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3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.::The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For whatever reason, when I hear KOSA, it conjures up SOPA and PIPA. Feels like it's been so long since any of these came up but I guess existential-level threats to internet content and privacy never fully die~

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

they will keep trying until the most egregious censorship passes

the system is broken, rebel or your internet is done for.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

It's because this bill is the evolution of those bills.