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waambles · 3 months

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SCARY QUEER PERSON!!!

Feels good to be back 😈 and I’m DONE CENSORING MYSELF. LONG LIVE QUEER FREEDOM AND JOY!! ☀️☀️☀️

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chaotickit · 29 days

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As of now, Florida and Kansas have passed bills that align with KOSA.

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So many people have held back on speaking out against KOSA or signing petitions because "it probably won't pass." But we have proof that it very well can and will.

So what can we do right now?

The same thing we've been doing: bring awareness and protest.

Here are a few websites you can visit to sign petitions:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

https://www.stopkosa.com/

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

You can also call your state reps. This post explains how you can do that.

Good luck, everyone! Don't give up yet.

#fuck kosa #stop kosa #kosa bill #kids online safety act #kids online safety bill #stop internet censorship #bad internet bills #kosa #important

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shortbreads · 1 year

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#censorship #earn it act #us politics #fuck america

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mollyjimbly · 1 year

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🚨🚨🚨EARN IT ABOUT TO BE PASSED🚨🚨🚨

PLEASE SOMEONE ANYONE HELP US

WE WILL BE SPIED ON DUE TO NO ENCRYPTION

LGBTQ+ CONTENT WILL BE WIPED FROM THE INTERNET

SEX WORKERS WILL BE CRIMINALIZED

THIS BILL WILL KILL THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT

what to do?

CALL YOUR STATE REPS

SIGN PETITIONS

DONATE

JOIN DISCORD SERVER

I AM BEGGING YOU PLEASE DO SOMETHING!

🚨🚨🚨🚨 URGENT 🚨🚨🚨🚨

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unityrain24 · 2 months

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if you are a USAmerican and care about any of the following:

fandom spaces and activities, such as shipping, fanart, fanfiction, and more

the LGBTQ+ community

sexism, feminism

racisism, racial equality

the genocide in palestine

the things happening in sudan, congo, lebanon, yemen, etc...

equality and equity

being able to voice your opinions on the government

government transparency

your right to freedom of speech, expression, and press under the constitution

THEN PLEASE HELP STOP KOSA

#unityrain.txt #kosa #stop kosa #fuck kosa #kids online safety act #censorship #politics #us politics

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the-rad1o-demon · 7 months

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So far, chances of KOSA being enacted is 31% according to the site linked below.

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Let's get that fucker down to zero, guys!!

Stuff to help us do that is linked here!

The call scripts linked below were originally for Congressional representatives, but now that the bill is in committee consideration by Senate Commerce, you should call your Senators instead and you can use the scripts for them. Also, when calling your Democrat senators, make sure to add that Senator Blackburn explicitly stated in interview that it would be used to "protect children from the transgender." I think it's pretty clear that this is not meant to protect children. It's just going to harm children further, especially trans children.

(Article below with a video of the interview embedded.)

Please help stop this bill in its tracks. Reblog, donate, call your senators, and keep an eye on the bill's chances of being passed. We can't stop now. 31% is still kind of a big number. We need to shrink those chances by a lot more.

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bump-inthe-night · 2 months

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On March 13th, Congress will vote on the Kids Online Safety Act, known as KOSA, which is an internet censorship bill that'll give state attorneys power over the internet to censor anything that puts information about and resources for Palestine, Congo, Sudan, the LGBTQIA+ community, and racial groups at risk of censorship.

While the bill has enough support to pass the Senate, the House of Representatives is more divided, and KOSA is less likely to gain enough support to pass through. Tell Democrats that passing KOSA will cost them votes and the election since they'll be partially at fault for giving Republican state attorney generals the power to block access to information and resources to infringe more on abortion rights and the rights of the LGBTQIA+ and POC communities.

As for Republicans, speak about how Democrats will weaponize this bill to "suppress" freedom of speech and the truth to aid their "woke agenda" to succeed in "destroying" America.

We need to use the division between Democrats and Republicans to destroy this bill. Please use these websites to email them:

Bad Internet Bills

StopKosa

EFF Action Center

Action Network

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kimslovebin · 1 month

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hi again, im gonna link the KOSA masterpost and try and get the kosa tag to go on trending, we need more people to talk about how dangerous KOSA is and can affect all of us. If we can get the tiktok ban tag to trend, so we can with the stop kosa tag.

EDIT: IT HAS NOT BEEN PASSED YET. READ THIS TWEET.

if this bill passes (which I'm guaranteed it won't since it violates the first amendment and it has been shut down before.) it can affect queer people, palestinians, and more. you would need your ID to use socials, your parents can see what your doing online, you will NOT have any privacy if this bill ends up passing. (Which again it won't, we need to keep speaking up about it.)

also if you have an issue with me talking about this so much then just block me and move on, this is serious and should be more well known.

SPEAK UP ABOUT KOSA AND STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP.

small edit: if this post has any misinfo then please let me know, a lot of misinformation has been going around and I don't want to spread something that is false !!

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inkskinned · 11 months

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one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

#writeblr #i was doing a lot with high school students. over and over again #other teachers kept asking me what i was doing differently - why the kids listened to me. i am not particularly foreboding #and i have a pretty firm personal policy of never reacting in anger #godhelpme.#i was always kind of taken aback #because in general the kids were pretty easy. i explained i needed to keep everything “PG-13” because this was my workplace #and it was kind of their workplace #too. besides #i love swearing #and since i couldn't swear #neither could they - so if they were going to say “fuck” or become violent #they needed to choose a really specific time #because we only get “the one”.. sure enough - nobody wanted to waste the one very specific “fuck” utterance. kids listened.#i think just because - that rule makes sense. the kids understand that i don't want to be unfair to them #that censorship is stupid #but that i'm under these rules too so like let's ride it out together #also i look young and tbh between me and u nobody wants to make the nice english teacher cry #the way these kids defended me to their friends was really genuinely so heartwarming bc the Grouchy Frat Boy #would be like MISS RAQUEL DOESN'T DESERVE THAT KIND OF AN ATTITUDE BRO DON'T TALK BACK TO HER

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charliejaneanders · 6 months

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[Jennifer] Armentrout told Popular Information that it was surprising to learn we are "living in an era where, apparently, some adults find it appropriate to contact the police over a fictional book involving gargoyles."

Moms for Liberty members call the cops on Florida librarians

#books #politics #censorship #police state #florida #book bans #jennifer armentrout #holy fuck this is scary

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lordoftablecloths · 1 month

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stopkosa.com

KOSA or the Kids Online Safety Act is an Internet bill being pushed by the American government. It claims its purpose is to "protect" kids, but really its methods of enforcing this is mass censorship and control of the Internet. The passing of this bill would lead to LGBTQ+ related information, reproductive healthcare, and other topics that government officials may find "dangerous" to children be restricted or censored.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

In the website linked above, there is a petition you can sign as well as a pre-filled message you can send. You can also write to your representatives, and if you don't want to come up with an entire message, I've attached sample scripts. Also, go to badinternetbills.com for another petition that references similar bills. For more information about KOSA, you can see this article: eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/don… .

Spread information about this, and do what you can. This bill being passed would mean an era of censorship for the Internet.

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asksleepymclean · 17 days

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Guys…You should not panic or give up…Please continue to call or email your Senator.Keep signing the petition. Keep saying you are against Kosa.. We must succeed so that the Senate or House cannot pass the bill.If we give up, panic or do nothing, they will pass this bill.We have to do everything in our power.. We have to work hard that they did NOT pass the bill.

We have to stop this before they pass the bill.The more we do this or say that we are against Kosa bill, the more likely they will not be able to pass the bill.So keep calling, emailing or faxing that you are against this.Keep signing the petition..Keep talking..

Don't let the bill censor the internet..Don't let us lose the internet..They don't have the right to censor us

I am against the Kosa Bill..I am against censorship

#stop kosa #fuck kosa #stop kosa bill #no kosa #end kosa #bad internet bills #kids online safety act #stop kids online safety act #no censorship #anti kosa #kosa bill #kosa act #kosa #kids online safety bill #Kosa bill sucks #free internet #call your senators

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txtstotheworld · 17 days

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any news on KOSA?

UPDATE KOSA 4/10/24

KOSA has unfortunately been introduced to the house of representatives. However, we have not heard if it has passed senate yet.

Please keep fighting. If KOSA becomes law, I will not be able to run this account anymore.

#political #politics #journalism #unbiased journalism #us politics #stop internet censorship #kosa #stop kosa #asks #anti kosa #fuck kosa #kosa info #kosa bill #kosa act #freedom of mind #free internet #freedom of the press #freedom of expression

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elhopper1sm · 20 days

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https://linktr.ee/stopkosa

Lawmakers can and will use this to censor information about Palestine let's be clear. This will harm queer kids

Also look up Fax Zero to fax your Representatives. If you have ideas for an Anti KOSA demonstration. Please let me know. And please forward it to @omarsbigsister on TikTok. Again she's done so much amazing work regarding this bill.

Also shout out to BypassCensorship.org for providing resource sin restrictive areas for people to BypassCensorship. Again if you have other anti censorship resources please forward them to me. Also look up Fax Zero to fax your Representatives. Thank you

#stop kosa #kosa bill #fuck kosa #kosa #kids online safety act #anti censorship #palestine #organization for transformative works #otw #pro ao3 #ao3 #famfiction #internet freedom #bad internet bills #lgbtqia #lgbtq

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fletchah · 2 months

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Sorry to be posting about KOSA again, I dislike getting involved in politics, but as a queer minor on the internet this is the one time i will.

I had a theory a while back that i considered withholding because it’s honestly really upsetting to think about. Realizing that it could even be a possibility hurt, and i’m sorry if it hurts you too.

I’ll keep it short. What if the governors who are trying to pass these bills know that cutting LGBTQ+ kids from information WILL encourage them to commit suicide, and they’re doing it to cleanse the “filth”? They’d have to find a roundabout way to end LGBTQ+’s future because they can’t just outright kill them.

I don’t know if it’s true, but it feels like it’d be pretty on-brand. Nevertheless, encouraging minors to off themselves in any way is RANCID, and even if they are trying to protect kids this is a shitty way to do that.

So how do we ACTUALLY keep minors safe on the internet?

TEACH THEM SHIT. Talk to them about how grooming happens, how to avoid getting into dangerous or illegal situations, how to be FUCKING KIND and MINDFUL, both because people are inclined to retaliate against rude comments even if they’re from children and because it’s just good to know how to be polite.

Wiping LGBTQ+ off the internet isn’t going to protect kids from a made-up threat of queer people brainwashing them into being gay. LGBTQ+ media isn’t going to make them gay either, because we grew up watching content with typical straight relationships and we still know who we are.

You know what i’ve seen firsthand? A little boy pretending to be trans like his big sibling. But that was okay, because at the end of the day he knew who he was.

Why do they think kids have no sense of their identity, and the notion that people can change their gender will immediately make them trans too? What significant damage will that do? Minors aren’t really allowed to get gender changing surgery besides puberty blockers so they can’t worry about kids “destroying” their bodies, and if they’re a functioning member of society then I don’t see the problem?? Maybe capitalism would benefit from accessible gender affirming care. Just sayin. More cash being circulated is better than a bunch of dead bodies :/

#fletchposting #lgbgtq #kosa bill #stop kosa #bad internet bills #kids online safety act #stop kids online safety act #internet censorship #kosa #trans #transgender #trans pride #fuck kosa

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i-stare-back · 2 months

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Why fuck KOSA?

"Its a good act that'll help stop teens and children from being exposed to the worse parts of the internet right?"

NOPE

KOSA is going to basically eliminate most forms of internet anonymity and endanger kids. Let me tell you a few key things;

KOSA is going to make users register their identity to companies. You are no longer anonymous and your activity can be traced back to you.

KOSA is going to make companies that display and distribute social media control what they allow so that it blocks anything loosely deemed "inappropriate". This includes most information about mental health, LGBTQ+, and more. Its essentially going to sweep everything not completely G rated under the rug.

KOSA is going to allow parents full access to see what their child is doing online. This is letting parents completely control what might be their kids only respite from life. Its also going to endanger children of parents who might be homophobic, transphobic, or just extremely strict.

"Well it doesn't say any of that in the .gov site. It says that it'll stop teens from being exposed to stuff that might harm their mental health!"

Do you have any idea how vague that description is? At that point, basically everything could be taken down or hidden because there was a slight debate on whether it was "negatively affecting mental health or not".

This isn't even all of what it could do. I'm just restating everything I've gathered from reading posts and news articles. If you want to know more, there's a ton of information if you go to #kosa or related.

If you want to stop KOSA, spread the word. Protest against it with sites like badinternetbills, reblog and share this post and similar posts on tumblr and other social media sites, and tell your friends and family to as well.

#lgbtq community #lgbtq #fuck kosa #kosa bill #kosa #stop kosa #stop kids online safety act #genderfluid #transgender #mental health #mental illness #bad internet bills #kids online safety act #kids online safety bill #internet censorship

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