captchas… and my IP hasn’t changed once since. Wondering if that’s just the environment now or specific to my protocol change. Any readers’ experiences?
13Cloudfare sees a lot of traffic from a single ip and performs the checks you’re seeing to make sure it’s not malicious. Google will do the same, as will a number of other services.
It’s the nature of a shared vpn service.
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Make sure to own your router, I’d say. Set you ISP router to modem mode and use OpnSense on a APU as router where you have full control. You can filter ads with adGuard and you can use wireGuard and openVPN to connect to a VPN provider as well as setting up an endpoint so you can protect yourself even on the go and even on locked up systems like iOS.
Except, Apple does let some of their own packages not go through VPN, which is very shady, tho.
11If you're savy then install open wrt on it. If you want expert mode, then install pfsense on an old PC/laptop. If you want pucker factor, then install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it's ip from the VM.
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aghhhhh why cant politics be boring again I just want to exist
64When did you ever think politics was boring?
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The US is a hostile place for online hosting. All small and medium businesses should move their operations out of the US. I did years ago, never looked back. Only the big ones with lobbiests will remain, just as our dear lord and saviour capitalism intended.
45There's a bunch of billionaires who own private small to medium businesses that donate heavily to the RNC. The owners of companies like Uline, Menards, and other B2B companies that you've probably never heard of.
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Link to the bill here: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/senate-amendment/3021/text
28The members of Congress who vote for this bill should remember—they do not, and will not, control who will be in charge of punishing bad internet speech. The Federal Trade Commission, majority-controlled by the President’s party, will be able to decide what kind of content “harms” minors, then investigate or file lawsuits against websites that host that content.
Oh, fuck. I get the Republicans voting for it, but what the fuck is wrong with the Democrats? Bernie voted yes on this thing!
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22Its almost as if even the better party of the two still has its own agenda that its trying to fulfill.
One that isn't necessarily in our best interests.
Of course there is a worse side of the coin but you gotta love how any time it is something that really fucks the people good (especially about privacy) they all suddenly magically agree and can pass it in moments.
The fact that even the most progressive one out of the bunch who's supposed to be the way forward and should've had that nomination last time even voted yes on it should jolt everyone awake. But it will not.
We were warned about a two party system.
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Can someone tl;Dr the bill? I can't open the article at work.
12If you want to help stop this bill contact your lawmakers here.
4Stop it now. Harness the Orb powers before it's too late. They wish to destroy the Fediverse, and that's their own powerful wish. GNU+Linux are very similar, too.
2What exactly is the benchmark for triggering an investigation? Child Gambling or just cartoons which say the ungodly word "taint"?
Idk, depending on the context I might support this bill. If you need to have real quantifiable evidence of harm done to children then you should expect the authorities to come in and clean it up.
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