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Original Title: A dangerous bill (KOSA) that will remove women’s rights, pro choice, liberal, queer, black history and other content from the internet and enforce parental monitoring of under-18 accounts has a high chance of passing in September. Sign the petition, call, email and text your senators to stop this
This is REALLY important, Congress are trying to pass a bill called Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) in September. It gives power to any Governor to ban any content they deem unsafe for kids. If social media companies don’t comply, they’ll be sued. Some conservative Dems and Republicans like Ted Cruz are cosponsoring this bill with bipartisan support (22 R, 21 D cosponsors in the Senate). Only a few Democrats like Maxwell Frost are advocating against it,
No doubt this bill will be used to ban LGBTQIA+, feminist, black history, liberal, abortion and other progressive content. The Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups are praising this as it would ban aforementioned content. Since most social media companies are based in the US, this will be disastrous. It will also require us to upload IDs to use the internet and ban minors from making accounts without parental monitoring.
Outrage is building but not enough, the Senate will talk about this bill next month. Call, text and email your senators (links below) and tell them about how awful this bill is and how they would lose not only your vote but a HUGE portion of the youth + female vote.
Petitions to sign:
More on KOSA:
Call, email and text senators in your area:
Organize protests if you can (and we should). We CANT let this pass at all. Let’s stop it!