PieFedThe KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It
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I saw this on Ground.News this morning. None of the articles even listed the name of the bill, and all of them had zero criticism to offer. Not great.
Good luck trying to take power away from the ones in government who are owned by companies..
What company would support this, though? It seems like all the big tech giants, from meta to musk, would all be against the govt having carte blanche to investigate them.
jarfilThere will likely be companies dedicated solely to offering "plug and play" services to become and stay KOSA-compliant, it will be their main source of revenue. Big tech giants, will do the bare minimum to stay compliant, then censor whatever anyone asks them, so long as they can keep peddling ads and siphoning user online behavior patterns. If it makes smaller competing sites incur in higher expenses and ideally kill them off, so much the better.
wizardbeardThere's a handy "Take Action" button at the bottom of the article where you can look up your representative and send them an editable pre-written email.
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vriska1If you want to help stop this bill contact your lawmakers here.
Boomer Humor DoomergodMan I can't wait for a state to sue FoxNews.com for turning kids' parents into racist assholes
It passed 91-3. Our representatives are ignorant dinosaurs who don’t understand the internet or how it works. I already contacted both my senators. I plan to contact my house members before they make this abomination into a law. I encourage everyone to do the same.
They may not know how the interet works but they know exactly how manufactured hysteria works. Whenever the government says "Think of the children", they're trying to fool and exploit you. They don't give a fuck about your children. Your children can't vote.
"'Protect kids,' please."
When is it next being acted on? I'd like to actually mail a physical letter explaining my concerns. Maybe they'd like it since they're dinosaurs.
And of the 3 who voted against it, 2 were Republican and 1 was a Democrat.
Start voting in judges that believe in freedom at the local and state levels.
The way things are, only the courts can decide.
😍US needs more people like you
Link to the bill here: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/118th-congress/senate-amendment/3021/text
Oh, fuck. I get the Republicans voting for it, but what the fuck is wrong with the Democrats? *Bernie* voted yes on this thing!
I think with most Dems (including Bernie) it's a case of terminal being old and not understanding what they're doing. Basically every single internet bill is written by corporate lobbyists and handed off to be rubber stamped.
Its almost as if even the better party of the two still has its own agenda that its trying to fulfill.
One that isn't necessarily in our best interests.
Of course there is a worse side of the coin but you gotta love how any time it is something that really fucks the people good (*especially* about privacy) they all suddenly magically agree and can pass it in moments.
The fact that even the most progressive one out of the bunch who's supposed to be the way forward and should've had that nomination last time even voted yes on it should jolt everyone awake. But it will not.
We were warned about a two party system.
Make sure your router has built-in VPN support folks. That way when some shit like this does eventually pass all your traffic can flow over the VPN for your entire network.
This law seems to be aimed at taking down hosted content though, so you can connect over your VPN but the sites won't be there to connect to, unless they move their hosting out of the USA. And even that might not be enough to protect US companies from being forced to take the content down if they want to survive.
I’ve had this setup and would recommend but since I’ve switched from OpenVPN to Wiregaurd I’m getting constantly hit by cloud flare verification s and captchas… and my IP hasn’t changed once since. Wondering if that’s just the environment now or specific to my protocol change. Any readers’ experiences?
Cloudfare sees a lot of traffic from a single ip and performs the checks you’re seeing to make sure it’s not malicious. Google will do the same, as will a number of other services.
It’s the nature of a shared vpn service.
I have this all the time when I'm on my mullvald vpn. Makes me want to not use it half the time :(
That is the goal, I guess, big tech companies don’t like if one protects their privacy..
Best of all captchas which require human interaction are completely redundant anyways. From a security perspective anyways (blocking bots generating huge amounts of traffic)... For training your next LLM however...
If you're savy then install open wrt on it. If you want expert mode, then install pfsense on an old PC/laptop. If you want pucker factor, then install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it's ip from the VM.
Why are you like this, and who hurt you??
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Yeah, that's reasonable
This not so much
Lol, I get blamed enough for DNS, I don't need routing too
What's a good router one can use for openWRT? I just so happen to need a new one. No expert mode for me.
I would just look at routers with the features you want and check to see if it's compatible.
https://openwrt.org/toh/start
Thanks! Just to be sure, the router company becomes inconsequential when I install openwrt, or am I mistaken?
As in say I buy a linksys router and install openwrt, linksys can no longer spy on my traffic, so I shouldn't worry about that, right?
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Ok cool thanks, I'll probably go with something on this list then. My other things I was looking at were the Turris Omnia and the Peplink B-one, but tbh a lynksys with openwrt will likely serve me fine.
Make sure to own your router, I’d say. Set you ISP router to modem mode and use OpnSense on a APU as router where you have full control. You can filter ads with adGuard and you can use wireGuard and openVPN to connect to a VPN provider as well as setting up an endpoint so you can protect yourself even on the go and even on locked up systems like iOS.
Except, Apple does let some of their own packages not go through VPN, which is very shady, tho.
The US is a hostile place for online hosting. All small and medium businesses should move their operations out of the US. I did years ago, never looked back. Only the big ones with lobbiests will remain, just as our dear lord and saviour capitalism intended.
aghhhhh why cant politics be boring again I just want to exist
When did you ever think politics was boring?
Don't bring attention to their privilege! They just want to go back to being blissfully ignorant! /s
Before they started realizing they need to pay attention
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Only when I want to be lied to.
When they were kids and it wasn’t even in their minds.
The 90s?
Can someone tl;Dr the bill? I can't open the article at work.
If you want to help stop this bill contact your lawmakers here.
https://www.stopkosa.com/
What exactly is the benchmark for triggering an investigation? Child Gambling or just cartoons which say the ungodly word "taint"?
Idk, depending on the context I might support this bill. If you need to have real quantifiable evidence of harm done to children then you should expect the authorities to come in and clean it up.