Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
I fail to see how ensuring platforms don’t algorithmically push negative content on children, or how enforcing better default privacy options for children, is remotely a bad thing. As with most of what the Electronic Farce Foundation publishes today, this article was a word salad of excuses without reasoning.
Also find it pretty ironic and hypocritical that there’s a sudden outcry against “censorship” but just a couple years ago, it was apparently a tHrEaT to oUr dEmOcRaCy if anybody expressed any sort of skepticism over the narrative because tRuSt the sCiEnCe.
I fail to see how ensuring platforms don’t algorithmically push negative content on children, or how enforcing better default privacy options for children, is remotely a bad thing
See, this is the propaganda part. ‘Protect the kids!’ Of course thats a good sounding thing! Let’s put good sounding thing into law and not worry about any possible downsides.
Any legislation presented as being for “protecting children” needs to be immediately met with skepticism.
It’s almost always a cover for egregious government interference in personal life, which sucks since there really is damaging content out there made on purpose… the only thing you can really do is pay more attention to your own kids
Your second paragraph is spot on, but you’ll never get those people to accept the damage they caused. Bringing it up just stirs up shit. Sucks.
I dunno who it was who decided that legislation should parent their kids instead of them having to do it themselves, but if I ever find them I’m going to slap the shit out of them.
Probably the same ones that decided that teachers should parent their kids.
i told ya they were going to try again until they succeeded.
the solution is deposing those people, not trying to fight off every attempt until they win.
Nice, that means in the future only browsing with webcam on and ID card possible.
Not necessarily. I wouldnt be down for that, don’t get me wrong, but when there are dedicated “children’s account” options on a service, they should be legally exempt from algorithmic manipulation. Sure, without ID validation, that can be bypassed but that would be 100% on the parents. It’s not their fault they don’t know how these platforms push propaganda (of all sorts) on kids via algorithms, but it would be their fault if they didn’t ensure their kid was running on a kids account.
Forget about children ever seeing any atheist content again. The religious wackos will definitely make sure that they can brainwash children with stupid religious fiction.
The religious people are also saying that the atheist wackos will brainwash kids with atheist fiction
What if I don’t have kids? I don’t need these rules.
So, you’re so stupid as to not be able to understand that children grow up and run the world. And you’ll still be alive… So, their choices WILL affect you, your family, loved ones, friends, community, nation, etc…
This legislation makes the online environment for children worse, so it’s a moot point; whether you think it’s the government’s place to take a proactive stance on this or not, it’s still bad either way.
So…I don’t get a life??? I have to live in such a way that other people can have a life but I don’t get one?
Sounds like a dictatorship to me. PASS!
Found the kid that didn’t grow up right ^^^^
And you’re so stupid as to not be able to understand that it’s your responsibility to decide what your kids should and should not have access to, not the government’s, especially when the only tools they have to do so just make it harder for the rest of us to get access to those things at best? ‘Won’t some one please think of the children’ has worn pretty goddamned thin: think of your own children, they’re your responsibility, not mine and not Congress’.
