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Jake Johnson at Common Dreams:

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Trade Commission vowed in his job pitch to end current chair Lina Khan's "war on mergers," a signal to an eager corporate America that the incoming administration intends to be far more lax on antitrust enforcement. Andrew Ferguson was initially nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a Republican commissioner on the bipartisan FTC, and his elevation to chair of the commission will not require Senate confirmation.

In a one-page document obtained by Punchbowl, Ferguson—who previously worked as chief counsel to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)—pitched himself to Trump's team as the "pro-innovation choice" with "impeccable legal credentials" and "proven loyalty" to the president-elect. Ferguson's top agenda priority, according to the document, is to "reverse Lina Khan's anti-business agenda" by rolling back "burdensome regulations," stopping her "war on mergers," halting the agency's "attempt to become an AI regulator," and ditching "novel and legally dubious consumer protection cases." Trump announced Ferguson as the incoming administration's FTC chair as judges in Oregon and Washington state blocked the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons, decisions that one antitrust advocate called a "fantastic culmination of the FTC's work to protect consumers and workers." According to a recent report by the American Economic Liberties Project, the Biden administration "brought to trial four times as many billion-dollar merger challenges as Trump-Pence or Obama-Biden enforcers did," thanks to "strong leaders at the FTC" and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.

Donald Trump’s pick of Andrew Ferguson to lead the FTC is a boon to corporate oligarchs and transphobes.

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To be honest, the "What parent would want their child’s private data in the hands of strangers?" part should also be said to Democrats too.

Also Elon is the last person to say he wants kids and teenagers to be safe online when he has the likes Nick Fuentes on Twitter saying creepy stuff like "your body my choice" and didn't ban Fuentes off Twitter after he said that the age of consent shouldn't exist (I am not kidding look it up, Fuentes was being serious).

So yeah please call and/or email because KOSA isn't any good this week.

KOSA Is being pushed

There is a HUGE push to pass KOSA right now at the end of the year.!

Really Quick summary: Senators Blumenthal and Blackburn "rewrote" KOSA to appeal to the right more. They worked with ELON MUSK to push this bill in order to "protecting kids". Tomorrow, many organizations are bringing groups of parents to speak to Congress. This is coming at a time when the FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson admitted their agenda is straight transphobia:

There are TWO ways KOSA can be passed right now. Either from the House of Representatives or by attaching it to an end-of-year spending bill. They will try both.

Republican leadership(Scalise and Johnson) are surprisingly what is stopping thia from going through. They wont admit it out loud but they dont like the bill.

WE NEED TO PUSH BACK NOW!! Those phones need to ring OFF THE HOOK tomorrow while they meet with their parents.

So call, call, and call/email/ and fax your House Representative and tell them to vote no to KOSA TOMORROW! this is an all-hands-on-deck situation.

Here are the call tools:

FFTF Call tool that should cycle you through different reps:

Find your Representative here:

In addition to these House reps, call these reps as well, they are leaders and are very important regarding the fate of this bill:

Republican:

⭐Steve Scalise

        (202) 225-3015

⭐Mike Johnson

        (202) 225-2777

Democrat:

⭐Hakeem Jeffries

            (202) 225-5936

Ayanna Pressley

(202) 225-5111

Ilhan Omar

(202) 225-4755

Jamaal Bowman

(202) 225-2464

Cori Bush 

(202) 225-2406

Here are scripts to use for the calls:

DEMOCRATIC VERSION:

I am urging you not to include KOSA in any end of year spending bills and to keep it from passing. With Trump ascending into office, this bill will give the FTC power to control speech online. FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson just came out with an agenda that will focus on going after online platforms for displaying LGBT content. With KOSA, this would only give them and republican attorney generals even more power to remove any content they deem “harmful”, which we know is an excuse to censor everything they don’t like. Suicide rates will skyrocket for marginalized youth with this bill restricting content.

200 human rights and LGBT organizations total came out in an open letter opposing it. The ACLU is against it. Hundreds of thousands of Gen Z are against it. We know the harms of social media, and we do not want this. Major news have reported that this bill actively harms kids. 

The rewritten bill is still very dangerous, and giving any more power to Donald Trump to silence people he deems his “enemies” is a horrible move. With people like Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk supporting KOSA, this is enough of a sign to not push it forward. 

Multiple experts agree this bill pushes age verification, even with the new language. KOSA hands more private data of children to third party companies. The updated language threatens encryption. How is this protecting children’s privacy?  KOSA actively harms kids. Do NOT support this bill. Thank you.

REPUBLICAN VERSION: (pretend you’re GOP)

I am urging you VOTE NO on KOSA, the Kid’s Online Safety Act. Even with the rewritten language, this is still a dangerous bill that will harm children and censor pro-life content on the internet. Even with the new language, this bill still gives state Attorney Generals power to censor any content they don’t like. This bill would be weaponized by unelected bureaucrats to censor Americans, why else do you think Democrats are pushing it so hard? Why else would Biden and Kamala Harris support it?

Many news organizations have reported that this bill actively harms kids by exposing their private data to strangers under the guise of protecting them. We need to hold Big Tech accountable, but KOSA is not the solution.

The bill let any state attorney general and the FTC to sue any website for “harmful” content. Do we really want blue state lawyers deciding what can and can’t be allowed online? Big Tech is already censoring us. That’s why they support KOSA. This is massive government overreach. We need a bill that actually protects children by creating better security measures instead of bringing about more censorship to everyone. 

Multiple experts agree this bill pushes age verification, even with the new language. KOSA hands more private data of children to third party companies, which would put them in further danger. This also exposes everyone else. How is this protecting children’s privacy? What parent would want their child’s private data in the hands of strangers like this? KOSA is actively putting kids in danger. It censors our freedom of speech. Do NOT support this bill. Thank you.

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Please make as many calls as possible today and tomorrow; you are not powerless; you have a voice, and in these times, it's more important than ever to use it;

I also ask that you share this around as well, make as many people around aware of this as possible. Thank you.

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The Grand Knockout Tournament in 1987 was Prince Edward's big foray into TV production. It was a one off televised special based on the popular slapstick game show It's a Knockout. The event featured Edward, Princess Anne, and the Duke and Duchess of York as team captains. Dressed in medieval costumes, they oversaw a wide range of celebrities - from British soap stars to John Travolta - as they participated in childish games, with the goal of raising money for charity. The Duke of Gloucester was also involved as a judge.

Despite strong viewing figures and £1.5 million raised for charity, the event was widely mocked. The costumes and silly games were seen as humiliating for the royal family and marked a turning point in press coverage. Long before the War of the Waleses, royals were now fair game for ridicule on the front pages of newspapers.

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