#KOSA bill >:T

[katie-wants-donut]

I don't live in the USA so I'm essentially helpless to stop KOSA but those who can please do.

[olberic]

i hate the usa i hate that stupid country i hate its veto power and its two party system and its control over the internet and its overwhelming cultural influence and its military. fucking sucks that we’re expected to know all of its stupid little states. people won’t shut up about the election EVEN WHEN I HAVE EVERY POSSIBLE AMERICAN POLITICAL TAG BLOCKED.

[meowdance]

We still have time. Do your thing and REBLOG this post, likes don’t do shit.

GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

(IMPORTANT UPDATE: Kosa will not necessarily pass on the 26th. It only has the support to pass in Senate, and we STILL HAVE TIME. That being said, time is of the essence.)

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

Reblog if you think KOSA is unfair and shouldn't be anyone's problem -- including the adults ALL OVER THE DAMN EARTH forced to face the mass censorship it causes because "think of the American Children!".

Reblog if you support internet activism and Palestine.

Reblog if you hate fascism or censorship, and don't want actually serious and helpful conversations censored on the internet.

Reblog if you value the internet in any way at all whatsoever.

CHECK THIS PETITION, TOO! https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-kosa?recruiter=1331807538&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&recruited_by_id=57368c40-d0fd-11ee-98f7-2175430f819f&share_bandit_exp=initial-36809664-en-US

(Also, please reblog with at least "stop kosa" as a tag and not "kosa". I made the mistake of not adding just "kosa" as a tag...)

We won't let this stand any longer. Let's start a riot and get this trending.

[super-firepaw119]

KOSA update 7/23/24:

Senator Schumer is growing desperate, He plans to bring two terrible bills—KOSA & COPPA 2.0, to the floor for a procedural vote as soon as this Thursday.

Proof: https://x.com/omaseddiq/status/1815706689619816860?s=46&t=yFN9Hf-JJHJ9o67VUawUqg

Spread this around. Do not panic—Call your two Senators & tell them to vote ‘No’ to both KOSA & COPPA 2.0!!

Keep calm & keep fighting!!

[the-rad1o-demon]

Reminder to keep calling your Senators and not to let up, not even for a fucking second!! This bill will expire next week, so let's give it everything we got until this fucking bill is six feet under.

In this document, there are call scripts you can use when calling your Senators!

We're almost there!! Just one more week!

[certainunkownlove2]

I understand why people are panicking that's a natural reaction to things and being anxious but ya'll please remember if it does end up passing the senate we still have time to prevent it from passing the house. The bill passing the senate does not mean it's over and saying were cooked does not help same for giving up and t's really annoying me lol. There's a reason why it was pushed back like a month ago and there is more opposition in the house from what i've heard take that as a sign and go to stopkosa.com spread for information to make people more aware!

yes, please spread the news about kosa

[love-ha-fge]

KOSA UPDATE. THE CONTENT OF THE BILL HAS BEEN UPDATED TO SPECIFICALLY TARGET QUEER CONTENT. PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids

[marble-anime]

Sharing for awareness! I’d appreciate if you’d share as this is actually serious and no one is speaking on it

In 2 days a bill is going to be voted on in congress called KOSA.

The KOSA law and EARN IT act could get Anime and Manga banned in the US. Due to it having “gore and violence”

It’ll also ban fanfics and any mature content.

The bill is being disguised as a way to protect minors but it will ban all of this for ALL of us. The bill states if you confirm your age you can view it, but the more you read it says that if an adult views it it will flag it and get the content taking down.

To stop this please please look at the links I’m sharing. The first link allows you to email your state representatives! Please make your own message so it won’t go to spam! It can be short (please stop KOSA)The second link is a petition and after if you submit your phone number you will get a call that will connect you to all your representatives offices, you will get a script all you have to do is read off what is said.

Let them know you are NOT okay with this! Last year we just BARELY got this bill denied. Congress is trying again this year. SPEAK UP!

Please please take this seriously. If this passes. The anime community will be DONE.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids For emailing state reps!

https://www.badinternetbills.com/ For calling state reps! PLEASE this is most effective

^^this

i got into anime and manga maybe 3 or 4 years ago and my home situation wasn’t the best back then. anime and manga became my escape from reality and writing/reading fics for my favorite characters has become a comfort to me. i would hate to see it all go.

contacting the reps through your email and phone number is really easy. like this person said, the message can be short and the call is scripted so you don’t really have to come up with anything on your own.

if your confused about what this bill is about, pearlmania500 made a good tiktok about it which I’ll leave below.

[socialjusticefail]

This article talks about what tech will do if this this bill will pass.

[jackatronics]

⚠ STOP THIS BULLSHIT!!! ⚠

EARN IT AND KOSA ARE BILLS THAT ENDANGER OUR RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, THEY DO NOT HELP IN WHAT THEY CLAIM TO SOLVE, THEY AIM FOR MASS CENSORSHIP, AND THEY ENDANGER MINORITIES SUCH AS ONLINE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITIES, SEX WORKERS, ETC.

The KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) and the EARN IT Act, are U.S laws that if passed, will fucking wreck this country more than it already has.

Look, this account is not a political account, and I do not wish to entirely associate this art/reblog account with politics but this is an exception because it NEEDS to be said.

I'm going to try my best to keep it simple, and I will not get to FULLY elaborte on everything, I'm just letting you guys get the overall gist of it (check sources and links below!!!)

In a nutshell, these acts wish to remove encryption and allow everything you send, recieve, and look at to be viewed and surveilanced to an unethical and unconstitutional degree. Both of these acts claim to help children stay safe online, when really it will do the opposite. It will lead to mass surveilance and censorship online, and a lot of LGBTQIA+ content will also get censored unfairly. EARN IT, specifically, would actually make it MORE DIFFICULT for child sexual predators to get caught, because the pushed surveilance does not follow the 4th Amendment, making evidence gathered by these means unusable in an actual court.

I'm going to link more sources below for y'all to both read more about it from people who can elaborate better, and to help push back AGAINST KOSA AND EARN IT.

[yeetathebeeta]

Stop Kosa Bill

The Kosa Bill has been delayed and wil be reviewed March 13-16. But this battle isn't over yet, keep fighting, we still an not let this bill pass!

(Oh my god you don't know reviled I am it's delayed! T-T)

[starryyskies]

Hey sorry to sound all soapboxy to you but I believe it would be in your best interest to know about a bill call KOSA that is an internet censorship bill that will affect countless websites, restrict LGBT content and target NSFW material.

It hasn’t passed yet but if you live in the US you can use this site to contact your reps. This site also has a pre written email to send to your representatives.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids

Hey thanks for the heads up! I have a feeling it won’t really pass lol

[the-peculiar-bi-tch]

CW: extreme transphobia, political violence, Don't Say Gay, trans genocide, 2024 election

I was made aware today of the GOP's "Mandate for Leadership" document today, which is a giant policy wishlist for conservatives and business execs for the first 180 days of a Republican presidential election victory in 2024. What they want is beyond extreme. This article from Dame Magazine covers it, and I'll put it below the break because it really is as bad as the CW makes it out to be. tldr, conservatives quite literally want all trans people locked up or dead, if you're an adult in the U.S. and can vote, vote blue no matter who. idc what arguments you make, you vote blue to stop this from happening.

Conservatives are trying to build off the anti-woke culture war that has proven broadly unpopular and has shot the leg off DeSantis' campaign. Some of the biggest conservatives policy orgs and think tanks are pushing this and it is the most threatening, unconstitutional shit imaginable.

They are fully embracing the "unitary executive theory", where the president has total power over the executive department and its agencies (anything labelled "Department," the EPA, etc) with no Congressional oversight whatsoever. It's a ridiculous, flatly illegal doctrine to try and act within, but conservatives have shown they do not care about the law and are going to do whatever the hell they want if they can. They want to use this total power over the executive branch to politically influence the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the courts into prosecuting political enemies (revenge for grand juries charging Trump with well over 100 felonies over crimes he provably committed) and forcing blue states to turn over all trans people they are sheltering for prosecution. Prosecution of what? Anything. Sex crimes applied to trans people existing in public, whether in person or online, because "what if a minor sees this perversion?"

States like California and Maryland have enacted safe harbor laws, meaning any trans people fleeing a red state, say, Texas, will not be extradited back to Texas for wearing makeup around a child. It means that these states will not recognize efforts by other states to essentially kidnap trans people. This document shows that conservatives want to use a political DOJ to threaten district attorneys in those states into turning over any and all trans people they're harboring. Stuff like this would be made way easier with KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act, S.1409), requiring Internet service providers to share a lot for personal data with the federal government. The Republican Senator who introduced it, Blackburn, has said it would be used to target trans people. While I have reached out to both my senators about this and Warnock and Ossoff have both told me they are no votes, it's still far too widely supported in the Senate. (Btw fuck Sen. Blumenthal, he's been on this anti-privacy bent for years and I hope he gets primaried and made completely irrelevant just for introducing this bill.)

What does this mean for trans people in 2024? Simple. If you value trans rights, and you are eligible to vote in the U.S., vote for the Democratic Party.

Greens stand less of a chance in defeating any Republican presidential nominee than I stand swimming across the Pacific. 2024 cannot be a "I don't like either party" election, it cannot be a "both sides" election because while I curse Blumenthal and other Democrats for going along with stuff like KOSA, they are not actively genocidal and many rail against the attacks people like DeSantis and MTG have levied against us. This cannot be a "let's just do a revolution" election cycle because yeah you're just going to organize a proletarian revolution in 400 days, overthrow the U.S. government, and install a functioning proletarian-focused queer-protecting government without it immediately backfiring from any number of potential fuckups that come with revolution.

Vote Democrat. Tell your friends to vote Democrat. Vote down the ballot. Phone bank, canvas, hell join a campaign. I made calls in 2020 with a nonprofit to get out votes for GA senate runoffs, those orgs were vital in those campaigns. When it comes to political pragmatism for this issue, the 2024 presidential election is the best way to affect the change we want.

Trans people cannot have our rights stripped this completely from us because a few hundred thousand people in a few key states go "oh yeah I like cornell west, my vote doesn't matter anyways so what's the harm voting third-party?"

“Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”

There's your fucking harm.

[augustinewrites]

Okay so I’m mass sharing this because America is falling apart and no one is speaking on this!

In 2 days a bill is going to be voted on in congress called KOSA.

The KOSA law and EARN IT act could get Anime and Manga banned in the US. Due to it having “gore and violence”

It’ll also ban fanfics and any mature content.

The bill is being disguised as a way to protect minors but it will ban all of this for ALL of us. The bill states if you confirm your age you can view it, but the more you read it says that if an adult views it it will flag it and get the content taking down.

To stop this please please look at the links I’m sharing. The first link allows you to email your state representatives! Please make your own message so it won’t go to spam! It can be short (please stop KOSA)The second link is a petition and after if you submit your phone number you will get a call that will connect you to all your representatives offices, you will get a script all you have to do is read off what is said.

Let them know you are NOT okay with this! Last year we just BARELY got this bill denied. Congress is trying again this year. SPEAK UP!

Please please take this seriously. If this passes. The anime community will be DONE.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids For emailing state reps!

https://www.badinternetbills.com/ For calling state reps! PLEASE this is most effective

!! very important !!

[pretty-toru]

SPREADING AWARENESS BECAUSE NO ONE IS SPEAKING UP! Please please share!

In 2 days a bill is going to be voted on in congress called KOSA.

The KOSA law and EARN IT act could get Anime and Manga banned in the US. Due to it having “gore and violence”

It’ll also ban fanfics and any mature content.

The bill is being disguised as a way to protect minors but it will ban all of this for ALL of us. The bill states if you confirm your age you can view it, but the more you read it says that if an adult views it it will flag it and get the content taking down.

To stop this please please look at the links I’m sharing. The first link allows you to email your state representatives! Please make your own message so it won’t go to spam! It can be short (please stop KOSA)The second link is a petition and after if you submit your phone number you will get a call that will connect you to all your representatives offices, you will get a script all you have to do is read off what is said.

Let them know you are NOT okay with this! Last year we just BARELY got this bill denied. Congress is trying again this year. SPEAK UP!

Please please take this seriously. If this passes. The anime community will be DONE.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids For emailing state reps!

https://www.badinternetbills.com/ For calling state reps! PLEASE this is most effective

Thanks so much for sharing, I've linked the websites down below for easier access!!

For emailing state reps!

For calling state reps!

[just-jordie-things]

The KOSA bill has passed the markup. However we have a MONTH before it goes to the senate. We have time to make some noise and express our concerns.

The whole month of august please call as much as you can and email and sign as many petitions as possible.

If this passes any form of gore or sexual content will be banned in America.

I’m talking Manga, anime, movies, tv shows, music, fanart, fanfiction.

They are ESPECIALLY targeting fanfiction and lgbtq content.

This is absolutely serious and we have got to speak out even more than before.

Once again I’m leaving some links to help.

https://resist.bot/petitions/PHJDYH

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

thank you for continuing to spread info on how to shut this down 🫶 i appreciate it greatly and i’m sure many others do as well!!