#First amendment

[txtstotheworld]

Any updates on the meeting??

The senate has voted on whether or not to add amendments, with a final vote of 12 yes and 85 no.

The FAA Bill is moving to the House without any amendments. This means KOSA will not be going to House.

#political #politics #journalism #us politics #unbiased journalism #kosa #stop internet censorship #stop kosa #asks #anti kosa #kosa info #kosa lies #kids online safety bill #fuck kosa #kosa bill #kosa act #freedom of mind #free internet #free gaza #freedom of the press #first amendment #freedom of expression #freedom of speech

[tasty-patches]

"Instead of killing students, this time we're going to accuse them of misdemeanors which we can upgrade to felonies because they're wearing masks. Ruining their lives is unavoidable. We have to enforce the law. Just don't commit crimes and you'll be fine. No one has ever been falsely accused of a crime by the state apparatus."

#free palestine #student activism #ohio #first amendment #campus protests

[commiepinkofag]

#iu #graduation #protest #sniper #police violence #police state #free speech #first amendment #palestine #gaza #genocide #2024

[crim50n-r8er-reblogs]

Senate Bill 686 of the 118th Congress (The Restrict Act)

I’m honestly a bit disappointed here at Tumblr for not talking about this bill more, so I’m going to share what I’ve learned about it with you all

The link above goes to a pdf file going over the entire bill that has only been introduced atm as shown in the image just above from congress.gov.

Now, people only see this as a means to ban Tiktok, but that’s just the mask this truly cruel bill is hiding behind.

To boil it all down, this bill lets the Secretary of Commerce to have the power to ban…basically ANYTHING on the internet.

This includes hardware like video game consoles or Wifi networks as well as software and applications such as VPNs.

It also gives the government the power to monitor, basically everything you do online, private messages, posts on social media, streams, you name it, they can monitor it.

And the punishment for using, say, a VPN to access Tiktok, will result in 20 years in prison with a 1/4 million fine, a full million if you did it on purpose.

Now, I please ask you all to go to your representatives and tell them about how you don’t want this bill to be passed whatsoever. Heck, if you have to, (passively) threaten them with supporting their opponent in the next primary in any way they can. Just remember to be respectful and civil.

If you don’t want to do that, I respect that decision, and I understand that you wouldn’t want to deal with politics. But, I at least ask you to signal boost this post by reblogging it to your own followers and give any other thoughts about this that you might have in the tags or just normally.

I don’t want this lovable hellsite we all call home and made such good friends and memories on to be under the eyes of those pedophilic heathens who can’t seem to even know how to unlock a smartphone.

I thank you all for reading this, and I hope you all have a good day/night.

#us politics #usa #restrict act #senate 686 #tiktok #tiktok ban #tumblr #internet #first amendment #freedom of speech #pls share

[davidaugust]

It’s true.

#us politics #USpol #religion #first amendment #memes #meme #politics #law

[myfriendthecouch]

Banning abortion is a violation of my First Amendment, it’s a violation of my religious freedom. I do not want Christian views imposed on me as a Jew.

#abortion #abortion is health care #first amendment #religious freedom #roe v wade #roe vs. wade #roe vs wade #new #Jewish #Judaism #jew things #twitter #twitter post #Rabbi Daniel Bogard

[odinsblog]

IN THE FALL OF 2020, GIG WORKERS IN VENEZUELA POSTED A SERIES OF images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet.

In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh.

The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.

They were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloud—though usually with stricter storage and access controls. Yet earlier this year, MIT Technology Review obtained 15 screenshots of these private photos, which had been posted to closed social media groups.

The photos vary in type and in sensitivity. The most intimate image we saw was the series of video stills featuring the young woman on the toilet, her face blocked in the lead image but unobscured in the grainy scroll of shots below. In another image, a boy who appears to be eight or nine years old, and whose face is clearly visible, is sprawled on his stomach across a hallway floor. A triangular flop of hair spills across his forehead as he stares, with apparent amusement, at the object recording him from just below eye level.

iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020.

Ultimately, though, this set of images represents something bigger than any one individual company’s actions. They speak to the widespread, and growing, practice of sharing potentially sensitive data to train algorithms, as well as the surprising, globe-spanning journey that a single image can take—in this case, from homes in North America, Europe, and Asia to the servers of Massachusetts-based iRobot, from there to San Francisco–based Scale AI, and finally to Scale’s contracted data workers around the world (including, in this instance, Venezuelan gig workers who posted the images to private groups on Facebook, Discord, and elsewhere).

Together, the images reveal a whole data supply chain—and new points where personal information could leak out—that few consumers are even aware of.

(continue reading)

#politics #james baussmann #scale ai #irobot #amazon #roomba #privacy rights #colin angle #privacy #data mining #surveillance state #mass surveillance #surveillance industry #1st amendment #first amendment #1st amendment rights #first amendment rights #ai #artificial intelligence #iot #internet of things

[bear-cubs-art-things]

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

-Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire

The first amendment allows us to say what we want, whenever we want, without our government punishing us for our words. KOSA, therefore, is violating our first amendment rights. It's mass censorship of the internet, and our right to freedom of speech is being suppressed BY THE GOVERNMENT. Our founding fathers created this as THE FIRST AMENDMENT, and clearly thought this was important. Oh, wouldn't they be disappointed to see what their descendants are doing now. KOSA, a mass censorship bill that will contradict our constitution as we know it. KOSA, which instead of protecting the kids is in fact putting them in harms way. KOSA, which will put so so many people in danger. And we can stop it, but we have to fight. We MUST fight

To hear one voice clearly, we must have the freedom to hear them all

#kosa #stop kosa #fuck kosa #anti kosa #internet censorship #internet freedom #censorship #censorship bill #first amendment #freedom of speech #kids online safety act #kids online safety bill #bear rambles #this is so important. We HAVE to fight for our right of free speech #We MUST. #We can't allow the government to take away our rights. #and this whole post is based on my knowledge that I've accumulated. It may not he entirely accurate but it's pretty damn close

[reasonsforhope]

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump ruled late Friday night that Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act (AEA), which would restrict drag performances in the state and threaten performers who violate the law with felony criminal penalties, is unconstitutional.

“The Tennessee General Assembly can certainly use its mandate to pass laws that their communities demand,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote. “But that mandate as to speech is limited by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which commands that laws infringing on the Freedom of Speech must be narrow and well-defined. The AEA is neither.”

Parker, appointed to the bench in 2017, found after a two-day trial that the law — criminalizing “adult cabaret entertainment” performances anywhere “where the adult cabaret entertainment could be viewed by a person who is not an adult” — is unconstitutional on several grounds.

Parker did not shy away from the underlying issues, either.

“The word ‘drag’ never appears in the text of the AEA,” Parker wrote. “But the Court cannot escape that ‘drag’ was the one common thread in all three specific examples of conduct that was considered ‘harmful to minors,’ in the legislative transcript.”

After detailing that legislative history, as shown in four transcripts reviewed by the court, Parker found that “the legislative transcript strongly suggests that the AEA was passed for an impermissible purpose.”

That “impermissible purpose,” Parker found, was “chilling constitutionally-protected speech.”

-via Law Dork, 6/3/23

#united states #us politics #tennessee #drag #drag bans #transphobia #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #first amendment #good news #hope

[reality-detective]

Tulsi Gabbard Unveils the Disturbing Truth About the TikTok Ban

“It’s not really about TikTok at all. It’s about government being able to choose what platforms are acceptable and what are not.”

The potential implications for citizens are even more alarming. Imagine that you want to use a VPN to illegally download a forbidden app. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #free speech #first amendment #1st amendment #tiktok #tulsi gabbard #news #you decide #joe rogan

[jensorensen]

Where's the Crisis?

Only a few weeks ago, the world was aghast at Israel's killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in three separate vehicles, and an investigation revealed the IDF's AI targeting system that led to enormous numbers of civilian casualties. It's no mystery why students are protesting. Yet in American media coverage, the fact that these kids are protesting is treated like the far greater crisis, worse than the actual death and destruction being rained down on real human beings.

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#cartoon #protest #gaza #college #columbia #first amendment #free speech #war

[txtstotheworld]

5/4/2024: AB3080 and Other Age Verification Laws.

Hello.

There is a KOSA adjacent bill that California is currently facing.

**The bill also covers services.

The bill has not passed senate. It simply has been introduced. (Source) It will be voted on tomorrow, however.

The image shown above is a general overview of the bill. You can read the rest here.

Georgia has also passed a KOSA adjacent bill. It is to go into effect by July 1st, 2025. It essentially is similar to Florida's House Bill 3, from what I have read. It will restrict minors over the age of 16 from having social media. I will be making a more in depth post on this later, as I haven't had much time with finals to research this. You can read the whole bill here.

Another bill going around is Alabama's HB164.

Essentially the bill will "provide age-verification requirements for the distribution of sexual material harmful to minors through certain adult websites, applications, and digital and virtual platforms; to prohibit the retention of certain personally identifying information; to assess an additional tax on the gross proceeds received through sales, distribution, memberships, subscriptions, and performances of material deemed harmful to minors; to require notice to be given of the dangers of pornography under certain conditions; to provide civil and criminal penalties for violations; to amend Section 13A-6-240, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2023-461, 2023 Regular Session, to require written consent to distribute a private image of another, with exceptions; and to further provide for the enforcement authority of the Attorney General; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022."

Or in simpler terms, make it a law for age verification for adult/porn sites, additional taxes on adult content, prohibit identifying information from being retained by organizations, and so on.

You can read the whole bill here. I am unsure when it will go into effect, but I do know it has been passed.

There are other age verification laws that have been passed, but I need to spread the word. I will make another post shortly discussing the others. Here is a list of all the states and when their laws go into effect:

***The map above does not show all the states highlighted/all the states with laws in place. However, most of them are on there.

#political #politics #journalism #us politics #unbiased journalism #kosa #stop internet censorship #stop kosa #asks #anti kosa #kosa info #kosa lies #kids online safety bill #fuck kosa #kosa bill #kosa act #floridian politics #california politics #georgia politics #free internet #freedom of mind #freedom of the press #first amendment

[gwydionmisha]

This is a direct assault of the Freedom of the Press.

#Oklahoma #Journalists #First Amendment #Autocracy #News #Nathan Dahm #Freedom of the Press #War on Truth

[learnwithmearticles]

KOSA Update

Following up on a previous post about the KOSA bill - a bill that would drastically change how the internet functions, in some ways enforcing the collection of private information and restricting access to educational material based on anyone’s belief that it might be harmful to children.

As of March 2024, the bill has gone through revision to reduce the ability to target marginalized communities. However, the language used in the bill is still broad and would be ultimately harmful to children and adult internet users.

Press releases like that of the American Civil Liberties Union invoke the First Amendment to highlight both the bill’s continued call for requiring or incentivizing age verification and its goal of censoring many different topics of conversation in online spaces.

If the U.S. government seeks to control, censor, and otherwise interfere with the world of the internet, then it would have to be a government program akin to public education or certain libraries. Let that government take over the responsibilities of running and funding the internet in that case if they want that power. Otherwise, the internet does not fall under federal jurisdiction.

In response to reaching out regarding this bill, one Congressman wrote that platforms like TikTok have come under scrutiny for “leaving users’ data vulnerable to access by the Chinese Communist Party, by collecting personal information on children in violation of federal law”. This Congressman does not state in this response whether he supports the KOSA bill in particular, but we hope that he is aware that this proposed bill would, by federal law, necessitate the collection of personal information of minors if websites are to follow its requirements. Additionally, TikTok’s data collection is comparable to that of other sites such as Instagram and Facebook, which are just as able to be infiltrated by political enemies of the U.S.

This update is not about the U.S. government’s ultimatum to the company ByteDance that will likely end in a U.S. ban on TikTok. Still, that news is relevant to internet users, especially those who value choice and self-determination.

In the aforementioned Congressman’s response, he also mentions the Privacy Enhancing Technology Research Act (H.R. 4755). That bill, passed in 2023, calls for organizations like the National Science Foundation to conduct and support research into technologies for mitigating privacy risks. Bills like this one are far more conducive to achieving online safety than the proposed KOSA bill. It seeks to enhance our understanding of data handling and online privacy, while the KOSA bill is more so blindly punching towards a problem that we do not yet have a clear view of.

As before, resources to further learn about and speak out against the bill are below.

Resources:

1.https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/revised-kids-online-safety-act-is-an-improvement-but-congress-must-still-address-first-amendment-concerns

2.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act

3. https://www.stopkosa.com/

4. Privacy Enhancing Technology Research Act

5. KOSA Bill Post-Revision6.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth#

#kosa bill #stop kosa #kosa #politics #us politics #article #news #resources #first amendment #freedom of speech

[animentality]

#twitter #lizzo #lgbt #drag queens #transgender #first amendment

[commiepinkofag]

US legislators are absolutely out of touch with reality — technology especially.

with kosa and tiktok censorship; with meta & google manipulating elections, trafficking private data, selling information to police, providing technology used in war crimes; with the cataclysmic environmental impacts of artificial intelligence… [to name a few]

ALL of the american tech companies do more harm to the world than one company in china.

none of that matters, solely due to the strong presence of a pro-palestine/anti-genocide movement on tiktok.

#tik tok #internet #kosa #censorship #palestine #gaza #us politics #first amendment #tech #tech bros #genocide joe #2024