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Senate to Vote on Web Censorship Bill Disguised as Kids Safety

The Senate will vote this week on the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill certain to seriously restrict free speech and privacy online for everyone.

The KOSA regime will almost certainly block a huge array of helpful and supportive content related to things like mental health, sexuality, and addiction, while also sending kids fleeing to services that are harder to monitor. Last month, we learned big tech's age/identity verifier left everyone's IDs/SSNs open and accessible for over a year," notes Shoshana Weissmann, digital director and fellow at the R Street Institute. "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.'"

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