@inks-artsyo.bsky.social
The privacy issue with KOSA "resonating with a large swath of people"-- that's you, that was you calling your reps. Don't let anyone tell you it's pointless
Let's do it again for the censorship bills in this new package
Had to share this from twitter just because
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Texas and Utah have passed ID verification laws (KOSA) for all appstore use.Texas starts 1/02/26 Utah starts in July. Contact your reps!! tell your senate to vote no so it isnt made federal!! support organizations who are against this like eff!
contact senate: act.eff.org/action/tell-...
KOSA dropping duty of care is great but this article buries a very important lede:
A bill package will be introduced once the govt reopens that is a collection of multiple bad "child safety" bills, COPPA 2.0, the Sammy Act, and the App Store Accountability Act [age verification]
CALL YOUR REPS
Data from 68,000 Australians, some collected as part of a social media companies' age check scheme, has been breached just before the government's new age ban policy kicks in. Cam Wilson reports.
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join this stream to see a bunch of folks awkwardly stand around not looking at the screen that says ZOHRAN MAMDANI WINS RACE FOR MAYOR while Uptown Girl plays over the intercom
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Morning.
04.11.2025 05:11 — 👍 4007 🔁 568 💬 74 📌 12"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw"
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
New awareness campaign
03.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 24412 🔁 10986 💬 134 📌 184Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONX2...
And the time for the debate in your timezone: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
#StopKillingGames
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
20.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 9511 🔁 2660 💬 98 📌 63Life comes first, take all the time you need to attend to that and get well soon.
29.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Make sure you don't forget: the EU wants to vote on "online safety recommendations" similar to Australia in November.
Please ring the bell and spread the word on this. #fightchatcontrol #ChatControl #savespeech
bsky.app/profile/onyx...
Yeah... it ain't fawking changing... save the internet!
#ChatControl
ProtectEU is Chat Control on steroids.
#repost this and contact the EU officials.
#savespeech #fightchatcontrol #KOSA
gonna need all hamds on deck for this. That said, no matter what happens, do not panic. Shit is rough rn but we have to stick together and fight back, whether to stop the signature or demand stronger human rights protections.
Call your reps now.
KOSA is now an even bigger threat, and it was already catastrophically horrific, with AI and Palantir building databases with ICE and the federal fascist government to connect evreything you do online to yourself. And now, it's going to be attached to your govt ID!!!
25.10.2025 20:13 — 👍 40 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0I contacted my representatives today about KOSA, and you should too!
if their phones arent responding to calls, dont forget you can send them emails or letters!
Please contact your representatives about KOSA!
Phone calls, emails, letters, whatever option works best for you! But choose what works best and send a LOT of them until this legislation is put down!
Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.
It NEEDS mass pushback.
An illustration of a smilodon skull over a green background, pink text reading "I'd rather die than use Ai"
Saw something that @realgdt.bsky.social said the other day, and remembered I had something I started a while ago that I should finish up.
I'm so tired of all this.
Now that they've passed age-verification for porn sites, Ohio legislators want you to scan your face to download a period tracker.
20.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 391 🔁 223 💬 26 📌 20Not quite. They cut off IDF access to their Azure cloud services, but they remain a major technical infrastructure supplier, and they remain on BDS' boycott list.
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Roblox hosts all kinds of predators, but the platform believes it should be exempt from the social media ban - ABC News share.google/NyOncyuyc2p4... #News #Auspol #Australia
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There are signs social media companies are making changes or trying to argue against being included in the ban less than two months out. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
14.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Notable side effects of Australia u16 social media ban. #magicAI is not classified as social media, probably...
14.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This KOSA Act will have everyone's identity at Risk if they are to verify ID'S online, as doing research recently, discord had over 2 million ID'S exposed by a hacker because of their ID verification.
As No Text To speech was contacted by him.
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While KOSA has amassed a lot of co-sponsors lately, let's not forget about the other bills. STOP CSAM has been gathering co-sponsors as well, just at a comparitively slower rate than KOSA.
The Senate version has 11 co-sponsors, and the House version has 10 co-sponsors (got 4 yesterday).
Kids package comes together We’d like to kick off this edition with a little news: The House Energy and Commerce Committee is firming up a package of bills that aim to protect kids online, including a revised version of the controversial Kids Online Safety Act. This effort, which we learned about from multiple people familiar with the planning, is one we’ve been telling you is a growing possibility since the summer. The lineup of bills is solidifying, and it could include about a dozen pieces of legislation. A hearing is expected on the bills, followed by a markup. The timing for the package is in flux given the elephant currently dancing in Washington’s living room: the government shutdown. The House has been out during the funding lapse, and the panel isn’t expected to take the package up until the government reopens. A package approach could serve as a sweetener for a slimmed-down KOSA, as it would likely address a lot of kids-protection impulses. It could also mark progress in an area lots of lawmakers care about, but where compromise has been hard to come by.
Let’s break it down. The non-KOSA bits. We’ll get into all the KOSA wrangling below. But first, here’s a look at what might also be included in the package. One part involves having smartphones check if users are old enough to view certain content. It could pit apps and websites — including powerful players like Meta — against Apple. Free speech and privacy groups also dislike the idea. Another bill the panel has long liked would extend existing kids’ privacy protections online to some teens. Then there’s an intriguing possibility we’ve come across: Both Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) have talked about wanting to tackle chatbots. That’s an area with a lot of ideas — and a lot of concern — but not necessarily legislative consensus.
KOSA. The most controversial part of the package will likely be KOSA. Its provisions include a crackdown on design features like infinite scroll and limits on data collection and algorithms for young users. KOSA has previously also imposed a legal “duty of care” on platforms to mitigate certain harms for kids and teens. Last year, that provision spurred an intra-Republican split. House leadership killed KOSA over concerns that a duty would result in censorship and be a massive liability for tech firms. The House GOP lead on KOSA, Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) told us in recent weeks he has designed a new version amid more productive conversations with those same leaders. The details of the new bill are still being worked out, but when we asked about the duty of care provision opposed by his leadership, Bilirakis said the bill will be “different.” We can take the hint. House GOP leadership has indicated that watering that language down will be crucial for KOSA to clear the chamber. Democrats. Pulling back on KOSA creates two problems — and that’s where the idea of the package could come in handy.
The first is Energy and Commerce Democrats who are committed to the duty of care policy. Bilirakis and Guthrie say they want to keep these Democrats on board. That will be difficult. We’ll let Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), Bilirakis’s erstwhile partner on the legislation, explain where she stands: “I encourage House Republican leadership to spend more time listening to families who fear a watered-down bill from the House, and less time meeting with Big Tech executives who value profits over the best interests of kids.” We’re not saying bundling KOSA with other bills meant to protect kids and teens online will overcome the objections of Castor, other panel Democrats and many parents’ groups. A package, though, allows Guthrie to say he’s trying to give Democrats — as well as any quietly wishy-washy Republicans — more than they’re losing. Senators. The second problem is the Senate, where the version of KOSA with a broad duty of care passed with more than 90 votes last year.
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Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are keeping the momentum going for their bill, and this they week secured the magic 60-cosponsor threshold for their proposal. (Read the bill text in The Portal.) The Senate usually wants the final say on the language of whatever legislation passes Congress. A filibuster-proof majority has long been a way for senators to show their House colleagues what can clear the chamber. “Establishing a ‘duty of care’ through the Kids Online Safety Act is essential to protecting our kids and giving parents peace of mind,” Blackburn said in a statement. We’ll note one conspicuous absence from the KOSA cosponsor list: Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Cruz clearly doesn’t want to commit to a particular approach to better position himself for dealmaking with the House down the road. — Ben Brody and Diego Areas Munhoz
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Sorry that I'm spamming this, so damn tired rn.
