‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship.::Washington, D.C. - This week, a bipartisan cohort of US Senators unveiled a new version of the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that aims to impose various restrictions and requirements on tech
Everytime I read a bill with a moniker like this I’m immediately sceptical
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When they say, “It’s for the children”, you can rest assured, it’s not.
Its annoying because its two gross invasive chronic bad-actors competing for who can be more obnoxious.
You’ve got the House Republicans trying to make Being Gay Online a terrorist act. And then you’ve got the Zuck-club, trying to find new ways to monetize a sensor in your phone that detects every time you take a shit.
Either I accept that an agent at DHS has the right to send me to Gitmo for doing AI Art of two Jesuses kissing or I have to accept the possibility that I one day won’t be able to hail a cab without giving Uber my daily cholesterol numbers.
It’s okay guys, the party of small government would absolutely never encroach on abusing their powers!
/s
It’s not abuse if they’re doing it!
You know this is bipartisan, right?
Donkeys aren’t free of fascism either
Who could have seen this coming?
Simpsons did it best….
…. Won’t someone pleeeease think of the children!
Tale as old as time (yes I know your answer was /sarcastic)
The consumer choice center is a Washington/ Brussels think tank and lobbying group. They are passionate about free markets and consumer choice and oppose taxes and regulations on things like petroleum products, tobacco, and sugary/fatty foods.
I don’t have an opinion on the “Kids” act, just consider the source.
For my taste, framing CCC as a “Washington/Brussels” project is a far too close to what Russian smearbots do (link everything unpopular back to their current hate objects, i.e. foster resentment against the EU, liberals, etc.).
It looks very much like the CCC is an international organization funded and controlled by the far right.
Their website states:
Which countries is CCC active in?
The CCC works currently with tens of thousands of consumers and partner organizations in North America, Europe, South America, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and many more.
Their colorful funding history:
Big Tobacco and right-wing US billionaires funding anti-regulation hardliners in the EU
Does this suit you better? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act
We care about the kids, just let us sell them our products that may be detrimental to their welfare.
I love the part of this article where it explains why this may be the case instead of just quoting random people.
I love how it explains what is in the bill
The bill is garbage, but it cracks me up that they think this part is a bad thing:
The bill seeks to … limit developers’ inclusion of personalized recommendation systems, notifications, appearance-altering filters, and in-game purchases for apps used by minors.
Every item on that list has been abused by web/app developers in ways that exploit and/or negatively affect the brains of developing children.
It’s for all users, not just minors, but if not we’d need to have a super complex document-based AI authentication system
