John,

Here’s what's happening: The co-sponsors of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) are trying to add this bad bill as an amendment to the "must-pass" FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024.¹ The deadline to pass the FAA is May 10th. We are hard at work and focused on ensuring that KOSA isn't added and slipped through.

Time is running short, but there's still time to stop KOSA.

The current version of KOSA is flawed. By lighting up the internet and flooding legislators with hundreds of thousands of emails and calls, we were able to push through some changes before KOSA was introduced in the House with “rewritten” language earlier this year.² But the House version remains fundamentally unchanged from the Senate version: a bad bill that will make kids less safe. Dozens of human rights groups, civil liberties organizations, press freedom advocates, and child protection experts agree.³

Our demand: KOSA in its current form must be stopped! This bill still endangers privacy and freedom of expression rather than actually protecting vulnerable people, including children, from the harms of Big Tech. We’ll keep fighting to stop KOSA, and push lawmakers to focus on broader, comprehensive privacy legislation that protects everyone.

Help us keep fighting bad bills that threaten freedom of expression and get a real privacy bill that truly protects us.

We need policies that dismantle the underlying surveillance-driven business models and make the internet safer for everyone through actions like limiting data collection, creating an opt out registry for data brokers,⁴ and holding Big Tech accountable for harmful algorithms—not content control.⁵

With your help, we will fight KOSA, and every bad internet bill like it—and advocate for good ones too. Will you support our advocacy for sensible privacy legislation today?

In solidarity,

Sarah P. at ❤️ Fight for the Future

1. Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/07/congresss-push-protect-kids-online-is-crossroads/  

2. Fight’s statement on KOSA language changes: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-02-15-fight-for-the-future-statement-on-new-version-of-kosa-some-improvements-but-the-duty-of-care-still-enables-harmful-censorship/

3. 19th News: “Why Some LGBTQ+ Groups Oppose the Current Kids Online Safety Act” https://19thnews.org/2024/03/why-some-lgbtq-groups-oppose-the-current-kids-online-safety-act/

4. Do Not Dox: donotdox.com

5. State of the Fight for the Future: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-03-07-state-of-the-fight-for-the-future/