cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183

Fight for the Future writes:

“The controversial and unconstitutional Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is officially dead in the House of Representatives. Reporting indicates that there was significant opposition to the bill within the Republican caucus, and it faced vocal opposition from prominent progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep Maxwell Frost (D-FL).”

Evan Greer:

"KOSA was a poorly written bill that would have made kids less safe. I am so proud of the LGBTQ youth and frontlines advocates who have led the opposition to this dangerous and misguided legislation. It’s good that this unconstitutional censorship bill is dead for now, but I am not breathing a sigh of relief. It’s infuriating that Congress wasted so much time and energy on a deeply flawed and controversial bill while failing to advance real measures to address the harms of Big Tech like privacy, antitrust and algorithmic justice legislation. "

Thanks to everybody who took action ove the last year to stop this bill!

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      Senators don’t give a fuck about their constituents.

      Maybe this is different in Rhode Island and Wyoming, but in Cali the Senators don’t even have offices to take your calls if you’re a pleb. It’s like trying to get customer service from Google.

      My US rep actually does constituent services and horror meets with non-rich constituents in person sometimes!

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        Our Alberta MLA, who was also the Minister of Transportation, would sit in his agricultural equipment dealership about 2 days a week and take meetings all day with anyone that wanted to come in and talk.

        He fixed a lot of people’s problems with a few phone calls from there.

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        You want hard mode?

        Try to get customer service from Steam, I’m almost convinced Valve doesn’t actually have a head quarters and Gabe Newell might be an ancient secret government AI hiding on various reels of magnetic tape in some dank basement at Area 51 that not even the President is allowed to apply to be the janitor of.

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    It’s a weird day when I’m happy the Republicans teamed up with progressives to stopped a bipartisan bill.

    I’m pretty irritated with Sherrod Brown on this one for voting for it in the senate.

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    2 months ago

    Reminder to always keep up the fight. Even when things seem inevitable, fights can be won. That goes both ways: don’t get complacent and don’t get despaired

    Get active, and get involved

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    Great news!

    But honestly, when something is voted down, there should be a cooldown period, where you couldn’t vote for it again.

    It both stops these people making a new bill every year, and at the same time, actually have the people writing the bill doing a good job.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    We thought SESTA was dead, and then they ambushed us with FOSTA, the Senate version which has fucked the internet ever since for sex workers, LGBT+ folk and people who like porn. So I expect they’re going to pull the same kind of thing, distracting opposition groups while passing it in secret.

    Ultimately, both parties want to kill the internet, or turn it into Cable TV, because the public dialoging in forums is dangerous to the ownership class.

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    Really? I heard the exact opposite, that it passed the Senate and is expected to breeze through the house.

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        Thank God, ya know after SOPA was defeated I thought they’d never try to ban the internet again…

        I was wrong

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    Normally one would expect stupid bills to pass the House, but fail in the Senate.

    Has this happened before that it was the other way round?