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URGENT UPDATE ON KOSA.
This is exactly how they were finally able to pass the tiktok ban after trying for 3 years. And this is exactly what I was worried about them trying as a result. Again, all info and resources for fighting KOSA are in the pinned post on my page. Plz spread the word. Even if you don't live in america, Share this with any american friends and mutuals you have. We can still fight this bill we still have a chance at stopping it just like we have in the past. The only reason it hasn't passed yet is because we keep fighting it. Don't forget that. make sure your reps and senators don't know a moment of peace
bitches be like "its a free country free speech" after being a dick and hey yea we have free speech but you also have to deal with the consequences of being a huge asshole
Life, as a Palestinian *Citizen* of Israel , in the lunatic apartheid state of Israel
That's right, "Free Gaza" graffiti, a hate crime!
Freedom of Speech naturally implies Freedom from repercussions for your speech.
How could anyone be free to speak when your speech would result in tangible consequences like violence, or loss of livelihood?
Would a gay man have freedom of speech, if his speech about gay rights were met with physical and financial consequences?
Freedom of Speech must have Freedom from Repercussions.
If you wanna protect AO3 or character ai. Or Wattpad. Or Tumblr. Or discord. Or even the right for undocumented people and minors to use the fucking Internet reblog this I swear to God. Reblog this and reblog as many KOSA posts as you can go on their website and contact your Representatives. Do it. Do it. Do it.
KOSA Won't Just Effect Americans
I got a question on my recent update post about KOSA from someone who isn't American asking what they could do to help. Which has prompted me to make this post to clarify/add something that I completely glossed over in the previous post.
KOSA won't just effect Americans.
If this bill passes, it will effect every single website and social media platform that is based in America. meaning facebook, instagram, yooutube, twitter, tumblr, AO3, fanfiction.net
And as we know, these sites are used by not just ppl in America, but also ppl from all over the world.
Which means regardless of what country you live in, if you use any of these sites, ANYTHING that you post on any of these sites or any message that you send through these sites will be subject to censorship or even strait up deletion or maybe even legal trouble if KOSA passes.
And this will also effect any American based charity website or informational/activism related websites regarding lgbtqia rights, history, history of palestine, historical archives like the wayback machine, ect.
Basically any website that has info or resources the government doesn't want you to know about
So no. being in a different country or using a VPN and pretending you're in a different country won't save/help you.
And like I said in my last post, America isn't the only place trying to pull this stunt. Last year the UK passed a bill that is very similar to KOSA and Germany and France may or may not be looking to follow suit.
So what can you do as a non American to help? simple! Spread the word anyway! if you know anyone that is American and is currently living in America, tell them about KOSA. warn them. let your online and IRL American friends know and share the resources I'll be linking again below cuz we need as many people making as much noise on this as possible and to spread awareness. this site is pretty much the only place I haven't been extreamly suppressed and largly ignored when trying to bring awareness to KOSA
Resources for learning abt KOSA
Petition and Call Script for contacting reps and senators
Sign the open letter against KOSA
Stop KOSA Movement's linktree with more actions
it’s very obvious what some liberals mean when they stress the importance of free speech and begrudgingly say they hate white supremacists but would defend their right to speech, and then turn around and berate any minorities online who rightfully point out how dangerous these people are and moan about ‘dogpiling’ and ‘cancel culture’ instead of idk - also defending those people’s right to free speech??
that time Elon felt pissed and slighted because he got moderated for saying something hateful so he went into irreconcilable debt and leveraged his other companies and made a large deal with the Saudis and Putin sympathizers just to buy the one thing in his life that was moderating him and his hateful misogynist and racist and transphobe contemporaries (and not even that thoroughly) so that he could axe moderation and shit whatever thought he wanted on to the Internet only to have to hilariously overcompensate and become a dictator of moderation of things *he* didn’t like to blunt the consequences of his chaotically evil pack-of-m80s executive brainfarts but too late to stop losing more money and employees and summoning the exacting attention of the FTC and the undoubtedly molten ire of massive industries who lost billions of value in a single day, because Elon has never thought through the philosophies, sociology, and ethics of free speech or faced the consequences of his own actions that are about to smash him in the face and moderate him harder than he’s even been moderated before
“To take just one example, consider moderation. Without moderation, platforms become a cesspit of misogyny, racial hatred and antisemitism, without any conceivable benefit for society. Holocaust denial is not free speech — it is hate speech, and at least indirectly incites discrimination or violence. It is, at best, a shallow and uninformed interpretation of free speech to want to abolish moderation.”
— What’s behind Elon’s Twitter disaster? A fundamental misunderstanding of “free speech”
Elon’s being weird again. Threatening everyone on twitter for calling his weird friends weird.
Meme Worthy.
If you asked the praise and worship members of William Ruto's government, they'd tell you that no one was harmed during the filming of our latest piece of skullduggery. But this guy is clearly bearing the brunt of Kenya's "new" public health insurance scheme, something that's not working for the timely delivery of services to dialysis insurees in particular.
We don't have a country here.
Politics 101.
As far as this no nonsense citizen is concerned, Kenya's self-serving parliament should impeach itself in its entirety rather than singling out one bad egg in the shape of DP Gachagua.
If you are on the internet and have ever been angry at other people on the internet "violating your right to free speech", then this is a good reminder