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janecoaston.bsky.social • 85 days ago

This is why Democrats supporting KOSA is so fucking dumb

Reposted from K* Smith

It is becoming ever more clear that if KOSA were to pass, Trump's FTC will 100% classify everything LGBTQ related as "harmful" so that they can get it purged from the internet.

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oggie.bsky.social•85 days ago

I mean at no point was this not the explicit plan. They wrote about it! And talked about it!

I am just assuming there is an unholy amount of money tied up somewhere in this.

larrymcva.bsky.social•85 days ago

That is Kids Online Safety Act for others who did not know....

susanmoran.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thank you

vickiecarey.bsky.social•85 days ago

So much for Free Speech

sjgooner.bsky.social•85 days ago

More like, on brand?

kenwhite.bsky.social•85 days ago

Republicans: Vote for our “Jail Anyone Who Criticizes The President And Also Protect Children Or Something” Bill

Dems: Huh I don’t know

Republicans: Oh so you’re not in favor of protecting children?

Dems: We’re sorry we’ll vote for it

anerdylawyer.bsky.social•85 days ago

Democrats have not put up even half as much resistance as that Skeet implies

shadumura.bsky.social•85 days ago

By the time that question was even asked, half the infrastructure and military budget was already established by the democrats.

emperorblargus.bsky.social•85 days ago

It's essentially the "anti-propaganda law" from Russia or Georgia's Russia-affiliated party but for America.

@buddhaferret.bsky.social

franklinh3000.bsky.social•85 days ago

Democrats are signing on to this while "Don't say gay law!" is still echoing down in Florida. You'd think people who claim to be worried about dictatorship and the fate of democracy wouldn't be giving the incoming government greater censorship power. I guess it was all just posturing, huh?

fatalnyc.bsky.social•85 days ago

See also the insistence on complete government control over healthcare. I have no answers on how to fix our corrupt and insane healthcare system, but I'm pretty confident that handing exclusive control to Trump, RFK Jr., and the womb-control crowd wouldn't be a great idea.

experimental22.bsky.social•85 days ago

Based on Trump's nominees, who doesn't think that he would put hateful, bigoted Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok in charge?

ridder.bsky.social•85 days ago

Who'd have thought? I only wanted this law passed for *good* reasons.

jaymerryfield.bsky.social•85 days ago

The American descent to transform into North Korea is well underway I see.

mkverson.bsky.social•85 days ago

📌

never-maga.bsky.social•85 days ago

We need to rise up. Anyone who isn’t willing to protest or stand by and watch is complicit.

andref1989.bsky.social•85 days ago

It's literally the Russian model.. It hasn't exactly been good for LGBT people there since..

chasingennui.bsky.social•85 days ago

This is why people supporting censorship in general are so ducking dumb.

ds00n.bsky.social•85 days ago

Anything that can be done by those without the means to put their bodies and freedom on the line to stop this besides this?

https://5calls.org/issue/reject-kosa-kids-online-safety-act/

PS How many times a day does a person have to call about this before a Congress person gets it?

micbi.bsky.social•85 days ago

Same for SESTA, FOSTA and PAFACA

salarta.bsky.social•85 days ago

I’m at the point now where I think most Dems are actually Republicans. They behave like Republicans, they try to get votes from Republicans, where’s the difference.

lizardky.bsky.social•85 days ago

I feel very Cassandra-ish of late.

What's really depressing is that even with a Trump presidency 2 months away, there are STILL people on here going "ThErE nEeDs tO bE mOrE IntErNeT SpEecH rEgUlAtIoN!"

lucystag.bsky.social•85 days ago

Worse than dumb -- pathological.

ksmithmi.bsky.social•85 days ago

Earlier this week, a couple Democratic US senators co-signed a letter with Ted Cruz(!) and Marsha Blackburn(!) urging the House to pass KOSA.

Blackburn has written that she wants to pass KOSA so that LGBTQ info can be removed from the internet.

Insane.

lucystag.bsky.social•85 days ago

Well if they refuse to know that, it's totally fine to pass.

tdestroyer209.bsky.social•85 days ago

For these wondering Blackburn wasn’t the one who created KOSA.

Blumenthal is the one who created KOSA and he’s been involved in many anti-internet bills like SOPA, SOSTA-FESTA, etc.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1409

mmasnick.bsky.social•85 days ago

pssst @edmarkey.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov.

ksmithmi.bsky.social•85 days ago

If KOSA does end up passing next year,

and be used by the Trump administration to rid the Internet of LGBTQ, abortion and other "harmful" information,

all the Democrats who supported it will claim that they had no way of knowing that KOSA would be used that way.

But they've been warned.

ksmithmi.bsky.social•85 days ago

Anyway...

I'm a middle-aged/cis/straight/white guy.

Bad bills such as KOSA wouldn't be too bad for people like me.

But for those not like me, it would be a different story.

It is a shame that the political party that is supposed to be protecting disadvantaged groups is working against them.

thegreatwroggi.bsky.social•85 days ago

Speaking of which, this just just dropped.

https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2024/12/07/senators-release-updated-kosa-text

shadumura.bsky.social•85 days ago

The previous president was the one who wrote the Crimes bill that targeted black communities while his VP padded her career portfolio with throwing said communities into prison for longer sentences and fought against parole, to maintain prison slave labor.

brada.bsky.social•85 days ago

If the other eleventy reasons were somehow inadequate.

futuremonkey.bsky.social•85 days ago

But the chillllllldrunnn

mothvibes.bsky.social•85 days ago

Not if Democrats are also shitheads just begging for an excuse to betray the people they pretend to represent. Evil, but not uncharacteristic.

notatiktok.bsky.social•85 days ago

We really need competitive primaries in the democratic party. I was calling to primary Bob Casey for his support for KOSA in Pennsylvania and too many supposed fools gaslight me and equated my call to voting for Trump.

notatiktok.bsky.social•85 days ago

Too many seem to treat incumbent elections like horses races, Casey's a sure bet I've been told!

joewv.bsky.social•85 days ago

Part of this issue is when a candidate doesn’t get the most votes in the primary, some supporters don’t accept it and make stolen election claims. Protest votes/vote abstaining if your primary candidate doesn’t win is partly to blame if you can’t trust allies to accept a loss.

notatiktok.bsky.social•85 days ago

Then those candidates should wise up and make deals for endorsement or use the primary election to see what motivated them so much since those voters were also likely to skip/protest vote without a primary. Plus a primary is a better early warning system they are not as popular than relying on polls

joewv.bsky.social•85 days ago

Too many demand complete capitulation to every demand. It’s been an obviously self defeating flex to allow far worse candidates to win just because they can’t get the most votes in the primary. It only got them Roe overturned. That’s what republicans did to the far right.

notatiktok.bsky.social•85 days ago

I have yet to see evidence primaries cost dems the general election that existing greviences didnt cause. Your concern would happen without primaries and plenty of primaries like Fetterman v Lamb in PA resulting in Lamb conceding and his supporters voting for Fetterman in general, who won.

checkwithscience.com•85 days ago

@schatz.bsky.social

ksmithmi.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thankfully, it it didn't pass during the summer because some of the GOP reps got concerned about what a Biden FTC might do.

Now that Trump will run the FTC, my guess is that a lot of them will change their tune.