KOSA and other Bad Internet Bills (US-specific for now)
In late 2025, Congress is once again considering KOSA along with a package of other #BadInternetBills internet bills. EFF, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Woodhull Foundation, and dozens of other groups continue been sounding the alarm, and grassroots activisms have joined in to make it it clear that these bills are terrible ideas. Alas, 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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Icon originally from Why we need to openly protest KOSA on Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki, used by permission.
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When it comes to anything technical, lawmakers are typically unqualified to make any assessment on how best to protect the public. They constantly want to introduce back doors, ban encryption, or other nonsense because they think they’ll magically uncover hackers, pedos, and terrorists. In reality they’re just making the technology less secure or flat out breaking how things are supposed to work.
I think your view of it is honestly a little positive. In reality, I think a lot of it is an intentional erosion of privacy to eventually implement a surveillance state and control the population completely.
scumbag US politicians want what China has lol