Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA

Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by adventured on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:47PM (#39386660)

In that article, the Washington Post has this marketing text (pushing a newsletter):

"Tech is not your friend. We are. Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter."

Wtf is going on. As usual it's not tech bringing on the dystopian, it's the supposed do-gooders on the peripheral of tech and railing against it, including in the government. They're the new temperance movement people and this is another one of their mistargeted, misguided 'moral' crusades.

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by tempestn on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:50PM (#39386710)

There's also an embedded editorial video singing the praises of the bill.

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by hindsightbias on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:47PM (#39387605)

Jerry Falwell won, he just never realized progressives would be the ones to cement his legacy.

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by cvalka on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:52PM (#39389550)

100℅. They converge on porn, prostitution, etc.

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by wolverine876 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:13PM (#39389875)

How do progressives and the religious right agree on prostitution?

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by hindsightbias on Thursday February 15, 2024 @07:35PM (#39391434)

You mean human trafficking.

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by wolverine876 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @08:23PM (#39391851)

Progressives generally protect sex workers, IME, and argue against their prosecution.

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by cvalka on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:23PM (#39392817)

Progressives want to prosecute evil men (paid sex consumers).

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by wolverine876 on Friday February 16, 2024 @12:08AM (#39393409)

Not as far as I know: most progressives want to legalize sex work. (Of course, it's hard to paint any group with just one brush.)

They want to prosecute people who abuse prostitutes. Progressive DAs where prostitution is illegal do focus more on the customers, if that's what you mean. How is that similar to the religious right - I've never heard them say that.

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by cvalka on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:21PM (#39392804)

The religious right believe it's immoral. Progressives believe it's an exploitation of women. They are now both playing a silly game of PR labelling prostitution = human trafficking

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Re:Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA by wolverine876 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:14PM (#39389891)

Could you apply that theory to this situation? It seems pretty dystopian now, sans regulation.

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