Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

If you want to add your name / make your voice heard against #KOSA you can sign this petition we're hosting @team. Be sure to call your Senators too and tell them to oppose #KOSA / S. 3663. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/surveillance-doesnt-make-kids-safe

Notably, a lot of LGBTQ groups from red and purple states signed on. These groups understand how right wing AGs and state legislatures will weaponize poorly drafted legislation like #KOSA against marginalized people.

Here's the full letter and list of signers https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-11-28-letter-90-lgbtq-and-human-rights-organizations-oppose-kosa

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been going around claiming there is "no opposition" to #KOSA. This letter should put that lie to rest. Dozens of organizations signed including the #ACLU, GLAAD, GLSEN, National Center for Transgender Equality, Black and Pink, Access Now, American Library Association, The Human Trafficking Prevention Project, Reframe Health and Justice, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Ranking Digital Rights, #Wikimedia Foundation, #TorProject, and lots more

#KOSA would also weaken the digital security of young people by effectively forcing platforms to conduct identity verification (some 3rd party providers are already chomping at the bit to do this with facial recognition, get your face scanned every time you visit a site) @mmasnick wrote about this: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/29/age-verification-providers-say-dont-worry-about-california-design-code-youll-just-have-to-scan-your-face-for-every-website-you-visit/

Online community is a lifeline for many LGBTQ+ teens and young people, especially those with unsupportive or abusive parents. #KOSA would rip that away from them, while subjecting them to further surveillance and invasion. That's prob the point for bill sponsor
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who regularly attacks #transgender kids and teens as part of her speeches. The right wing Heritage Foundation is openly saying this will "stop Big Tech from making kids trans." Barf.

It's not hard to imagine how an AG like #KenPaxton, or the AG of #Arkansas who is currently on a mission to attack #trans and #nonbinary kids, will interpret this new authority. They'll use it to demand that platforms #censor #LGBTQ+ content and ban kids and teens from accessing it.

#KOSA has a lot of the same problems as #SESTA / #FOSTA and the #EARNitAct. It creates broad, poorly defined legal requirements that involve the government in dictating content moderation and content recommendation practices, and then leaves it up to state AGs to enforce.

There have been widespread rumors that Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) and other Dems are pushing hard to include this disastrous bill in the "must pass" omnibus spending package.

That cannot and must not happen. This bill would be weaponized by rightwing AGs to target LGBTQ+ community online.

Here's our press release: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-11-28-new-more-than-90-human-rights-and-lgbtq-groups-sign-letter-opposing-kosa

Gonna xpost my #thread from the birdsite to add context.

This letter was led by CDT, EFF, and @team

NEW: More than 90 #humanrights and #LGBTQ groups have sent a letter to Congressional leadership opposing #KOSA the poorly named and terribly drafted "Kids Online Safety Act," which would make kids less safe and harm marginalized communities. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/kids-online-safety-act-may-harm-minors-civil-society-groups-warn.html

For those that joined #Mastodon and grabbed the first server they could find, but would prefer to #migrate to a different one, I created a short guide on how to do this quickly and easily.
It also allows you to easily move any followers across to your new profile and leaves a redirection on your old profile for those that find it to help them get to your new one. 😁👍

I'd love if you could share it among your networks to help those that will invariably need it later on.
https://youtu.be/BpI-SplOXVE

Twitter encrypted DMs will adopt open-source Signal protocol, suggests iOS code https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/28/twitter-encrypted-dms-2/

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

@andyn @taylorlorenz making a user-grab while ignoring actual usability and choosing to exclude whole swathes of users dependent on accessibility will get them a quick up tick in numbers, them a bunch of complaints that it's not working well, them the initial interest drops as folk lose faith in it.

Feels like they're just chasing growth for growth's sake, & we know how that ends sooner or later.

The founder of Post said today that the company is explicitly *not* focused on accessibility. Disappointing to read something like this in 2022
#tech #technology #Disability #twitter #postnews #twittermigration

PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet. As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web. tl;dr avoid Hive and Post. If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can...
https://jwz.org/b/yj62

#ReasonMagazine’s guide to #Mastodon

https://reason.com/2022/11/25/mystified-by-mastodon-were-here-to-help/

@enbrown #twitter #fediverse #socialmedia #decentralization

More here: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4498