For everyone worried about KIDS Act’s and KOSA, here are some helpful links to help calm you down. We should all remain vigilant and worried but it’s not as clear cut as some might think:
1) There is significant opposition to both House and Senate versions (free speech / privacy concerns)
Links:
- ACLU (KOSA opposition; urges House to protect free speech):
https://t.co/3Hcx3xqAUr
- NetChoice (flags First Amendment concerns with the House KIDS Act):
https://t.co/lzqsPEEgVb
- EFF (opposition letter to KOSA; duty-of-care / surveillance concerns):
https://t.co/ImK4FWWvmT
Multiple major civil-liberties and privacy orgs oppose these bills for similar core reasons: chilling lawful speech and pressuring platforms into intrusive compliance.
2) Senate sponsors/co-authors have indicated the House version is “dead on arrival” (they don’t view it as acceptable)
Link:
- The Hill (explains the House-Senate mismatch and quotes Senate co-authors viewing House approach as nonstarter):
https://t.co/R9vfBisLVB
Even after House action, there’s meaningful disagreement between chambers. That mismatch tends to create delays, negotiations, and narrowing.
3) Even in the Senate, passage is not automatic; the bill could stall or fail because of internal disagreement
Link:
- The Hill (same article: “long odds,” why the Senate path is difficult):
https://t.co/R9vfBisLVB
When Senate authors publicly resist the House version, the practical effect is that a final bill must be reworked, something that can stall or collapse.
4) Similar “kids online”/age-check/duty-of-care style laws have already been treated as constitutionally risky in court, so lawsuits and injunction fights are very likely if a federal version becomes law
Links (examples of litigation challenging similar approaches on First Amendment grounds):
- NetChoice v. Griffin (Arkansas age verification / minors online litigation record via Justia):
https://t.co/spdUAJx40g
- NetChoice v. Griffin (court filing materials, via CourtListener recap):
https://t.co/Lwd5FgDmPW
- NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio parental notification / related First Amendment challenge PDF):
https://t.co/MdEcbilzOu
- NetChoice v. Skrmetti (Tennessee age-related minors online issues; includes preliminary-injunction posture):
https://t.co/9rqvJecEvq
So, courts have already enjoined or closely scrutinized similar laws. That’s strong “pattern evidence” that any federal version with comparable mechanics would face serious constitutional litigation.
Friendly reminder that there is no "ethical way" to use gen-AI. Not for art assets, not for coding/scripting, not even for concept art. There is no "ethical use".
It hurts the environment and uses stolen work only to be half as good as an entry-level artist/developer.
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
@kionsnuts I totally understand why you felt like you needed to say something. I'll probably be talking to them about it myself. I just think that in these situations it's better for them emotionally for those conversations to be private. I appreciate that you were willing to talk to me 💛
@kionsnuts I appreciate that there seems to be some attempt to talk with Zero about this, but I still don't know that posting publicly about it was the right way to move forwards. Though I'm not sure what I would have done either besides talked to them abt it.
@kionsnuts Definitely don't think it was cool of Zero to lie about their age, especially because it is such a breach of boundaries. But I'm not sure a public post was the appropriate response? Especially when a private conversation might have been able to resolve this.
A ceasefire is necessary but wholly insufficient. Gaza must be rebuilt. Ethnic cleansing reversed. War crimes tribunals held. And a renewed focus on a serious state solution. Palestinians cannot continue to be stateless & subject to apartheid
Before midnight arrives & it's officially 2025 for me
I truly wish for it to be blissful to everyone
Please don't forget about Palestine.. 🥺💔
As people celebrate all around the world others are suffering extreme cold..b0mbing..& starvation..
Let 2025 be the year of salvation