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I've been hearing some deeply worrying things about 4 surveillance/censorship bills: From what I've been able to gather online, these bills (the Kids Online Safety Act, EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act and RESTRICT Act) all proclaims to be about protecting children online, but the evidence I've seen from various articles highlights that they all share the same serious flaws of being too overly broad and vague, with various stipulations and elements that would actually not only fail to protect children, but also outright lead to incredibly invasive censorship. There's even been an explicit admission from far right wing groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council that they actively plan to use the first bill (and likely the others) to silence LGBT media online. They outright stated as such here: https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/how-big-tech-turns-kids-trans https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1660102669258596354 https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1660130501099921408 https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1660132535806881792 This is already alarming in itself, but religious fundamentalist groups such as NCOSE (who used to go by Morality in Media) and Exodus Cry are major supporters, and given those kinds of mindsets, I have very real worries that these kind of bills would give groups like that the permission to start targeting any website that doesn't fit within their narrow definition of moral, including this one. Can you speak up about this or at least help spread the word about these bills and the website that is set up by Fight For the Future to try to get people to contact their lawmakers about this? https://www.badinternetbills.com/ |