So, I've Talked About These Bad Bipartisan Internet Bills In The US Senate Before, Which All More Or

So, I've talked about these bad bipartisan internet bills in the US Senate before, which all more or less boil down to "censorship in the name of Protect The Childrens," but I think it's important now more than ever to boost efforts to fight them because, as of today (5/9/2023), there's a major push planned by the folks lobbying for these bills, and we need to push back.

Thusly, here's a propaganda poster with the URL of the main hub to fight against those bills. 

As a primer on said internet bills for those who don't know:

KOSA- Aims to create a "duty of care" towards minors that would de-facto mandate incredibly intrusive age gating via drivers' licenses or fucking face scanning to identify said minors, and would likely lead to lots of censorship. Extremely dangerous right now because the people who want it are pushing hard, and it's got a depressing amount of bipartisan support due to the Protect The Children thing shutting off people's brains.

EARN IT- Will remove Section230 for sites that supposedly let CSAM exist on their servers for too long, which might sound good until you remember the inherent difficulties in moderating that on big social media sites that means what they're asking is literally impossible and also the fact that the last time they tried something like this we got FOSTA-SESTA and its associated censorship wave. Extremely dangerous because it's passed out of committee

RESTRICT ACT- The "ban TikTok" bill that basically gives the us government carte-blanche to censor foreign sites they don't like.

STOP CSAM ACT- A similar act to KOSA and EARN IT that is pretty directly designed to weaken encryption, which is dangerous for any marginalized folks especially in a post-Roe era

Beyond the hub for action, badinternetbills.com, if you're in the US, I urge you to call your senators, especially if they're on the Commerce Committee, given that's the one currently looking at KOSA, and even if you can't, boost this to those that can.

And, as per usual with these propaganda posters, this poster is officially, for the sake of spreading it, under a CC0 license. Feel free to spread it, remix it, add links to the bottom, use it as a meme format, do what you will but for gods' sake get the word out!

TODAY IOWA HOUSE IS HEARING BILL HF2082 WHICH IF IN PLACE WOULD REMOVE CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER IOWANS IN AREAS INCLUDING HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION AND OTHER DISCRIMINATION PROTECTIONS. THIS IS HUGE AND DEVASTATING FOR ALL LGBT POPULATION IN IOWA. 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

Iowa Public Radio

Bill to remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act set for Wednesday hearing

The bill, proposed by Rep. Jeff Shipley, R-Birmingham, would remove gender identity from the state’s civil rights law. It would also add “a

The Des Moines Register

Iowa Republicans set hearing on bill removing civil rights protections for gender identity

GOP lawmakers have again proposed removing protections against discrimination for transgender people from Iowa's civil rights law. This time

KCCI

Transgender Iowans may be classified as disabled if a new bill becomes law

Transgender Iowans may be considered disabled if an Iowa lawmaker's efforts to remove civil rights protections for gender identity succeed.

Iowa Starting Line - Your Home For Iowa Politics

Iowa could be the first state to strip trans people of civil rights

Iowa could become the first state in the country to repeal civil protections for transgender people under a new bill from Rep. Jeff Shipley

Oh my gosh

This is pure evil. They say 12 employees participated in Oct 7th so they have to stop feeding the entire population????

United States Department of State

Statement on UNRWA Allegations - United States Department of State

The United States is extremely troubled by the allegations that twelve UNRWA employees may have been involved in the October 7 Hamas terrori

(U.S.) tool for emailing your senators and house representative to ask to restore funding to the UNRWA

American Friends Service Committee

Tell Congress to resume U.S. funding for life-saving Palestinian aid

"If the funding remains suspended, we will most likely be forced to shut down our operations by end of February not only in Gaza but also across the region." -UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini (source)