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

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#BadIntrernetBills are moving forward again in Congress and multiple states, so it's time to take action. Groups like Fight for the Future, National Youth Rights Association, EFF, Woodhull Foundation, CDT, and the Internet Society have been sounding the alarm, but Congress is now looking at packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation. We're organizing to keep them from sneaking these bad internet bills through.

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Illinois's new law requires operating system providers to add age verification by 2028 including open-source projects (gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com)

submitted 1 month ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/bad_internet_bills@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm going to grab my bucket of popcorn and wait to see how they think they can enforce that. Sure, anything "sold" within state limits can be forced to do that.

But fuck all stops people from grabbing ventoy and 100 different ISOs hosted outside Illinois and telling the state government to eat your asshole.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This exactly why these laws are successfully being passed, because while you're munching away at your popcorn, Fascist will just seize your ventoys, computers, and assholes out in deathcamps.
That's all it takes, inaction & compliance.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not mine. I don't live in that fascist shithole.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sure about that?

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An opinion based article in a yellow "journalism" rag, owned by US based hedge funds highlighting the fact that literally anyone who ever communicated with Epstein in any way is in the Epstein files.

And a Wikipedia article highlighting the extremely shitty and evil behaviour of some horrible police constables in one city of one province.

I'm not sure what the fuck makes you think those in any way makes Canada fascist, but you do you bud.

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Plus, the starlight tours were in 1976, 50 fucking years ago, lol!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago

these countries, and govts dont want to admit who is actually pushing this: meta, palantir, google even,,,,etc.

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

how about skip the age check and just provide these protections to all users?