Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA

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• Godort@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As with most things of this nature, it’s presented in a way that makes it difficult to argue against, but the evil will come with how it is enforced.

  Basically everyone agrees that harmful content should be harder for children to access, and reigning in social media’s exploitation of psychology is laudable.

  Right now, there isn’t a good way to control access without handing a ton of personal information to a 3rd party agency with questionable oversight. When you want to access pron in meatspace, you share your name and age with the store clerk, who will promptly forget it. The system doesn’t translate to a digital medium with permanent records.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Haven’t even looked at the bill, but I’m willing to bet my testicles there is some bullshit going on in this bill.

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• Fijxu@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Get kids out of social media

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• who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  eff.org/…/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems…

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  cause what kind of monster does it take to be against protecting children, right???

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    swear to god I’ll bring rotten.com back and fill it with the nastiest filthiest autopsies I can steal.

    I’ll make these fuckers take me to court and force them to spell it out that they “find autopsies sexually stimulating”, and then I’ll call them sick fucks.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is the predatory advertising that Apple allows towards children in apps that Apple allows on their app stores going to be stopped by this bill, or does this only affect their competitors?

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re kidding right? Of course not, nothing about this is about kids. Kids are just a great pretext, always.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They hate privacy. They just use it for advertising because their business model depends on it marginally less.

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• ViscloReader@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If apples wants to kids, they should stop their malicious psycho practices aimed toward kids. The stuff that makes too much kids want an iPhone over anything else. But I guess that’s more bc of marketing than bc they are kids…

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  • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Actually the manipulation of market is psychotic and the fact we’ve normalized psychological abuse with social media is concerning.

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• por_que_pine@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  KOSA is a content moderation and surveillance bill, cloaked in child safety language. It:

  Enables censorship without directly mandating it

  Pressures platforms to track users more aggressively

  Entrenches parental surveillance at the expense of teen autonomy

  Gives state AGs legal tools to push partisan agendas online

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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