I agree. It died in the senate before, it can (AND FREAKING BETTER) die in the senate again.
Still call. Still sign petitions. Still spread the word. Give ‘em heck.
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
This is what the UK spyware proposal means.
There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.
When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).
The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.
Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.
Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.
The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.
The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.
@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu
Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77
The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo
The “kids safety” here is KOSA, the mass surveillance/censorship law that is currently backed by OpenAI.
So the WH is negotiating federal preemption of state AI law “in exchange for” passing KOSA which rewards OpenAI and big tech.
There’s zero tradeoff here for the tech cos!
Australia's Social Media Ban didn't work, over 70k people's ID were stolen from a Discord data breach, Yoti was fined 950k Euros by Spain for breaking GDPR laws. I do NOT trust anyone who pushes age/ID verification to use social media or ANY service, it's more harm than good.
Hard truth…
I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted.
Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely.
They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil.
I assure you.
These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism.
ATLA is a mystery to them.
They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise.
Once again, "age assurance" is just the latest rebrand of age verification.
They have tried age checks, age gating, age estimation, and age assurance. All different names for the same thing forcing you to hand over your ID or scan your face.
New name.
Same scam.
OpenAI endorsing KOSA tells you everything you need to know about how bad that law is.
KOSA forces age verification and digital ID on the entire population. Your most private information now in the hands of the same AIs building data centers and helping ICE.
In every single country that passed age verification laws:
1) databases got leaked
2) innocent websites got censored
3) governments became more censorship heavy
4) protests became more criminalized
5) information got harder to find
It was never about "protecting kids" its about surveillance, control and censorship of citizens. Turkey said the quiet part outloud that all of us privacy advocates have been saying is the reason since day 1.