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Kosa was "updated" but its still bad : call to action !
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship.
The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. The bill creates liability for platforms that fail to block young people from a list of content that it deems harmful. The natural result of this censorious scheme is that a large amount of material will likely be banned outright or put out of the reach of children, leaving huge holes in what information is accessible online.
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