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The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids” (www.eff.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids”::The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that allows for a wide range of government penalties for online speech, could soon be passed by Congress. If that happens, the access we have to information may be forever changed. KOSA will make state prosecutors and federal bureaucrats the final arbiters...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

If they wanted to protect kids they’d have a long list of better options.

Gun control Better funding for education Mental health services Improvements to adoption/foster care systems

The list goes on. We’ve been shown the government only cares about kids until they’re born. So until those things are fixed, I’m going to assume it’s not really about the kids, and more about stripping our rights away.