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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183
Fight for the Future writes:
“The controversial and unconstitutional Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is officially dead in the House of Representatives. Reporting indicates that there was significant opposition to the bill within the Republican caucus, and it faced vocal opposition from prominent progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep Maxwell Frost (D-FL).”
Evan Greer:
"KOSA was a poorly written bill that would have made kids less safe. I am so proud of the LGBTQ youth and frontlines advocates who have led the opposition to this dangerous and misguided legislation. It’s good that this unconstitutional censorship bill is dead for now, but I am not breathing a sigh of relief. It’s infuriating that Congress wasted so much time and energy on a deeply flawed and controversial bill while failing to advance real measures to address the harms of Big Tech like privacy, antitrust and algorithmic justice legislation. "
Thanks to everybody who took action ove the last year to stop this bill!
Article doesn’t say why republicans opposed it, but I guess this is one of those “broken clock” moments where they were accidentally right but for the wrong reasons.
They probably opposed the idea of safe kids, given the rest of the platform. That, or there was lobbying money.
Considering the tech industry would need to use more money to enforce the law, it would be cheaper to just buy out politicians.
Their official line is based in fears of surveillance and government overreach. My state senator Mike Lee was one of them, must have been a cold day in Hell or something.
Please don’t perpetuate “think of the children” nonsense.
I’m not, it’s the name. The joke was that they saw the concept of safe kids in the Kids Online Safety Act and never read further.
And you making fun of that is just perpetuating the problem of bullshit law names like “protect the children” or “patriot act” or “freedom blah blah safety blah blah.”
I don’t think it does in this context. Not a single person reading this thinks that this was a good bill, whereas in a Facebook comment section, that might be different.
Do you know what kosa stands for?
I’m gonna go out on a limb and go with “Can’t give Democrats anything that looks like a conservative win” for $500 Alex.
That and good old reactive contrarianism. Dems say yes, we say no.
Then why did they support it in the Senate?
Cause Senators are generally less reactionary than the house. They can usually afford to play a long game that House members can’t.
You can’t go looking for logic in hate
The reason is obvious, the Democrats wanted it to pass.