TIL that to combine KOSA with COPPA 2.0 and another act, the US Senate amended a random paper-shuffling act to replace it with the new version of KOSA.
TIL that to combine KOSA with COPPA 2.0 and another act, the US Senate amended a random paper-shuffling act to replace it with the new version of KOSA.
As a result, bill trackers report the new KOSA title ("KOSPA") but use the old summary on the paper-shuffling bill. (e.g. see https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2073)
(This is not about the merits of KOSA; this is about the merits of taking a young kid (bill)'s dreams and aspirations, shutting it in the closet grinder, and replacing poor old billy with his cousin−n-times−removed.)
What's more infuriating is that no major news outlets report that KOSA was passed as KOSPA.
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What’s more infuriating is that no major news outlets report that KOSA was passed as KOSPA.
What's infuriating about it is that it puts queer kids at major risk and no one seems to care.
https://www.them.us/story/kids-online-safety-act-kosa-youth-lgbtq-content
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Actually, the senate amended the bill based on these concerns to have the area on hiding harmful content enforced by the FTC.
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ELI5 what the bills are?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Online_Safety_Act#Legislation
The Filter Bubble Transparency part requires platforms with opaque algorithms to give a way to switch off the algorithm and disclose such ways.
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Yikes… so much potential for exploitation and surveillance with a thin veneer of protect the kids.
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Well there’s still hope they’ll be unable to resolve the differences between the Senate and House versions or that Biden won’t sign it.
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Biden has issued a statement that he intends to sign it. After that, we can just hope that we don't get an anti-queer president, since the clause that allowed censorship is enforced by the FTC now.
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