KOSA and other Bad Internet Bills (US-specific for now)

This community will not hit in many searches because of the naming. People searching for law, legal, policy, barrister, rules, etc may not think to search for “bills” (and might ditch the results when Buffalo Bills gets several hits).

So I suggest adding law or legal to the name. I also suggest adding the unicode char “⚖” because that is searchable.

I have added !bad_internet_bills@lemmy.sdf.org to the sidebar of !law_us@lemmy.sdf.org.

A good ananlysis of Metta's recent settlement with state Attorneys General. I

A "markup" involves amendments and a vote. So, if you're in the US, now's a great time to contact your Senators -- https://www.badinternetbills.com/ makes it easy.

As Christine Lemmer-Webber says in What happened to the fight for the internet?, bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK -- and really across the world.

Suppose we decide to make it a collective project and galvanize people around the idea of "Save fedi, fight badinternet bills!" There are enough of us here, many of us with broad networks outside fedi as well, that we could really make a difference.

What kinds of things could we do to make ourselves more effective?

There are a bunch of initial ideas in the Mastdoon thread, but suggestions welcome whether or not you've read it!