For The Record, If Kosa Gets Passed, We Have To Be Obnoxiously Queer

For the record, if Kosa gets passed, we have to be obnoxiously queer

Like, just post gay/genderqueer shit all over the place

If they’re gonna censor it all at least make it annoying for them to have to do so

And hey, maybe we can flood the websites so much that they have to take down websites, and apps. We could end the internet in one big colorful explosion

Like a sonic rain boom

(Also don’t mind me while I be obnoxiously pan over here, it’s mainly to spite the people on Among Us who want me voted out “bc they’re gay”)

For everyone panicking, it has NOT become a law. It has passed its first round and has been put into a markup stage

For more information on who to contact and what exactly the process is for something to pass into law, go HERE^

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Communications Workers of America

The Trevor Project Workers Speak Out Against Anti-Union Attacks and Blatant Mistreatment, Fight to Secure Nonprofit’s Core Mission to Suppor

Following The Trevor Project’s decision to lay off nearly 12% of bargaining unit employees, Trevor Project workers and members of CWA Local

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sick and tired, yet again another law that will kill privacy...

another trojan horse disguised under the name of "protection of children"

this one is Bill 1199 or "Stop CSAM"

Center for Democracy and Technology

The STOP CSAM Act Threatens Free Expression and Privacy Rights of Children and Adults

Last month, Senator Durbin introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatmen

The STOP CSAM Act Threatens Free Expression and Privacy Rights of Children and Adults

"Last month, Senator Durbin introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023 (STOP CSAM Act). While the goal of the bill — to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse online — is great, the bill’s approach is seriously flawed.

The STOP CSAM Act will make children less safe, at the expense of the privacy and free expression rights of children and adults alike. By significantly increasing the liability risk that online services would face for hosting, transmitting, or otherwise enabling user-generated content, the bill increases the likelihood that these services will report and remove substantially more speech than the illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM, also referred to in law as “child pornography”) currently in scope of federal law. It will also make prosecution of perpetrators of child exploitation crimes harder, because law enforcement will have to search a haystack of reports for a needle, wading through innumerable useless reports to find reports of actual CSAM."

Wanting to protect children from SA is a noble and moral thing, but it should not come at the expense of privacy and security.

What to do is; spread the word, reblog this post, feel free to copy-paste resources from here too!

SIGNABLE PETITION

Fight for the Future

Defend encryption: SAY NO to STOP CSAM

New legislation introduced in Congress would undermine secure encryption and threaten our free speech online.

More Resources

Fight for the Future

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The NDAA is No Place for Sweeping Internet Legislation Like the STOP CSAM Act

The STOP CSAM Act of 2023 would undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and push internet companies to take down lawful user speec

Internet Society

Encryption Keeps Kids Safe Online - Internet Society

EARN IT Act, the STOP CSAM Act, and the Kids Online Safety Act erode encryption, the best tool we have for keeping our kids’ information pri

This bill the most likely one to pass bc of its deceptive name, we cannot let them gut encryption, and gut Section 230!

Stop KOSA Helpful Links

Stop KOSA Helpful Links

These are two different links with ways on how we can help stop KOSA.

Petition to help russian trans people to seek asylum in EU easier

action.allout.org

No more closed doors for Russian transgender people

Severely impacting transgender lives, Russia's new law stops trans people from changing gender markers, getting affirming surgery, or access

In July 2023, the State Duma passed another law banning all aspects of legal and medical transgender transitions in Russia. This legislation renders it impossible for individuals to legally change their gender marker in documents, pursue gender-affirming surgeries, or access hormonal therapy. Furthermore, for Russian authorities, banning transgender transitions is a "question of national security".