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Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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More "for the children" invasive bullshit. Less privacy and more government intrusion is not what voters want out of bipartisanship.

I'm somewhat heartened by what happened with SOPA, but the ongoing attempts to remove constitutional protections "because it's the internet" are not a sign that things are going in the right direction.

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[–] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are geriatric patients who can't open a pdf trying to make laws about the internet?

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

They can open a pdf, or their Legislative Assistants can. That stuff is performative, making sure we don’t expect them to regulate huge corporations because they’re so incompetent. This is the stuff they’re interested in regulating, so they do.