‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship.::Washington, D.C. - This week, a bipartisan cohort of US Senators unveiled a new version of the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that aims to impose various restrictions and requirements on tech

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    9 months ago

    For my taste, framing CCC as a “Washington/Brussels” project is a far too close to what Russian smearbots do (link everything unpopular back to their current hate objects, i.e. foster resentment against the EU, liberals, etc.).

    It looks very much like the CCC is an international organization funded and controlled by the far right.

    Their website states:

    Which countries is CCC active in?

    The CCC works currently with tens of thousands of consumers and partner organizations in North America, Europe, South America, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and many more.

    Their colorful funding history:

    Big Tobacco and right-wing US billionaires funding anti-regulation hardliners in the EU