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thelunarsystemwrites · 2 months

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ENDING KOSA!

The only reason it didn't pass the first two times is because we spoke out about it!

DON'T PANIC, TAKE ACTION.

LET'S GET KOSA TRENDING TO GET IT ENDING!

#End kosa #Kosa #Stop kosa #stop bad internet bills #bad internet bills #bad bills

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fomybeloved · 10 days

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So uh update everyone

From what I can tell nothing happened with kosa

It hasn’t passed house it hasn’t passed senate (btw I found this on the official website)

So I’m 99% sure it was just a normal hearing today and that they didn’t vote on it

Also I couldn’t find anything about it passing today

But I will keep y’all updated!

#kosa #fuck kosa #anti kosa #kosa bill #kosa act #stop kosa #end kosa #kids online safety act #bad bills #bad internet bills #somewhat good update #important

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asksleepymclean · 10 days

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Do they really want to pass the bill? Will the Internet disappear forever today?!

Yes, they want to pass this damn Kosa bill, however we are STILL fighting with this..We don't want them to pass the bill..We are all against the bill.They did not pass the bill because we still continue to loudly say that we are against Kosa.We must not give up…We must continue to fight.

We are doing everything possible that they did not pass the bill and if we continue in the same spirit,we won it.. If we do nothing, we will lose the Internet forever

SAY YOU ARE AGAINST THE KOSA BILL...Tell Congress you are against the Kosa bill.

CALL/EMAIL/FAX YOUR REPS AND SENATORS.... Keep saying you are against the Kosa Bill..

Keep Fighting!!! Don't give up..We have to stop this!!

Edit :

As for the second question, I already answered last time, but I will answer again

If they pass the bill, the Internet will not disappear immediately after the Kosa bill is passed.However, I don't want them to pass the bill

For it to become official law, they need to be voted on by a Committee, then go to the House, then to the Senator, then go to review and only then go to the President to sign..

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titleknown · 2 years

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God am I burnt out about this, but here’s another terrible internet bill you need to call your senators about!

Specifically, you know the whole thing how on Twitter you can’t say the sort of hyperbolic things in hatred of politicians that you could say on the rest of the net? To the point where you have to even fucking censor the word “kill” or “die” in some cases?

Well, this bill, the See Something, Say Something Online Act of 2022, would mandate this for the whole of the net. And you could get arrested for it. And they’re trying to shove this in a must-pass bill, the National Defense Authorization Act.

And it’s also by everyone’s favorite Senator Manchin! You know, the one who’s one of the two assholes responsible for why even the few good things Biden wanted to do didn’t get to happen? God I hate that guy!

Anyhoo, the bill they plan to graft this onto is currently in the Senate Armed Services Committee, meaning if one of the following senators represents your state, call them and tell them to keep this out of the NDAA:

Jack Reed, Rhode Island, Chair

Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire

Kirsten Gillibrand, New York

Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut

Mazie Hirono, Hawaii

Tim Kaine, Virginia

Angus King, Maine[4]

Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts

Gary Peters, Michigan

Joe Manchin, West Virginia

Tammy Duckworth, Illinois

Jacky Rosen, Nevada

Mark Kelly, Arizona

Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma, Ranking Member

Roger Wicker, Mississippi

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Joni Ernst, Iowa

Thom Tillis, North Carolina

Dan Sullivan, Alaska

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Rick Scott, Florida

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Josh Hawley, Missouri

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Here's where you can find means of contacting your senators, please do so, and please boost this due to Tumblr’s stupid policy of zapping posts with links in them from their searches!

#internet #internet bills #bad bills #politics #joe manchin #fuck joe manchin

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bekfast59 · 2 months

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People in Missouri.

Stop scrolling. Read this.

I will now put the entirey of a summary of a recently introduced bill.

Establishes the offense of contributing to social transition and requires a person to be placed on the sexual offender registry if guilty of the offense of contributing to social transition

They are gonna put teachers on the sex offender list for talking about trans people.

MAKE THIS VIRAL

#missouri #transgender #bad bills

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videogamesincolor · 5 months

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GRV.T-SSG SYSTEMS VER 11/22/23

Hey, guys, just wanna remind y'all, that Bad Internet Bills has a collection of information on the United States Government's intentions to surveil and control the Internet Infrastructure to the point of violating privacy and civil liberties of the people.

The RESTRICT ACT (aka "TikTok Ban Bill"), along with a host of other bad bills, basically intends to criminalize dissent and penalize individuals using or interacting with digital infrastructure they deem 'foreign adversaries' with million dollar fines, and more than 20+ years of prison time.

It's a bad scene, and I would urge you all to look into these bills, get in contact with your representatives, lawmakers, and make some noise about this. We've already been doing this, but for anyone who isn't 100% about the issue, now if your time. Research.

Check out TikTok user, diedmadaboutit (Diggity) and their summary of the RESTRICT bill, spread those summary videos around. They urge you to read the bill on your own, however. The spread of information beyond mine or their perspectives is vital to preventing it from becoming a reality.

(The recent FCC report from Brendan Carr might have something to do with this bill, or not. I'm not sure.)

Don't just reblog this or like this and call it a day. Create your own post(s) about it,, talk to the people you know off-line about it. Get people engaged in what will have far reaching consequences for everyone in the States.

Keep your heads, keep your cool. Use your dread and fears to create informed organization around the prevention of our government from stripping us of our rights.

Because if they can do it here, they will do it elsewhere.

Happy hunting.

(gif by freminet)

#videogamesincolor #bad bills #media manipulation #restrict act #censorship

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iri-desky · 2 months

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GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

(IMPORTANT UPDATE: Kosa will not necessarily pass on the 26th. It only has the support to pass in Senate, and we STILL HAVE TIME. That being said, time is of the essence.)

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

Reblog if you think KOSA is unfair and shouldn't be anyone's problem -- including the adults ALL OVER THE DAMN EARTH forced to face the mass censorship it causes because "think of the American Children!".

Reblog if you support internet activism and Palestine.

Reblog if you hate fascism or censorship, and don't want actually serious and helpful conversations censored on the internet.

Reblog if you value the internet in any way at all whatsoever.

CHECK THIS PETITION, TOO! https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-kosa?recruiter=1331807538&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&recruited_by_id=57368c40-d0fd-11ee-98f7-2175430f819f&share_bandit_exp=initial-36809664-en-US

(Also, please reblog with at least "stop kosa" as a tag and not "kosa". I made the mistake of not adding just "kosa" as a tag...)

We won't let this stand any longer. Let's start a riot and get this trending.

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chaotickit · 29 days

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As of now, Florida and Kansas have passed bills that align with KOSA.

So many people have held back on speaking out against KOSA or signing petitions because "it probably won't pass." But we have proof that it very well can and will.

So what can we do right now?

The same thing we've been doing: bring awareness and protest.

Here are a few websites you can visit to sign petitions:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

https://www.stopkosa.com/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act

You can also call your state reps. This post explains how you can do that.

Good luck, everyone! Don't give up yet.

#fuck kosa #stop kosa #kosa bill #kids online safety act #kids online safety bill #stop internet censorship #bad internet bills #kosa #important

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reyna-obsessed · 2 months

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PLEASE SIGN AS MANY PEITIONS AS YOU CAN AGAINST THE KOSA BILL

IT. MUSN'T. PASS

USE THE TAGS. GET THEM TRENDING. SPREAD THESE LINKS AROUND.

#kosa #stop kosa #kosa bill #kids online safety act #kids online safety bill #bad internet bills

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socialjusticefail · 19 days

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California has a state senator trying to get a bill that wants to remove anonymity.

#first amendment #bad bills

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sleep-deprived-person · 2 months

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So apparently KOSA (2024 edition) is getting either thrown out until next year or put into effect in six days. That was a guesstimate based on a different person saying that's when Congress is back in session and may be false.

Update that's going in the main post at the top: it has enough support to pass Congress.

It failed the last two times because people were voting against it.

This time, KOSA has traction among the pro-LGBTQ parties. Because nobody is fucking calling their bullshit and screaming from the rooftops that calling it the "Kids Online Safety Act" is misleading.

What will it passing do?

Nothing much, only prevent any education on LGBTQIA+ (it's that stupid fucking argument about us grooming kids again), shut down nearly every fandom space on the internet, and make it required for most big tech companies to have your ID.

Want to have resources for kids to discover their identity readily available? Yes? Then fucking speak up against this stupid fucking bill.

Fandom spaces like Tumblr, Twitter (? I thought the MAGA assholes liked Musk?), Tiktok, Archive Of Our Own, and any other website that hosts fanfic or fanart? Either shut down permanently, forced to uproot to a different country and down for a while (best case scenario, and they likely won't be able to send any data, and therefore fanfics, to the US), or gutted so that you only get to put G rated cishet ships on there, if any shipping at all. How to avoid that? I've already said it: Call your fucking representatives.

Want to avoid the fucking dystopic task of being legally obligated to give big tech your government issue ID? Again, cause an uproar. Call your goddamned representatives.

If they can pass this, the ripple effects could be catastrophic.

So, for fuck's sake, any Americans that can impact this stupid fucking bill and see this? Do everything in your power to shut it down because you have until February twenty sixth (26th) to send this bill back to where it belongs.

And if you can't do that? Reblog, copy my tags, and boost the signal.

Sorry not sorry for ranting, making you scroll through that, and swearing a probably excessive amount, but KOSA is a bill with a GLOBAL IMPACT being passed by ONE COUNTRY because some old people are scared of two guys with who were told they were girls kissing within five hundred miles of a child. Fuck this shit, I shouldn't have to worry about bad bills in America but I fucking do because I use the internet and would like to avoid mass censorship. Fuck this, fuck conservatives, and fuck the fact that some boomers make your country's policies.

Now, if you won't mind me, I'm going to be up until three in the morning downloading fanfiction or copying and pasting them into a a text file if I can't so I can read them by the end of the week.

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thelunarsystemwrites · 2 months

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WE. WILL. WIN.

KOSA Is gonna get defeated if we try hard enough, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHOSE SPOKE OUT ABOUT IT SO FAR!!

We keep pushing, keep hoping, keep fighting!

#end bad bills #stop bad internet bills #i'm bad with words #bad internet bills #bad bills #Stop kosa #End kosa #No kosa #Kosa #Anti kosa #kids online safety act #Definitely an 'act'#BECAUSE ITS BULLSHIT!

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mental-mona · 3 months

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#lgbtq+#lgbt #lgbt issues #lgbt activism #political activist #political action #perspective #bad bills #not all threats are equal

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asksleepymclean · 9 days

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Hey..Have you seen or heard the news that Kansas wants to pass a bill on July 1st?

Yes, I saw the news that they want to pass a bill in Kansas..Anti LGBT and Internet Censorship bill - sucks…However, we all continue to fight so that they do not pass the bill..If we want to save the Internet, we must continue to call, email and fax and loudly say that we are against it.. The more noise, the more likely they will not pass the bill

I’ll just say one thing: no need to panic or give up.

Tell Congress you are against the Kosa bill.

CALL/EMAIL/FAX YOUR REPS AND SENATORS.... Keep saying you are against the Kosa Bill..

Keep Fighting!!! Don't give up..We have to stop this!

There are rumors that the House is against Kosa bill, but there is no proof yet

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dib-thing-wannabe · 2 months

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OKAY SO GOOD NEWS: THE KOSA HEARING HAS APPARENTLY BEEN MOVED TO MARCH 13-16 INSTEAD!! WE STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME!!!

THAT BEING SAID, WE STILL DEFINITELY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO PASS!!

For Palestines sake.

For Yamens sake.

For Congos sake.

For LGBTQIA+ kids and adults alike.

For everyone.

FUCK OFF KOSA, AND FUCK OFF AMERICA!

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super-firepaw119 · 17 days

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Another KOSA update:

Sadly, it is true that today, 04/10/2024, KOSA has been introduced to the House BUT! That doesn’t mean it’s game over just yet!

Proof:

Friendly reminder that there is much less support for KOSA in the House than the Senate. And even if it does pass the House—God forbid, it’s not over until the President signs it.

Here is the phone number for the Committee that’ll be holding the hearing on April 17th (Use the top number), and of course keep calling your Senators & House Representative.

I know this is scary for a lot of people, but we have to keep fighting. Please spread this around & don’t give up!

Don’t lose hope.

KEEP FIGHTING.

#long post #stop kosa #kids online safety act #bad internet bills #us politics #important #stay strong y’all

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