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Senator Admits "Kids Online Safety Act" Will Target Trans Content Online.

Senator Admits "Kids Online Safety Act" Will Target Trans Content Online

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety?

The lead sponsor of the "Kids Online Safety Act," otherwise known as KOSA, has stated over the weekend that it will be used to "protect minor children from the transgender in our culture."

Senator Admits "Kids Online Safety Act" Will Target Trans Content Online.::The lead sponsor of the "Kids Online Safety Act," otherwise known as KOSA, has stated over the weekend that it will be used to "protect minor children from the transgender in our culture."

24 comments

PeterPoopshit

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Before you know it, it will be almost impossible to browse the internet normally without getting a visit from the feds for some bs reason. Guess we'll all be using the dark net for everything.

some_guy

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Thus driving people to the place where CSAM is.

uriel238

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As it always was. The usenet alt.* address set was actually for Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists. The public will respond to internet prohibition the way it responded to alcohol prohibition (or abortion prohibition, or speeding prohibition, etc.) And to get technology to cover our tracks, yes, we'll be making friends with terrorists, pirates and even collectors of CSAM and less accepted porn. Sellers of state secrets, too.

However, these unsavory elements have way more in common with the regular public than politicians who want to persecute undesirables to further their careers, or law enforcement officers who are eager for any excuse to kill a poor person.

p03locke

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The usenet alt.* address set was actually for Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists.

No, that was just a dumb joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.*_hierarchy

uriel238

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Curiously, when I learned of it it was a dumb joke that was the actual name of the alt. hierarchy, and I was corrected when I initially assumed it meant alternative.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but there are enough people who believe the joke that I can't assume it's just a joke. And Wikipedia used to say differently than it does today.

gregorum

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And/or the invention of the darkernet

T156

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Darkernet implies a darkestnet.

gregorum

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Now you’re gettin’ it!

Smacks

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If a law says it's "for the kids" It 100% contains some of the most intrusive, dictatorial legislation known to man

MonkderZweite

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Oh, wait. So they misuse a sprawling censorship law for things they don't like from the start?!

tabular

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Why is protecting children repeatedly so stupid and evil?

Can we have a Demise of Kids Act which makes those wooden rail sets cheaper?

x4740N

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Protecting the children is an excuse

CCatMan

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Keep kids safe online, but starve them at school. 👍

DavidDoesLemmy

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I think this is for USA only. Please put that in the title.

5BC2E7

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This should go in news or politics. Not technology

AceFuzzLord

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It definitely fits into both as the law itself will redefine how we are allowed to use our technology and the political effect it has on the country as a whole.

funkless_eck

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"there are two genders: political and men"

gregorum

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How does this not involve technology?

skymtf

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Ugh I would down vote if my instance supported, tired of these trans people are political shit. And KOSA is about tech but trans people are PoLiTiCaL

PillowTalk420

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They're trying to make laws to hurt trans people, and it's a hot issue among the populace... That is the very definition of political.

TwilightVulpine

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That doesn't mean it's any less tech for it, it's going to affect the whole landscape of the internet.

Technology can't be so easily detached from politics. It's not just about components and code, it's also about how it's used and what are the rules around it. There is a lot of politics even around something as basic as copying a file.

PillowTalk420

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I didn't mean to imply it's not also concerning tech. I think it would fit in both spheres. Just commenting on the whole "stop making trans people political" notion, like the issue isn't and hasn't been political the entire time.

TwilightVulpine

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Ah, I see. That's a complicated matter. Ultimately everything that relates to people's lives is political, but many people don't even think of matters as political unless they are having issues regarding their rights.

I don't think that response is accurate, but it's a way to convey that trans people's rights should be a given, just as cis people's rights are. Most people don't think of their cisness as political, even though it is.

teruma

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I specifically made a new account on an instance that allows downvoting just for transphobes.

Kalkaline

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