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I noticed that you haven't bothered to reply to any of my reasons for supporting KOSA, or any of the observations about factual inaccuracies or exaggerations in
by ke88y 3y ago
I noticed that you haven't bothered to reply to any of my reasons for supporting KOSA, or any of the observations about factual inaccuracies or exaggerations in the EFF post.
There exist people who disagree with you and who aren't paid PR shills. Like me. I feel strongly about a bill that you don't like. It's possible to have an adult conversation about the merits of the bill without accusing literally everyone who disagrees with you of astrofurfing.
The accusation of astroturfing -- which BY DEFINITION involves fake identities -- is particularly ironic in this thread where the ONLY non-anonymous comment is from a supporter.
You're like the person who says that they can't believe that some candidate or another won and election because they have literally never met a person in their life who would vote for that candidate.
I've explained my reasons for supporting this bill at length. Instead of responding to my long and substantive rebuttals about the EFF's claims, you're name calling.
I'm not going to convince you. That's fine. Others can read the EFF post, them read my comments here, then read the bill, and form their own opinion.
(Also: two can play at this ridiculously juvenile game. I would not be surprised if Meta et al. astrofurf comment sections on topcis like this. For every one person like me, there are dozens of low-effort paranoid comments designed to direct the hive mind away from regulating Meta's bullshit.)
- commoner 3y agoMeta would be thrilled to see KOSA pass, since it the time and effort required to censor any content alleged to trigger anxiety or depression would cause smaller social networks to be infeasible to run. How is a Mastodon instance supposed to operate when its volunteer moderators' workload is compounded by KOSA's censorship mandate? The EFF has raised many good points about how KOSA's censorship mandate would harm people under 18. Calling the EFF's well-reasoned arguments "FUD" and labeling people who oppose KOSA a "hive mind" is not a substitute for engaging with the facts at hand. If KOSA is as innocuous as you are claiming it is, then explain in detail how a website covered under this bill could "prevent and mitigate" anxiety or depression to comply with the bill without the use of censorship. The EFF is not the only organization that opposes KOSA. There are over 90 more who have signed this letter condemning KOSA, including the ACLU, Yale Privacy Lab, GLAAD, and the Human Trafficking Prevention Project: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-11-28-letter-90-lgbtq-and-human-rights-organizations-oppose-kosa https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-11-28-letter-90-...