long story short (for anyone who hadn't heard of this before) the kids online safety act, aka kosa, is a bill that will censor online content and resources for lgbtq+ matters, reproductive healthcare, activism (INCLUDING PALESTINE AND LIKELY OTHER CRISES GOING ON LIKE IN CONGO OR SUDAN), mental health, etc. everywhere--its effects likely won't be contained to just america.
today, july 30th, 2024, the senate passed it 91-3. it has officially moved to the house of representatives.
is this a pretty massive setback? yes. do you have every right to be scared, sad, angry, or whatever else about this happening? absolutely. but should you give up hope completely? NO!
even though kosa passed the senate, the house is on break/august recess at the moment. we have around an entire month to get emails, calls, and faxes in to house reps, maybe more depending on when they decide to vote on it.
should it pass the house and get signed into law, we still have a whole 18 months before it actually goes into effect. this is plenty of time for digital rights orgs (e.g. fight for the future, the electronic frontier foundation) and other groups that oppose it to file a lawsuit against it. even if, worst-case scenario, it flies through the house immediately after the recess ends, we can still fight this up to march 2026.
so, yes, remember what's at stake here, but also remember that it's not over yet. we lost a battle, not the war.
below are some resources to learn more about kosa and how to contact your reps (first link) + a page that lets you directly contact progressive house reps, sign an open letter opposing the bill, and view others' testimonies against it (second link):
FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT.
Original comic by Rasenth
Skit/Incorrect quote moment for this idea
Entity!MC: "Hey Ace. How does baking work here? Trey told me that no one here microwaves milk to make cheese. How do human mages pasturize milk to make cheeze then?
Ace: "MC.....have you ever been to a grocery store?"
Entity!MC: "You mean like a normal human one? Where eyes aren't stored in a bag to be cooked?"
Ace: "..."
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Okay. SO I like to think about Twisted Wonderland being a world of entities existing and a human stumbles upon it. But imagine it the other way around for a moment. An entity (either with or without powers) coming from some sort of liminal dream world, somehow stumbling into an all boys mage education institution. Just like
Entity!MC: "Ah.....where am I?"
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Just....imagine that with me for a moment.
AGANDHAJSBAJSBJAS THAT'S AMAZING! GENIUS! BRAVO, 10/10
I can see this version of Yuu having a camera for a head maybe. Or an oddly obscured head that looks like one of those images where they overlay a ton of people's faces over each other to get the average appearance, except a lot of them are misaligned and constantly shifting - so it looks vaguely human-sghaped but it's twitching and turning but also staying in place and you can't recognise any features idk lol
THE GLITCHED OUT SCREAM IS THEM COOING AT HIM BECAUSE HIS SO GD LITTLE
Yuu would be kinda in-between the height of Idia and Ortho but Grim would be like an actual kitty for them! They can still be magicless, but maybe they still warp reality around themself when they interact with the world around them. Ace breaks an egg when they're standing too close and the spiders thing happens to him. Yuu gets cheese like Weirdcore Trey did and baffles Trey severely.
Crowley can't threaten them into helping with Octavinelle because he doesn't want to be known as the guy who let Yuu loose in their world - but they get caught up in everything anyway because they're curious to a fault and also their kitty is being hurt by some bastards.
They think human hair looks edible at one point and tries to take a bite out of Riddle's ahoge. They get a long lecture about it lmao.
I wonder if it'd be better to have Weirdcore Yuu be slightly younger actually... That way they'd only be about 7 feet tall and they can act more childishly - which could be even funnier for the TWST cast to deal with. Like, what do you mean they're bigger than Malleus (HORNS INCLUDED) and they're only, like, 10 or something. They're still growing!? When do they stop growing!?
The bill now has a total of 62 co-sponsors (Dems and Republicans). They purportedly rewrote the bill to "address concerns", but the bill would still require you to upload your govt ID and use an age-gate in order to access information on the web.
LGBT+ advocacy organizations such as the Trevor Project, GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG National, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and National Center for Transgender Rights, withdrawn their opposition against the bill.
We have until next week (2/26/24), maybe, to get louder about this.
badinternetbills
call 202-224-3121
tell your story at eff.org
please consider making a short video using the hashtags #KOSALies, #SocialMediaSavedMyLife
visit omarsbigsister on TikTok for more KOSA updates and action items
Don't just reblog this. Interact with the above items. Use your best judgement when writing in or calling your reps. Just let them know you oppose this and the ramifications it could have for your internet privacy, personal security, and the safety of youths.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/16hSogPulZskEYNeDQ06VsRxT6XJAwEYsGQCqfrM5hGs/mobilebasic
https://t.co/6wVuzqVCAC
http://gofundme.com/f/careforgaza
https://friendsofthecongo.org
https://www.actionagainsthunger.org
https://linktr.ee/TalkAboutSudan?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=dafde36f-7ae1-48be-b0fd-0feb7658468b
http://gofund.me/3c569d5d
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-refugee-and-earthquake-victim-children
https://theanalysis.news/haitian-ruling-families-create-and-kill-monsters/
TBA
https://t.co/CcL66xDLdO
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48633488
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Can't wait for the uniqueness of the holocaust to be a topic of importance in a political campaign in america in 2024. That's how it should be. That's normal
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