Americans!

The Senate Judiciary Committee, in tandem with the House's Energy and Commerce Committee, is also looking to run a shock and awe campaign during a "child safety" meeting tomorrow in order to push various fascist nanny state bills (KOSA, STOP CSAM, Age Verification, etc.).

Do not buy their framing, it's nothing but moral panic nonsense.

Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #US #UnitedStates

Americans!

The Senate Judiciary Committee, in tandem with the House's Energy and Commerce Committee, is also looking to run a shock and awe campaign during a "child safety" meeting tomorrow in order to push various fascist nanny state bills (KOSA, STOP CSAM, Age Verification, etc.).

Do not buy their framing, it's nothing but moral panic nonsense.

Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #US #UnitedStates

@eff Lawmakers who draft/enact Age Verification and similar policies insist that said policies are about "child safety." But anyone with even rudimentary critical thinking skills knows that is not true

The true purposes of these policies are as follows:
-Make organizing protests virtually impossible
-Erase marginalized groups from the internet
-Make accessing vital resources much harder, if not impossible
-Erase anything that dilutes the state's ability to brainwash the populace (Palestine, Environmentalism, LGBTQ+ rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, etc.).
-To "return" sexuality and expression in general back to their "proper" place in society and make adult art, sex work, etc. more precarious, more exploitable, and with less recourse to any law or institution
-General petty spite towards people who don't treat like deities

Overall, de-anonymization won't make kids safe and it won't result in a more polite internet (just look at Facebook and LinkedIn).

Anyone who advocates for these policies shouldn't complain when their ID/Credit Card/Biometric data is inevitably leaked to the dark web and they have to deal with ID theft and such for years/decades.

#Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Internet #SocialMedia #US #UnitedStates #EU #Canada #Australia

@eff Lawmakers who draft/enact Age Verification and similar policies insist that said policies are about "child safety." But anyone with even rudimentary critical thinking skills knows that is not true

The true purposes of these policies are as follows:
-Make organizing protests virtually impossible
-Erase marginalized groups from the internet
-Make accessing vital resources much harder, if not impossible
-Erase anything that dilutes the state's ability to brainwash the populace (Palestine, Environmentalism, LGBTQ+ rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, etc.).
-To "return" sexuality and expression in general back to their "proper" place in society and make adult art, sex work, etc. more precarious, more exploitable, and with less recourse to any law or institution
-General petty spite towards people who don't treat like deities

Overall, de-anonymization won't make kids safe and it won't result in a more polite internet (just look at Facebook and LinkedIn).

Anyone who advocates for these policies shouldn't complain when their ID/Credit Card/Biometric data is inevitably leaked to the dark web and they have to deal with ID theft and such for years/decades.

#Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Internet #SocialMedia #US #UnitedStates #EU #Canada #Australia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115644471843497904

Americans!

Reminder: The House Energy and Commerce Committee is debating a whopping 19 bills regarding "child safety." This includes dangerous bills such as:

-Kids Online Safety Act (especially if "Duty of Care" is maintained)

-SCREEN Act (Broadest and most censor happy Age Verification Law)

-App Store Accountability Act (Age Verification for App Stores)

-Parents over Platforms Act (Age Verification for Apps)

-RESET Act (Under 16 social media ban)

-Sammy's Law (Mass surveillance on minors, would out closeted LGBTQ+ youth, etc.)

Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm?Class=1

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #SocialMedia #DigitalRights #US #UnitedStates

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