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3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet. (jezebel.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 15 points 9 months ago

I can't wait for porn to be blurred out crotches and boobs with little stars instead of nipples. Darn!

It was perfect! In case you are reading this in the future next couple of years, back in 2024, you just typed a few words on the search engine and you too could witness excellent quality videos of various men and women having fun with their body parts in ways that you didn't even think were possible, and are too weak to do if you had anyone to do them with. We are talking penises, mouths, vaginas, balls and boobs and their various combinations.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Have these people nothing better to do.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Serious question: If this bill passes, how will the US Internet be meaningfully different than China's Internet, if it's used to censor stuff the government doesn't like?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well... The internet was originally built on decentralized communications. We may have to transition more heavily to the darkweb, any attempts to block that would be an attack on freedom of speech.

Humanity seems to progress/regress in waves. We'll try to ride this out, and some of us will use ingenuity to make a taller ladder vs the govt's taller walls. They can never keep pace.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why not Lemmy / Mastodon / etc.? IDK if we need "dark web". We just need to decentralize.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Isps could take them down. Maybe requiring each site to state what it's using it for and forcing requirements down. If China can do it, U.S could follow too.

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

I say dark web only in protection in transit of important/forbidden info.

I realize that was confusing, but yeah, any decentralized system should be applicable, just needs to add protecting the data while traveling, and who is looking at it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nobody defended communities discussing illegal things, then nobody defended communities discussing questionable legal things, then nobody defended disfavored things like firearms channels/YouTubers, now it's your turn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I don't have enough money to play the game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Humanity doesn't learn and this is how it works at all times, so I'm confused whether your comment is as useful as it can be or completely useless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's futile I'm afraid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Probably something to do with healthcare costs and preventing people from taking FMLA for babies

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kids Online Safety Shouldn’t Require Massive Online Censorship and Surveillance: 2023 Year in Review

EFF link - they’re fighting this for us

Link to check out the merch they have for donors. Cherish my shirt from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oo very nice. I might have to donate money for that shirt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

As an aside, they always say to edit your message to your representatives. What do you say?

[–] [email protected] 155 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  1. Snap
  2. X
  3. Microsoft

Saved you a click

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

Fucking canonical, snap just keeps getting worse and worse.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, some of the shittiest tech companies in the world teaming up with the dumbest morons in existence to enforce dumb politics and censor free information, trying to turn the open internet into a shit hole of censorship like China. Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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It could also be Norwegian, meaning "cup snails."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ha it totally IS how one would write the Kiwi pronunciation for Bradley. Didn't even occur to me. I'm just a Brad that likes bread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Violence is an answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This will probably what will happen.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 months ago

The biggest take away from all this is

A handful of tech companies manage and control the majority of public information.

A handful of politicians who are in bed with the same corporations and they are all willing to control that information for their own personal religious beliefs

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (2 children)

SnapChat, Microsoft, and twitter.

Those are the three.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’d say to boycott them but you already probably have if you’re here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Snapchat and X, definitely. But microsoft is unavoidable for work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But microsoft is unavoidable for work.

I've worked in fintech almost 10 years and don't recall a single windows machine, let alone a single piece of necessary windows service. Even the sales and marketing people use macs at least

Google and AWS are much harder to with without.

E: also just to note you can personallyboycott tech you're forced to use by work, and even comparing about the company's ethics at work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

True, my it department has told me no Linux or libreoffice. One of the it guys wasn’t happy about that rule either

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Glad I only use 1 of those and even than just for my boring job.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In the fall, Jezebel reported how a bipartisan bill ostensibly meant to protect children from harmful content online could be weaponized by Republican politicians to censor everything from LGBTQ+ content to sex ed info to abortion resources—and for all internet users, not just children.

This is so dystopian

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Always assume the worst case scenario. This bill is another version of the "Patriot Act" that extends to whatever your dumbass state wants it to ban.

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