KOSA and other Bad Internet Bills (US-specific for now)

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Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Woodhull Foundation, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress. We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation. We're organizing to keep them from sneaking these bad internet bills through.

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KOSA Would Boost the Federal Government’s Powers to Shape Online Speech, Says OTI (www.newamerica.org)

submitted 1 month ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/bad_internet_bills@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As if any impact on the internet stops neatly at the border.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It doesn't. However, the law does.

Facebook and it's world wide users may be impacted, but other sides won't be. If anything, I think it might be a net positive, where people will be avoiding US based internet services

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How many images get posted here with badly-censored swear words, because of robots on other sites?

How many images simply don't get posted?

I think it might be a net positive

Fuck accelerationism.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not accelerationism, that is just the world depending way way way too much on a single unstable country.

And yeah, some of it may filter in but generally the rest of the world just goes in as normal

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'Millions suffering censorship might be good, eventually' is absolutely accelerationism.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Please look up what that word means

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations, referred to as "acceleration".

Colloquially, making things worse will make things better... for whoever survives.

Did you have an argument, or do you need your nose rubbed in this a fourth time?