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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

🚨THE KIDS ACT IS AN INTERNET SURVEILLANCE BILL🚨 Congress is rushing the KIDS Act toward a vote. This blend of KOSA, the SCREEN Act, SAFE Bots, and other bills is a single package that is a threat to privacy and free expression for ALL internet users. 🧵(1/10)

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will 🪪Push online services to verify users’ ages 🏛️Require government-directed moderation policies for online speech 🔐Create new rules about private and encrypted communications (2/10)

Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

Supporters claim this bill protects minors online, but this “protection” comes at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of ALL ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data. (3/10)

Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

The new version of KOSA says it doesn’t require age verification, but it also obligates sites and apps to take reasonable steps to determine whether a user is a minor or an adult. How will they do it? By collecting more information about age before a lawsuit happens. (4/10)

Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

Services will have to collect licenses or passports, or they’ll rely on age estimation services, which often make mistakes when guessing the ages of people of color, people with disabilities, and trans and nonbinary people. (5/10)

Hikari Mao
@hikari-mao.bsky.social

these bills are about chilling dissent against government officials and offices, the ability for citizens to freely share ideas and information a and organizing against fascism by exercising freedom of speech rights Politicians supporting this are traitors to the Constitution and oath of office.