The Kids Talk Back....
.... as well they should.
Online safety legislation is opposed by many it claims to protect https://wapo.st/47X7UAl
These senators dont actually care about protecting kids, they just want to control information, one teenager posted. If congress wants to protect children, they should pass a ... privacy law, another teenager said. Others in the server accused the lawmakers of trying to demonize the CEOs to push their ... bills, which were often described with profanity.
More than 100 human rights and LGBTQ groups have condemned the bill, saying it would endanger minors, especially LGBTQ youth. First Amendment lawyers and organizations focused on protecting free speech also have lambasted the proposal and similar state laws, saying they would place dire restrictions on free speech and expression.
What were seeing is a rash of legislation that both doesnt do what it thinks its going to do, will be used to do bad things specifically, and also will impact the First Amendment rights of adults and minors alike,
The whole hearing was a joke; it was a sham, said May, the 26-year-old Michigan activist who created the Discord server in hopes of rallying opposition to KOSA. She agreed to speak to The Washington Post on the condition that she be identified by first name only. The way they were attacking political content that they disagree with, its obvious theyre using this bill to censor speech.
What we are seeing is the same exact thing as when people said comic books were causing kids to commit crime and juvenile delinquency, or when they said TV is melting kids brains, or that Dungeons and Dragons is causing an unprecedented mental health crisis, Cohn told The Post. Every new form of media has at some point been declared to be destroying the mental fabric of American youth.