Great research! ID age verification laws are not only incredibly invasive, but corrupt as well.
Tech companies like Meta are actively lobbying for these mass surveillance laws.
🚨 UPDATE on the freedom-killing KIDS Act. The bill has not yet shown up on the Senate legislation tracker, but we CANNOT RISK them rushing it through like they did in the House.
Call your Senators NOW and refer to it as H.R.7757, the KIDS Act.
🔗 Senator lookup tool + example message in replies!
Things you can do to fight KOSA & the KIDS Act:
- write op-eds for local journals
- reach out to journalists about your opposition
- read and understand the bills fundamentally
- make a lot of noise to representatives
- meet with legislators
- form a protest locally
there’s still time. please please please call your representatives & your senators as much as you can, tell them you’re against KOSA and the KIDS act. Please don’t give up now, we cannot let this pass.
202-224-3121
The House floor vote didn't quite go our way, but the fight's not over yet.
Start contacting your Senators and tell them to oppose the KIDS Act, and if that doesn't work, this package can still be stopped in court like what happened with the CDA of 1996 and COPA.
202-224-3121
Call TODAY and TOMORROW
KIDS & KOSA are massive Internet Surveillance bills On the table tomorrow!
FLOOD THE PHONES. WE ARE THE ONLY BARRIER TO PASSING. NO TO INTERNET ID! Do not repeal Section 230! Leave the parenting to the parents!!!
Here’s the roll call of members of Congress who betrayed the Constitution and the American people by voting yes on the KIDS Act.
The sickest part is that these people used “protecting kids” as an excuse to further insert government between parents and their children—all while establishing a surveillance infrastructure to monitor and control Americans of all ages.
You must call your representatives today. Public backlash can change this. This bill package is a privacy destroying abomination that will require data collection and ID verification for large parts of the internet. The vote will happen on Monday the 29th.
We have a little over 24 hours to save the internet. The vote is being rushed to the US House floor on Monday the 29th.
"Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications." -- EFF https://t.co/4vVQcYPDct
The bill has bipartisan support and large corporate donors, who all have a vested interest in eroding your privacy and freedom of speech. Similar bills have already passed in other countries and individual states and led to ID scanning mandates, faulty AI moderation, the removal of encrypted messaging, etc.
If passed, some platforms will require ID scans from all users, some may try to deploy faulty 'estimation' technology that will randomly trigger and cause your accounts to be either permanently deleted or locked until you fork over an ID. These systems have been a disaster where deployed in other regions and led to many account losses and data breaches.
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If you're concerned about age verification and digital ID and your privacy as a whole but live in Europe, your fight is here.
Go to https://t.co/DHwcW1HZF7 to contact Members of Parliament and tell them NO to CHAT CONTROL.
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KOSA AND THE KIDS ACT COULD BE VOTED ON AS SOON AS MONDAY
WE NEED TO DRIVE AS MANY CALLS AS WE CAN TO THE HOUSE OVER THE COURSE OF THIS WEEKEND
202-221-3121
Important note: the number in the tweet is wrong.
It's this: (202) 224-3121
5 calls has scripts for you to use: https://t.co/5dJfbHG3oY
You can also find your state reps/sens here: https://t.co/1w5RNPjysM
If you can't do a call, emailing is also an option.
they keep asking to vote again and again despite NO MEANING NO
if this shit passes and gets enforced the EU is done for, fr, it's that severe
and there is one person to blame for it this time: Roberta Metsola
call your MEPs, send them e-mails, last time it actually did work
even just ONE phone call to your state senators/representatives
even just ONE email
even signing just ONE petition
Doing *ANYTHING* is a hundred times better than doing absolutely nothing to fight the censorveillance state
🧵THREAD: The KIDS Act is a parade of bad internet bills stuffed into one package and presented under the guise of “protecting kids online.”
Let’s get into how this bill completely fails to protect children.👇
Reminder it's been stopped MULTIPLE TIMES because of *major* pushback.
Yes we should do more but until one of yall organize and come up with something, calling reps in mass numbers is the best thing. We have the numbers but aren't utilizing them.
202-224-3121