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so, I've been posting most of my art to my tumblr as of late, replies will have links. I've also been pushing to use cohost and bluesky which will also be in replies!
i will be periodically also posting previews to pieces here!
Thank God, the SCREEN Act failed.
KOSA may have passed, but the war ain't over yet, folks.
Keep contacting your representatives!
Tell them to vote no on KOSA!
So, what I've heard is, good news, SCREEN Act failed.
Bad news, KOSA passed the committee. Which sucks. But it wasn't a final vote, there is a delay and there is a recess/break till September for them to pick it up again.
So while this is happening. Keep fighting against KOSA!!
Keep it trending. Let every politician know that their vote will be their resignation. These bills are overwhelmingly unpopular.
The lobbying organizations that have cooked them up HATE that they are being discussed publicly because they have no defense for them other than "protect the children" on repeat.
The Digital Age Assurance Act is being sold as the age check that never asks for your ID. You just tell your device how old you are.
But if a company decides your behavior doesn't match the age you gave, it has to report you upstream, and the operating system provider "shall verify the age of the user."
The bill never says how. It requires verification and then refuses to limit the method. Which means the method will be the cheapest one already built: a document upload or a face scan.
🚨 KOSA advanced today - but it is not law yet.
The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE.
The good news: the SCREEN Act failed to advance today. It's delayed however, not dead.
Next comes a full Senate vote, followed by a House-Senate fight. Contact your senators NOW: vote NO on S.1748, remove the "duty of care", and reject mass surveillance disguised as child protection.
social media IS NOT. DESIGNED. FOR KIDS.
STOP BABY-IFYING THE INTERNET FOR LAZY PARENTS.
ALL these “child safety” bills do is enable the censorveillance state!
*slams table* THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU ALL.
THEY ARE USING KIDS AS A TROJAN HORSE TO IMPLEMENT CENSORSHIP AND SURVEILLANCE.
THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT PROTECTING KIDS.
Please take action against KOSA and age verification today, not just by liking and retweeting.
https://t.co/De5pWrP7ZM
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This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act.
Use the official lookup tool at https://t.co/n48wYrEk2m to find yours by state.
The SCREEN Act, which will go for a full committee markup next Wednesday, on its own would force every single adult in the US to do ID/age verification. With that would come mass censorship & surveillance over the last bit of freedom and information we have - the internet.
KOSA is soft on crime. Mandating Digital IDs creates a massive data honeypot ripe for predators and cybercriminals.
Lawmakers should be focusing on funding police to stop actual online criminals instead of pushing unconstitutional proposals that endanger American data. 👮
Urgent reminder: Call your senators to stop the KIDS Act. Defend the free & open internet or let the technofeudalist billionaires run it instead.
They want age verification so they can profit off your personal data & photo.
(202) 224-3121
https://t.co/c1VY2luTgJ
Please please email and call your representatives about the internet censorship bills such as KOSA and the repealing of Section 230. If these bills (AND MORE) get passed, you won't be able to do anything on the internet without your ID.