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Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online.

KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

It'll be a bit late then.

I know how compliance works, and this is setting off all my alarm bells, and the EFF and privacy community agrees... This has truly horrifying implications

If you're going to let human rights be further erroded because it came in a pretty explanation, not much I can do. But when the next patriot act comes back to bite us, remember one thing... When they say it's about the children, it never is