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ACTION ALERT

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The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Passed The Senate.
Now is Our Last Chance To Stop It. 

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet
and make government officials the arbiters of what young
people, and in many cases, adults, can see online. It will likely
lead many popular platforms to implement invasive age
verification measures, forcing you to share more of your
most sensitive data with more companies. That’s right: KOSA
is a censorship bill that creates new privacy and security risks.
We have to stop it. 

The government should not have the power to decide what
topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services
to remove and block access to anything that might be
considered unsafe. If KOSA passes, whoever is in charge of the
federal government will be able to apply pressure to social media
companies to bury many legal, but potentially controversial topics
behind age verification. Tell your representatives: This isn’t safety—
it’s censorship. And online services are likely to implement this
censorship with poorly working filters, which we know fail to
properly distinguish “good” speech from “bad” speech.

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On July 30, KOSA passed the U.S. Senate. But Representatives
in the House are rightly concerned by the bill's impact on free
speech. We need your help to tell them that this heavy-handed
plan to prevent minors from accessing content that the
government believes is not in their best interest is a terrible idea. 

Tell your Representative to vote NO on this bill today.
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Yours,

Jason Kelley
EFF Activism Team
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Activism | Impact Litigation | Technology

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