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Occasional NSFW content so pls don’t be surprised when you see porn, 18+ only

[N🏳️‍🌈 @spidermynova]

Never forget that Tom Holland’s Birthday is also the first day of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈❤️💙💜💛💚🏳️‍🌈

[The_Bladedancer @Piglin_Nerd]

That's an interesting fantasy.

Anyways, keep contacting your representatives and tell them to oppose the KIDS Act.

[Maven Politic @MavenPolitic]

If you want to keep your children off of social media, it's quite simple.

- Don't give them a smartphone.
- Implement parental controls on your router at home (they work).

And that's it.

Government action only makes it less likely for parents to take responsibility.

[That Voodoo Wolf Limbo🐾 @LimboJack_]

DO NOT LET KOSA PASS! This is like a cancer that keeps coming back. KOSA needs to stay dead and stop coming back for good. It needs to stop! Now!

[Michelle (Jax's wife) @demonbellez44]

Do not let KOSA pass, KOSA needs to stay dead and stop coming back

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

This article is paywalled.

Once “the entire internet” has been “deeply censored,” we won’t be getting it back.

The Internet created Millennials & Gen Z, & our overlords are desperate to reverse it.

Future generations aren’t meant to be thinkers.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

This is actually a perfect example of "what's the difference between a bouncer checking your ID and a website doing it?"

Identity theft.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Rep. Jim Jordan says Britain may be using its secret encryption orders to reach Americans' private data. When asked to brief Congress about it, the UK Home Secretary said no.

[Hotcheesecakes (Clippy) @BLkhoih96132]

false. You still need to give an ID or a face scan over to someone for this zero-knowledge proof. In fact Joel Thayer that argument in his posts for app store accountability act. Guess what? Now apple is doing ID age verification
https://t.co/2K6ZqjvMn9

[Conservative Ladies of America 🇺🇸 @CLADIESAMERICA]

🚨The US Senate is reportedly negotiating with the White House to get KOSA in exchange for AI preemption.

KOSA is widely supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as many "conservative" organizations, think tanks, and parental rights groups.

But KOSA doesn't protect children, it instead mandates data collection on every minor user. 🧵

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

KOSA will not make kids safer, it will not empower parents.

But it WILL help build that digital ID infrastructure and data pipeline.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

The government isn't meant to search your things without a warrant.
So they buy your data instead, and pretend that searching their own databases doesn't count.
The 3rd-Party Doctrine needs to end.
https://t.co/VRsQVDzkor

[DeepHumor @DeepHumor]

Translation: Thanks for joining the mass surveillance movement

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

Updated my U.S. Internet censorship shield law tracker to include Sens. Cruz and Wyden's JAWBONE Act.

https://t.co/7hgurAzRk0

[Sarah Colero @Sarah_Colero]

Saw this post on reddit which makes a good point about how the inability to upload ID to social media will impact the income of people who use social media to sell stuff they make, like disabled people in legislated destitution who sell their art.

[OffGuardian @OffGuardian0]

That means biometric linking, or remote kill switches for all devices, or both. Just so you know.

[Owen/Amatus🍊🔥💥(it/its) @Icyhot_w0lf]

I dont remember to consenting to my privacy being invaded like this ?!?!?

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

I'm telling you right now, I'm not uploading my fucking ID to use social media and neither should you

We need to force this fascist government to throw these authoritarian bills in the trash

If they cared about kids, they'd ban GenAI everywhere. Instead they push it in schools

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.

Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.

I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.

This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.

We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.

Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.

This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.

And they can do so in secret.

The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 Not to alarm anyone, but the UK wants to scan every photo, video, and message on your phone before it's encrypted.

Tech CEOs who refuse to comply face up to 5 years in prison.

They're calling it a safety measure. It isn't. Pre-encryption scanning means governments can see everything before you've even sent it, and they can expand what gets flagged whenever they want.

The track record here is brutal. Europe's age verification app was hacked in under 2 minutes. Over 70,000 IDs and selfies were exposed in a separate breach.

These are the people who want access to every device in the country.

Once the infrastructure exists, no government in history has ever chosen to use less of it.

Source: CSOOnline / Writer: Jamie