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Fight for the Future statement on the Kids Online Safety Act
Reports indicate that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer intends to file cloture and move the dangerous and misguided Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to a floor vote in the Senate, despite widespread opposition from dozens of LGBTQ, civil liberties, and human rights groups. Hundreds of parents of trangender youth have begged lawmakers to consider alternatives […]
Under a potential Trump administration, the FTC could easily use KOSA to target content related to gender affirming care, abortion, racial justice, climate change, or anything else that Project 2025 infused agency is willing to claim makes kids “depressed” or “anxious.” So Big Tech will continue getting away with murder, because Senate leadership are choosing to score political points rather than advance thoughtful legislation. Fight for the Future runs StopKOSA.com, a coalition that includes dozens of human rights, LGBTQ, abortion rights, and racial justice groups who oppose KOSA: 18 Million Rising, Access Now, Advocacy For Principled Action In Government, Advocates for Youth, American Booksellers for Free Expression, American Civil Liberties Union, Black and Pink National, Center for Democracy & Technology, COLAGE, Defending Rights & Dissent, Don’t Delete Art, EducateUS: SIECUS In Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Equality Arizona, Equality Michigan, Equality New Mexico, Equality Texas, Equality Virginia, Fair Wisconsin, Fairness Campaign, Fight for the Future, Free Speech Coalition, Freedom Network USA, Freedom Oklahoma, Hydra Fund, Indivisible Eastside, Indivisible Plus Washington, Internet Society, Kairos, Lexington Pride Center, LGBT Technology Partnership, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Media Justice, Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity, National Coalition Against Censorship, One Iowa, Open Technology Institute, Organization for Identity and Cultural Development (OICD), Organization for Transformative Works, Organización Latina Trans in Texas, OutNebraska, PDX Privacy, Presente.org, Reframe Health and Justice, Reprocare, Restore The Fourth, SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, St. Louis Queer+ Support, Helpline, SWOP Behind Bars, TAKE, TechFreedom, The 6:52 Project Foundation, Inc., Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), TransOhio, University of Michigan Dearborn – Muslim Student Association, URGE, WA People’s Privacy.
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