KOSA and other Bad Internet Bills (US-specific for now)
Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Woodhull Foundation, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress. We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation. We're organizing to keep them from sneaking these bad internet bills through.
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Undermining the first amendment is the exact point.
It's not enough to, as Meta is not coincidentally doing, normalize right-wing lies and hatred - it's also going to be necessary, if the right is to win the proxy war they're fighting on the behalf of their moneyed class puppet masters, to shut down left-wing media entirely. But that pesky first amendment gets in the way.
And this is a significant incremental step toward overcoming that obstacle.