#StopKOSA

[lancecharleson]

Just a gentle reminder

The Heritage Foundation have outright admitted they intend for """The Kids Online Safety Act""" to be weaponized against LGBTQ+/abortion information and any form of sexual expression on the internet, that is IF the drump wins the election in November.

KOSA very recently passed the "mark up" stage in the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, and now, according to the EFF, the bill is being considered in the US House this week. So now is the perfect time to call/pester your house representatives to shoot this unconstitutional bill down for good.

If you're unsure of how to contact and make your piece known to your House representatives, here's a handy resources guide, complete with call scripts written specifically for democrats and republicans!

Make no mistake, this bill will not just affect millions of people in the states, this will also affect the wider web across the world. So for international folk, you can also sign the petition here!

I believe taking these actions may end up working, because even House representatives are beginning to doubt this bill is in anyway a good thing actually. All we have to do now is pile on the pressure!

There is no sugar coating this bill, and more and more people are starting to see it for what it is; KOSA is a trojan horse for internet censorship. Call your representatives and demand they kill it once and for all.

[r0bita]

Visit StopKOSA.com to contact lawmakers.

The form also allows you to send the letter from outside the United States.

[enigma2meagain]

Kids Online Safety Act AND “STOP CSAM” Act: SOPA/PIPA/EARN IT Act, now with Kids as the Shield!

TLDR; Congress's new bill KOSA that has an immense amount of bipartisan support will lead to internet censorship by giving all state attorney generals, even the ones in Texas and Florida, power to sue websites for "harmful" content and decide what is "dangerous" for minors, force websites to make you upload your govt ID online, and lead to widespread abuse of queer youth.

We have to fight back NOW or else we will see an internet-wide purge of any adult and queer content online, globally.

THIS BILL IS SUPPORTED BY THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL! THE LATTER IS A HATE GROUP!

What can you do about it?

1) Call your Senators. As of 5/25/2023, Your Senators are working at home, which is a good time to flood their voicemails with your concerns about this.

You can use the following website (BadInternetBills.com) to easily contact your senators, sign the petitions, and get more information about the bill, alongside other bad bills like EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act, and RESTRICT Act.

A Call Script if you need one, but sticking to the point about the Heritage Foundation and how this bill gives too much power to Attorney Generals is probably simpler for KOSA.

2) Fax your Senators. Use FaxZero to send faxes of the images above, alongside modified call scripts if needed.

3) CONTACT BIG ORGANIZATIONS, INFLUENCERS, YOUTUBERS, PEOPLE IN FANDOM, ETC. This affects everyone who uses an online space, so be sure to contact them as well via any means necessary.

A master list of the people we have so far.

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PLEASE VISIT AND SIGN PETITIONS SO WE CAN KEEP OUR ONLINE COMMUNITIES ALIVE

If you’re not aware yet, KOSA stands for “Kids Online Safety Act”. However, this bill wants to heavily censor every corner of the internet, which isn’t really keeping kids as safe as they think. Instead, it would give them less access to helpful resources (ex: LGBTQ+ Fandom site). This censorship wouldn’t be just putting filters to prevent kids from seeing NSFW content, but also LGBTQ content, mental health support, and others. Essentially, it would reduce the amount of helpful resources kids can access, as well as hinder their education of modern problems (especially if they aren’t taught in school). So, please, PLEASE, sign as many petitions as you can to STOP this bill from being passed. We need to be heard.

Edit: it also poses a risk to fanfiction sites like AO3 and Wattpad and probably also us on tumblr

Second Edit: I’ve made a post that goes a little more in depth in explaining what KOSA will do if it gets passed on HoyoLAB. See here.

[fanofsorts]

KOSA

HIII EVERYONE!! I bet yk about KOSA and it's bullshit excuse for being a transphobic law. It's restricting access to almost everything fandom, (well, everything that has controversies or anything fandom.) You're going to lose money by passing this damn bill. you're also asking for a whole riot over internet restrictions. This goddamn bill is just another plain excuse for you to pain/flat out sue companies if they even mention a small controversy. If you really want to protect kids, restrict gun access, give the trans youth their basic rights back, give the rights to have abortions back, but do not pass this damn law. We don't want that suicide rate going up, do we? X3

[cacophis]

hey guys, i just need everyone in the US to make sure theyre still calling their senators about that kosa bill. i dont care if its next month or something. if you are not an adult by (i think) november 2024, then this bill affects you as well. call them about the other bills on badinternetbills.com and if you are an adult right now, participate in every election possible (no voting fraud please) and make sure to elect people who care about democracy and gay people. thank you.

[worldrusher]

IMPORTANT

sign if u can !!!!!

https://stopkosa.com/

spread the word too ! it has and out of states option as well!!!!

[certifiedsillybilly]

Although KOSA has passed committee, the fight is not over. CALL YOUR SENATORS, SIGN THE PETITION PEOPLE!! THIS BILL WILL AFFECT YOU AND WILL HARM LGBTQ MINORS.

[friedmiu]

Let us stop all of the bad internet bills. Signed the petition on this website. https://badinternetbills.com/

[2194teddy]

I did it.

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. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

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.

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

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RAHHHH I CANT SIT STILL ON THIS

though the “parents seeing your stuff online” with KOSA is really bad, i am grateful to have a mother who has more common sense than lawmakers and knows her two sons deserve their own privacy

but i know it puts other people at risk and in danger bc they could have unsupportive family

so like here’s the link again idc if you’ve seen my post or so many others SIGN PETITIONS CALL SENATORS DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU CAN EVEN IF YOU AREN’T IN THE US IM BEGGING YOU

GRAHHHHH

[silverwolf7789]

Today is the last day to stop KOSA #stopKOSA

[letters-to-rosie]

Minutes to Midnight is seriously and envy-inducingly good! But I just want to say that, when you said "one shot of all time", my mind immediately went to you've got your demons, and darling, they all look like me. And then I got reminded of why it's my personal favorite (other than it being plain good, ofc): the summary. A well-written fic is a well-written fic, obviously, but the perfect summary really adds to the experience. Like how it catches your eye and makes your heart race because you know that an author who can write such a summary... well. They also can and probably did write a fic that blows your clothes off and turns them inside out before sending them to the hamper. It's about the anticipation.

Ahem, so anyway. I started thinking about how few words one needs to evoke an emotional response, and I wanted to share my excitement about that.

ahhhh thanks for the recommendation!!

I'mma use this as a little bit more time to gush over Minutes to Midnight just because, and then gush over you've got your demons as well because oh man. thank you for sending it my way!!

Ekko is my favorite character, but I am also a big fan of making him Worse, and I love how Minutes to Midnight does it in a way that feels so authentic. like I can extrapolate him right away from what we see in the show. and this is the only fic I can think of that really takes it to such an extreme, but again it's done so compellingly that it really feels like a Jinx version of Ekko, even if Jinx remains similarly filled with rage. there are just so many lines I love and I could list them all day but when it culminates at the end, tying together the time themes and the regret and the betrayal it's just... I love it so much

one line for fun: She’s bleeding, choking, underneath him, and he hits her, and hits her, don’t you get it, I could have done this anytime I wanted but I didn’t, I didn’t, I gave you my life and you threw it back in my face, even as she claws at him alley-cat-desperate.

every time I read it, I'm just in my room, actually screaming lol

and now for you've got your demons!!!!

there were also a ton of lines I could have pulled out but then we'd be here all day but

Dark against light - though the light has always been Ekko. i cry She chose him long before he chose her. i cry endlessly Powder never asks Vi her favorite color, because she doesn’t know what she’d do if she didn’t say the same thing Ekko did. a never-ending stream

but man it's just so stunning. like you said, I love how few words it uses to get its story across. getting to read prose that packs that sort of punch is always so special. Powder/Jinx is just so relatable and you really feel her struggles come through. her tangle of confusion and not getting things like marriage really resonated with my ace self (and I always enjoy an ace-spec Jinx). but her crush was so precious I just wanted to hug her and let her be happy with Ekko and maybe my delusional ass can imagine that they are someday in that fic universe lol

and the way the summary gets entirely recontextualized at the end????? INCREDIBLE truly a one-shot of all time. we have to make it an indefinite article now lmao

I got super lucky because the author of "you've got your demons" wrote my gift for the secret santa we just had!! that fic is called Moonlight Refuge and let me tell you if it didn't convey every emotion I wanted, which is the "I should want nothing to do with you but I can't help myself" part of timebomb, and in this one it's mutual and just fantastic. I spent like half my comment writing AHHH because the emotions were just everywhere it was a good time

also hi @cranechel we're in the corner gushing over your fic... I will leave a comment soon but wanted to answer this lol

[the-scp-list-of-ominous-threats]

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THE INTERNET IS IN DANGER! FIGHT THE KOSA BILL !

PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE THIS ANYWHERE YOU CAN !!!!!

CONTACT AND INFO MASTERPOST : https://linktr.ee/stopkosa

Read this post as well: https://www.tumblr.com/taikeero-lecoredier/702208764745515008/urgent-congress-trying-to-pass-anti-lgbt-bill Calling, sending emails, and faxing senators are important. I would also encourage anyone to make art or memes against the bill to spread the news further.

19/12/2022—————————————————–

!! Today may be our last day to push back against the bill !!

Please, please call the following senators and tell them to oppose KOSA, you have a call script right here    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit#bookmark=id.lzykeihiqg70 Maria Cantwell: ( 202) 224-3441 Pelosi : (202) 225-4965 Schumer : (202)2246542

Share this anywhere you can, as always you can find more informations and more way to contact senators in our linktree:   https://linktr.ee/stopkosa

[bump-inthe-night]

There’s no doubt that if KOSA, an internet censorship bill, passes and gives state attorney generals power over the internet, they’ll use it to censor information about:

-The genocides happening in Palestine, the Congo, and Sudan

-The LGBTQIA+ community, their resources, issues, and history

-Racial issues, history, and group resources

Here are websites where you can email and call your representatives to help fight against the bill:

Bad Internet Bills

StopKosa

EFF Action Center

Action Network

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SIGH trying not to stress over KOSA rn by doing Kaeya’s hangout quests