Call the committee and your reps, and tell them to PROTECT Section 230. Regardless of the chances of its repeal, it's better to let them know that repealing it would damage our free speech and negatively impact the economy. #SaveSpeech #ProtectSection230 #Protect230
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took me like two minutes total. don’t have to talk to anybody, don’t have to make a phone call, just have to write what you can about how payment processors shouldn’t control what consumers can buy and hit send. that’s it
all hands on deck yall, this could make a huge difference
#savespeech #stopKOSA #notodigitalID
"We are certainly looking to move forward with KOSA and COPPA 2.0 and KOSMA altogether."
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While he may not side on repealing Section 230, he STILL wants mass surveillance bills.
Call your reps:
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If you want to push back against platform censorship like what now happened with subscribestar, you need to call your reps and demand opposition to these bills/policies
Get family and friends involved. Explain the stakes in clear terms.
At least one of my Senators is against the repeal, though that still leaves the other. I'll still call both here just to be extra safe, as someone who lives in this awful state, yeah, "Fled Cruz" can't be trusted.
While the KIDS Act/KOSA and all these other bills, to my knowledge, haven't reached a new vote in the House yet the Senate is planning a committee hearing for Section 230. Boosting this so everyone can call their Senators & get them to vote against repealing it.
This is big, and we have a deadline, call, and call frequently
if contacting politicians to voice your displeasure has been too intimidating or otherwise difficult for you, you might find this to be a more achievable way to speak up
you can just type your comment in the box, long or short, and submit it anonymously
Hey everyone in the United States should REALLY leave a pleasantly harsh comment here. Tell payment processors to stop dictating what you're allowed to spend money on!
Those not in the U.S. please share cause this affects you too!
Make. Your voice. Heard.
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I'm just about to head to bed here so I'm not sure if this is this debanking is good since I'm sleepy, hopefully someone can fill me in on this and y'all can get the appropriate calls put in about this. Figured I'd share this to get the word out about it.
#savespeech #killProject2025
ATTENTION! Several groups, including the Heritage Foundation, are attempting to call a convention under Article V of the US Constitution
This is likely an attempt to push Project 2025 into a permanent foundation in the Constitution
CALL YOUR REPS. more below
Hey, alongside contacting your representatives, this seems like another thing worth putting a bit of your time into and sharing around. If we could get "reputational risk" taken off the table, even in this current climate, that could create a chilling effect on these kinds of policies
Call your reps please. We have a lot of time before it hits house floor. It may have left e&c, but there's still the possibility that it hits either judiciary or rules committee first. Regardless, call.
#savespeech
I'm not sure when the next House vote on these bills is but this person has a very helpful script to say to help make calling your reps easier, I just called mine to get the KIDS Act, KOSA, and all these other bills voted down and this helped me.
I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking.
I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process
While this sucks that KOSA/KIDS Act did get through the Committee with how close it was if we keep up the fight we can potentially kill it in the House and in the Senate, if it reaches that far. Let's keep up the fight and the pressure here and make sure it and every similar bill are voted down!
“Right, I think it's time to take a step back for a minute. The KIDS Act is not the worst-case scenario. We hate it for obvious reasons, but given the absolute flood of state age verification laws of late, a federal AV law for adult websites would change very, very little in this country. The regulations on design features for online platforms don't carry any mandates like what ChatControl used to have, and the text of them specifically preempts any interpretation that forces age verification on social media. Most of what it requires, other than the poisonous idea of age verification, is already done by the great majority of the websites we use. A mandate for "establishing reasonable policies addressing harms to minors" is nothing like a duty of care, especially when the harms listed are HIGHLY illegal things which these websites already moderate. The fact that it mandates functioning user report systems is something I could fully get behind in a bill that was less overly broad. And no, it has not passed the House. It's not even guaranteed a floor vote. It was reported out of committee. The amount of time between this stage and a floor vote, if one ever comes, is usually very substantial, meaning we have plenty of time to work. Even worse for it than that, it only made it out of committee along party lines, meaning that it's going to face an almost impossible path in the Senate from the moment it gets there, if it ever even does, and I do mean "if". Thune's reluctance, Cruz's spite, Blumenthal and Blackburn's insistence on something worse, the progressive wing's hostility toward age verification, and Wyden's stubborn use of procedural hurdles almost guarantee a death by a thousand cuts. Do. Not. Panic. Do not get demoralized, do not let yourselves be defeated in advance, do not fall for doomer misinformation on other subs and YouTube, and do not fucking give up.”
#savespeech #kosa
On the results of the markup today, I’m just straight up going to post this comment from r/politicaloptimism on it
Big news, and not good news, but luckily for us we have time. It needs to get to the committee of rules FIRST before heading to the main house chamber.
This means our fight is not over.
We will need to fight HARDER
#savespeech #notodigitalid
Signed every petition here & called both my reps and all the ones that this website connects me to. Boosting this for the night crowd, even if you leave a voice message they'll still hear it tomorrow so please do what you can to urge as many Representatives to vote down these bills.
Just finished signing ALL of the petitions, one by one. Hope you all do the same.
Did my calls yesterday and giving another today! Please please please call your reps <3 thank you
Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for!
keepandroidopen.org
Even though the chances of these getting through are slim I still called my reps about this. Just because the chance is slim doesn't mean it's 0, so I'm doing what I can to get the word out about this here and encouraging others to call their Congresspeople as well.
Read through the article in question, and it seems like the chances these are gonna get through are getting slim, but with enough effort they can be stopped completely.
LETS GET CALLING!!
#savespeech #StopKOSA #notodigitalid
Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again
Figured I'd share a bit of good news here, still going to call my reps tomorrow about KOSA again but at least AI slop can't be copyrighted.
image of a website pop-up call button from BadInternetBills.com prompting action about age gating and censorship bills with slots to enter phone number and zip code.
🚨KOSA, app store restrictions and ID checks are expected to be reviewed by House Energy and Commerce Committee this week, bringing us that much closer to a censored Internet under the guise of “kids safety"!
We have to keep up the pressure against these bills! www.badinternetbills.com
This is from HR 7661, calling itself the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act. This must not pass.
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