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‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship.::Washington, D.C. - This week, a bipartisan cohort of US Senators unveiled a new version of the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that aims to impose various restrictions and requirements on tech

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[-] oDDmON@lemmy.world 67 points 6 months ago

When they say, “It’s for the children”, you can rest assured, it’s not.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Its annoying because its two gross invasive chronic bad-actors competing for who can be more obnoxious.

You've got the House Republicans trying to make Being Gay Online a terrorist act. And then you've got the Zuck-club, trying to find new ways to monetize a sensor in your phone that detects every time you take a shit.

Either I accept that an agent at DHS has the right to send me to Gitmo for doing AI Art of two Jesuses kissing or I have to accept the possibility that I one day won't be able to hail a cab without giving Uber my daily cholesterol numbers.

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