#down with internet censorship!!

[xxstarlight-lifexx]

A linktree I found to sites that hold information/resources to help stop KOSA

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

[cherryg]

Hey guys as you may have heard Ao3 has been down because of an attack against the website. I don’t know who’s behind it but I’ve been hearing somethings that Russia is behind all of this but I really don’t know.

I feel very violent rn

I just hope the volunteers are ok and are finding ways to defend against these attacks because this is especially hard for them and it sucks that they have to deal with people like this. Remember that if ao3 comes back up remember to donate and thank the volunteers for putting up with this and fixing this website for us.

Also congress is currently debating on bills to try and make kids safer which sounds good right?

What they don’t tell you is that these bills involves a lot of censorship and privacy issues.

Some child safety groups like design it for us might be currently lobbying for bills like KOSA (KidsOnlineSafetyAct)

This bill would give more power to politicians to decide what people could see and may also have age verification as well

I’ve also been hearing that they could put this bill in a package along with the EARNIT act

Please guys call your senators and representatives to oppose these censorship bills

Email them, call them , fax them! There is also petitions and link trees you could sign as well

And if you guys want more information check out my pinned post where I talk more about these bills and what’s been happening

https://linktr.ee/stopkosa

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnBEcS6dZh6SKxRg5mmak4pD3fHaDV7Hr2-5N63J1Dof0EYQ/viewform

[whitefangz]

my controversial opinion is some of you overemphasize the importance of a certain fanfiction website

[a-really-big-cat]

Can't take the people calling the tiktok ban "censorship" seriously. What, exactly, do they think is being censored? What ideas do they think are being suppressed?

[woolydemon]

this site wins by doing absolutely nothing

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Just remembered the time I saw a meme someone had made, and they'd used a photo of the OJ Simpson Bronco chase, and I reblogged with something along the lines of "Bitch, did you use the a fucking photo of the OJ Simpson bronco chase for a MEME?"

To which the OP replied with "DON'T CALL ME A BITCH."

And. Like.

BITCH.

[ithoughtuweregoingforahug]

neeeed people to stop censoring themselves to appease some sort of algorithm. where are your principles!!!

[sparklywaistcoat]

gotta love the current internet doublespeak/censorship nexus these days. like, you can have an entire four-minute song that is literally about nothing but drugs and sex, but do they censor the whole song? noooooo, they only clip out the half-second that it takes to say the name of the one named drug.

[xipe-slayground]

As a proud internet pirate I just wanna say fuck Restrict Act Bill 686. You're not keeping me from using a VPN, P2P and torrent pages.

[toughtink]

wish people would stop saying cosplay is banned in florida

[boop-le-snoot]

of course you’re into censorship 💀

still twirling your mustache all by yourself in the corner?

You are trying to bully me and you're doing it very badly because I have no idea what even am I supposed to feel bad about. If you're going to send someone hate on the internet at least do it in an understandable way bro 😭 hell, I'll take a good old ‘kys’ over this any day!

[wreckedhoney]

^^ "coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse"

not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)

[iri-desky]

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.

(Update: this is outdated, but we should still talk about it. Get Kosa trending.)

[digitalinterfacer]

oh my god end your life

[somany-fandoms-solittle-time]

Can we please just go back to using language like adults? How are we gonna have a serious conversation about REAL LIFE ISSUES if we're not allowed to SAY THE WORDS (and I don't mean slurs used against marginalized people.... You don't get the n-word pass for being a debate lord)

I'm not just talking about kink shit either!! Or just swear words. We should be able to say the CLINICAL TERMS for body parts without someone clutching their pearls.

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

[16sundayss]

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