3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.
3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.
The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.
3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.::The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.
Fact: Any time a bill has a name about protecting children, it's never actually about protecting children.
Also, what do the big tech companies have to gain by supporting this bill? They're typically opposed to anything that can open them up to litigation.
I think the tech companies believe they'll get good PR for a bill that purports to be about child safety. In actuality, the bill will allow them to censor anything they want on their platforms while sidestepping criticism about curtailing free speech because they can say "we're just trying not to get sued; if you have a problem, take it up with Washington"
Seems like what they would gain is forcing users to have over PII and tracking them to access a non blocked content. It's good for their ability to make money off advertising and forcing users into closed eco systems they control, and killing competition that doesn't require registration.
Control
Shields them from liability, kisses the ring of the powers that be, and makes them look like they are doing something good.
The biggest take away from all this is
A handful of tech companies manage and control the majority of public information.
A handful of politicians who are in bed with the same corporations and they are all willing to control that information for their own personal religious beliefs
Serious question: If this bill passes, how will the US Internet be meaningfully different than China's Internet, if it's used to censor stuff the government doesn't like?
Well... The internet was originally built on decentralized communications. We may have to transition more heavily to the darkweb, any attempts to block that would be an attack on freedom of speech.
Humanity seems to progress/regress in waves. We'll try to ride this out, and some of us will use ingenuity to make a taller ladder vs the govt's taller walls. They can never keep pace.
In the fall, Jezebel reported how a bipartisan bill ostensibly meant to protect children from harmful content online could be weaponized by Republican politicians to censor everything from LGBTQ+ content to sex ed info to abortion resources—and for all internet users, not just children.
This is so dystopian
Always assume the worst case scenario. This bill is another version of the "Patriot Act" that extends to whatever your dumbass state wants it to ban.
As an aside, they always say to edit your message to your representatives. What do you say?
Oo very nice. I might have to donate money for that shirt.
For whatever reason, when I hear KOSA, it conjures up SOPA and PIPA. Feels like it's been so long since any of these came up but I guess existential-level threats to internet content and privacy never fully die~
It's because this bill is the evolution of those bills.
they will keep trying until the most egregious censorship passes
the system is broken, rebel or your internet is done for.
Have these people nothing better to do.
Nobody defended communities discussing illegal things, then nobody defended communities discussing questionable legal things, then nobody defended disfavored things like firearms channels/YouTubers, now it's your turn.
I don't have enough money to play the game.
I can't wait for porn to be blurred out crotches and boobs with little stars instead of nipples. Darn!
It was perfect! In case you are reading this in the future next couple of years, back in 2024, you just typed a few words on the search engine and you too could witness excellent quality videos of various men and women having fun with their body parts in ways that you didn't even think were possible, and are too weak to do if you had anyone to do them with. We are talking penises, mouths, vaginas, balls and boobs and their various combinations.
Violence is an answer.
This will probably what will happen.
Probably something to do with healthcare costs and preventing people from taking FMLA for babies