#censorship kills

[witchee1014]

Freedom of Thought: The Case Against Banning Books

Banning books limits our intellectual freedom and stifles our growth as individuals. In this blog post, we explore the harmful effects of book banning, from the slippery slope of censorship to the impact on education and the creative freedom of authors an

Hello there, fellow book lovers! Today, I want to talk about a topic near and dear to our hearts: intellectual freedom. As readers, we know how powerful books can be in shaping our ideas and understanding of the world. They expose us to new perspectives, challenge our assumptions, and help us grow as individuals. But what happens when some people decide that certain books are too dangerous or…

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[good-old-gossip]

Important Update!!!

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[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.

[trashbirdthoughts]

We are having an impact! Please continue to call! They are listening to us!

Don’t let up until we can strike down all bad internet bills. Your voices matter. You matter.

Making another important post about KOSA.

Please do not wait around. I will continue to advocate that these bills are struck down since they will harm our youth and LGBTQ minors. It will also strip privacy away from adults.

I do not want kids to loose access to LGBTQ+ spaces. I also don’t want adults to have to enter their private information to access it.

What is KOSA?

Kids Online Safety Act

What would it do?

KOSA uses two methods to “protect” kids, and both of them are awful.

First, KOSA would pressure platforms to install filters that would wipe the net of anything deemed “inappropriate” for minors. This = instructing platforms to censor, plain and simple. Places that already use content filters have restricted important information about suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support groups, and KOSA would spread this kind of censorship to every corner of the internet. It’s no surprise that anti-rights zealots are excited about KOSA: it would let them shut down websites that cover topics like race, gender, and sexuality.

Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by expanding the use of age verification and parental monitoring tools. Not only are these tools needlessly invasive, they’re a massive safety risk for young people who could be trying to escape domestic violence and abuse.

90+ rights groups agree that KOSA is dangerous.

Link mentioned in the video by omarbigsister. Please do anything you can to advocate against this bill.

[terven-queen]

To all trans men reading my blog out of hate/boredom/existential despair/curiosity/etc: I love you, I hope you have a good week, idk anything about y’all but wherever you are in life, I wish you healing. Please don’t believe any myth that radfems hate you: we don’t. We want to protect you and other female humans more than anything in this world. You deserve to be happy and I hope one day you are.

[sortanonymous]

Welp, here I go again...

UPDATE: KOSA was not added to the bill, losing by a resounding 85-12. We've won the battle, but the war is not over! Don't! Let! Up!

[anobjectshowguy]

I hope people in the OSC (and other fandoms in general) who are ok with or neutral about Kosa realize that not only will we lose a bunch of platforms that allow us to interact with each other (Tumblr, discord, Ao3, Wattpad, Twitter, YouTube, etc) but will also get rid of at least 80-95% of our fandom.

The OSC consists mostly of people between 13-17 who (if Kosa goes through the Senate and Houses of Representatives and gets passed as a law) will most likely no longer have access to YouTube and other social platforms which actively kills almost all the people who read and watch Object Shows!

By visiting and sharing animated shows like II or BFDI those creators make money which gives them the means to keep making their shows and paying their animators, voice actors, writers and so much more. This bill will actively get rid of most of the people who watch these shows which will cause a large loss in support and revenue for these creators and will most likely mean the end for any smaller object show.

Object show comics rely on people sharing them around in fandom spaces since they’re not animated and put on YouTube like animated object shows are. By losing these spaces and the people who support their content these creators will no longer be able to reach a large audience and get the support they need to continue their comics. This means that we will lose a lot of the comics that the OSC has!

Most of the content you see in the OSC is made by minors, which this bill will actively destroy and thus kill this fandom and many others!

So I am begging of you OSC and other communities, Please please please sign petitions, tell your senators and representatives that you don’t want this bill to pass, and tell anyone that you can reach about how this Bill is a violation of privacy and minors' rights! Re-blog anything you see with helpful information about what Kosa is and keep talking about it! We need to tell people about it so that this doesn’t go through the Senate. Remember, the final day is February 26, we don’t have that long!!!

Here’s some helpful resources:

 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

[homucifer-ryotan]

At this point saying and hashtagging #Stop Kosa isn't enough. We should doing a #Stop Chuck Schumer tag.

And by stopping him, I mean calling him as much as Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, and Steve Scalise, and politely and patiently convincing him on why Kill Online Speech Act will not be good for anyone, let alone American kids.

Schumer has been pushing for KOSA way too much (even more than Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal lately, and they were the ones who created that cursed bad internet bill in the first place) and he is mostly likely the reason KOSA is back from the dead after being gone for just about a month.

He has using Kill Online Speech Act's title of "Kids Safety" and misguided American parents to push the bill to become legal (even though there are American parents that do not want KOSA). We need not only more Americans, especially American parents to call him and convince why making KOSA a law would not only be bad for kids (and everyone else in the world) but will also make America look bad.

TLTR: Chuck Schumer looks like KOSA biggest supporter and is most likely the reason why Kill Online Speech Act got brought back from the dead even though the bill is an invasion of privacy and violates the first amendment. The more American parents call him on all the reasons why is a bad internet bill, the more likely we can KOSA can be dead for good.

Please parents and everyone else, use the google doc and other links before and keep calling Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Steve Scalise, and Chuck Schumer calmly and politely. For the sake of having free and safe internet for everyone regardless of age.

[targaryenfamilyorgy]

Reading comprehension i miss u pls come back to the people

[transsexualfiend]

I strongly encourage you to unfollow and even block people who are constantly posting callouts and bewares for every little thing. YES there are shitty people out there. I'm not denying that. But it is also not safe to be around someone who is constantly digging through other people's social medias to find "bad things", especially when their idea of "bad things" is rooted in fear and misunderstanding, rather than an actual experience with said person.

For example I followed this person who would put people's FULL ACCOUNTS on blast and even dox them and say "BLOCK AND REPORT THIS PERSON because they're a CREEP and most likely a PEDOPHILE, R4PIST, ZOOPHILE, and POSSIBLE ABUSER!!!". Now naturally you want to believe someone when they say they are the victim of something. But that isn't what's happening here. This is a case of "Your kinkyness grossed me out and your sexuality is too vulgar for my tastes, so I will be attempting to put your life and privacy at risk". For this specific example, no evidence was provided to summarize why all of these extreme words were used, so out of curiosity I went to the account and... the person was just a trans woman posting furry porn and other nsft ramblings. That is not an offense. That is not abuse or pedophilia or zoophilia. Remind me again how it's "social justice" to keep calling openly sexual trans women predatory?

And I say block these kinds of people (the ones who feel the need to play "neighborhood watch" online) because chances are, eventually they will investigate YOUR business, and you might be found "guilty" of their personal morality crime.

[g0rechan]

I dont get why people accuse killing stalking of romanticizing anything, it's a literal horror story and sang woo being extremely abusive to bum is supposed to be uncomfortable and horrifying. koongi isn't a bad guy for depicting abuse in a blunt and disturbing light because abuse is supposed to be disturbing

Idk man, I swear media literacy is dead in this day and age. Have these people read a book, watched an old movie, or listened to any music in their life?

Istg Zoomers need to stop scrolling on tik tok all day and pick up a bestseller from their local bookstore or watch any old film and see just how MANY classic stories incorporate disturbing themes and topics into their stories, with some even romanticizing it and endorsing it.

Like, are they gonna go after George R. R. Martin for writing about incest in GOT and portraying it as a normal thing since it was the medieval era? Shakespeare for writing a romance about an age gap couple? Stephen king for writing about the underage losers engaging in an -mind you, explicitly detailed- orgy scene?

Toshio Maeda? John Waters? Ralph Bakshi? Marquis De Sade? Jfc, ik anti-shippers and zoomers would have a cow if they ever discovered that guy.

Killing Stalking, sadly, isn’t the only piece of media villified for its dark topics. Media like Shoujo Tsubaki, The coffin of Andy and Leyley, Berserk, and others have sparked controversy and have been accused of“promoting” deranged actions for simply depicting dark and uncomfortable situations. They can get mad all they want but at the end of the day, Rape, incest, and child abuse are things that happen irl. And like old times, I don’t believe artists should have to put a fucking disclaimer every-time they make something.

Gen Z doesn’t live in an artistic age and it shows. It’s sad and all I can do is hope it gets better.

[hyunpic]

[rjalker]

Here's a grim inevitable prediction for this capitalist hellscape we live in:

Publishers will, inevitably, as per the law of capitalism, do away with physical books entirely.

The only books that will exist will be ebooks -- and you can't buy them, either. You don't own books, don't be silly, that's such a ridiculous idea! No, you have to pay a subscription to see the books, and pay for every minute or even word you read.

And books can be revoked at any time, and you may never see them again, with no warning or explanation.

You think if I wrote this as a dystopian novel people would figure out why shitting on the Internet Archive is bad? Like what do these people think is going to happen next? If the Internet Archive isn't allowed to lend out books they own, what do you think is going to happen next? You think these capitalist overlords of ours won't keep pushing? Make it illegal for you to let friends borrow books from you?

Capitalism is by definition always destinted to get worse. It literally cannot get better. It will always become more extreme. First they want to destroy the Internet Archive. Next they'll make it illegal for you to lend a book to a friend. Then they'll try to get rid of physical books entirely. They'll make it so the only way to read is to pay a never ending subscription for ebooks that you cannot buy.

This is the inevitable course of capitalism in regards to books and your right to actually own the property you've paid for.

They already want to make it illegal to share your Netflix password with your parents.

You think they won't make it illegal to share books with your friends?

The assault on the Internet Archive's lending library isn't about "protecting authors". It's about attacking your ownership over the things you have bought and paid for.

It's about turning books into the next subscription-only service, which you do not own, cannot buy, and have no right to keep.

And taking down the Internet Archive's lending library is literally just the first fucking step on this ladder to the dystopia I've described.

Capitalism is never-ending, never-moral, always starving for more profit over any other consideration.

If you let them argue that the Internet Archive doesn't actually own the books they've paid for, you open the way for them to claim that no one owns anything they've paid for.

[homucifer-ryotan]

This is Marsha Blackburn's reasoning for creating KOSA in a nutshell. Not realizing that not every teenager who learns about trans people online is gonna beg to get surgery (proof: I learned about trans people online when I was 15 or 16. Not once did I get a desire to change my gender, I was and still am fine with being cis). And even if they do, they can't do it without legal permission from their parents.

However since Marsha thinks she knows than better than younger trans people and their parents, KOSA will not only violate American's first amendment, but everyone else's online privacy (not just LGBT people's online privacy by the way) will be negatively affected. (Not to mention this.)

Please don't stop calling. Use everything below here, especially if you are an American.

[marzipanandminutiae]

was just at a work presentation about the history of slavery in New England. in person. room full of adult museum professionals

and the presenter (who was a very well-spoken and accomplished researcher my age or a little younger, and whom I otherwise came away with great respect for). mentioned enslaved people "unaliving" themselves/their families to escape slavery

the brainrot is spreading