Submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth
This Bill Threatens Access to LGBTQ+ Online Communities.::Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fanfic site loved by young LGBTQ+ people, was compromised by hackers. But the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is the real threat.
‘New law threatens trans communities’ should probably be a news article template by now.
Angry white male Americans with inferiority complexes are so hot right now.
Lol I edited my comment and didn’t realise I just nicked your line. You got in my head lad.
They see transphobic action as campaigning. And it’s all they do.
You expected actual governance? They broke that in the Reagan era and Citizens United killed it. Welcome to the new feudalism.
Torches in the left shed. Pitchforks in the right.
Kids shouldn’t even be on the Internet. If they get access and ruin themselves from stumbling apon some fucked up shit. That’s on them and their parents 🤷
Agree. But when you start limiting access to info, you control people.
They shouldn’t, but we aren’t putting this genie back in the bottle. There are kids who already grew up since the 2010s having phones with internet access, who already are adults, and that’s not going to change.
Rather than pointing fingers at the parents and the parents pointing fingers at the world we could take a moment to acknowledge that the horror scenario already came to pass and it turned out mostly fine.
Frankly these days old people with phones believing every nonsense they read worry me even more.
US society has demonstrated a) it’s generally too incompetent to be telling kids what to do and what not to do, and b) does not have kids’ best interests at heart anyway, seeking to forge kids into soulless cheap interchangeable laborers and soldiers to be used and worn out in the vanity projects of billionaires. For every kid in the US, their whole job is learning that everyone, including their parents, are in on the ruse, and to find a way to escape this destiny.
For that the internet will be most useful, and any barriers we have to information it will be up to them to break.
Oh, and our society fucked up the climate and ecology enough that there’s going to be a food crisis in their adulthood. And we’re trying to pretend that won’t happen.
I think it’s far more sensible to say kids should not have access to the internet. Give them like Disney net or something.
Same playbook used throughout history, we need to make you safer by taking away your right to privacy and access to communities you identify with. Without the LGBTQ+ community center in my hometown I doubt I would have survived young adulthood. That was a physical space funded by a non-profit, now that so much of our access to community is online the authoritarians from both parties in the US can just remove communities they don’t like assisted by legislation like this.
imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah sure does but it threatens a lot more than just these communities. This will affect almost everyone and is a clear power grab to gain even more goverental control of online activity across the board. Children are often used as pawns for these types of bills. This is similar to the sesta/fosta nonsense.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s teen vogue. They’re trying to make kids interested. Don’t be dismissive, grandparent.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Yeah, I like it when they put out articles like this. Teen Vogue only occasionally gets political, and when they do, that’s when the threat is pretty serious.