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.

This community is for news stories, opinion pieces, and action links about these bad internet bills. Please help get the word out!

And if you use microblogging software like Mastodon, please also check out the #BadInternetBills hashtag.

Icon originally from Why we need to openly protest KOSA on Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki, used by permission.

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[metapost] Consider adding “law” to the community name (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 week ago by evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org to c/bad_internet_bills@lemmy.sdf.org

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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.

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'Law' would imply that the main focus is bad internet laws. While bills are much more problematic if they're passed and become laws, the main focus should be killing them while they're still just bills.

[–] evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It need not be a replacement for bills. Could be “KOSA & other Bad Internet Bills (US law for now)”. Any way to work in the word “legal” or “legislation” would give a better chance at being found in searches.