cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/2628014
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act).
If you’re in the US, https://www.stopkosa.com/ makes it easy to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose KOSA.
"A new bill called the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, is sailing towards passage in the Senate with bipartisa>n support. Among other things, this bill would give the attorney general of every state, including red states, the right to sue Internet platforms if they allow any content that is deemed harmful to minors. This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don’t even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people.
The right wing Heritage Foundation has already stated publicly that the GOP will use this provision to remove any discussions of trans or queer lives from the Internet. They’re salivating over the prospect.
And yep, I did say this bill has bipartisan support. Many Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. And President Joe Biden has urged lawmakers to pass this bill in the strongest possible terms."
That’s why it’s important to vote.
The bill has bipartisan support. Who do you vote for when both sides are in on it?
Not familiar with the US system, but can’t you vote in primaries to have better candidates?
In theory, yes. In practice, the 2 main political parties have too much power to allow anyone outside their approval to win.
The parties don’t even have to take a vote before nominating a candidate, they don’t even need to hold primaries. In fact Republicans are trying to rewrite the laws/rules/guidelines whatever in a few of their states.
The former DNC chair has said something to the effect that she wouldn’t have allowed Sanders to get nominated even if he got the votes.
Honestly no. In 2016 Burnie had momentum and growing support. He won my state’s primary. The media just refused to talk about him, often just flat out ignoring he was a candidate. Instead they pushed Hilary hard.
Its not just the media, the DNC have all but admitted it, in fact I think Shultz has essentially admitted it.
Here is a source, there are probably more/better sources but I am at work.
Yeah but he wouldn’t have been as popular in the South
Both Dems and Reps support this
Even Biden wants to sign off on this right away
It’s really disheartening to see this. But it’s still worth voting, because only if Republicans have power can they use this to remove all evidence of LGBTQ+ people from the internet, and only Republicans want to use it this way.
Vote for the rich! They always have poor people’s best interests in mind. The solution to our problems is more rich people. Surely they won’t fuck us. Why would they ever do that?