> Allowing Meta et al to run amok unchecked on America's youth KOSA will implement government-mandated censorship against any content that is believed to trigg

> Allowing Meta et al to run amok unchecked on America's youth KOSA will implement government-mandated censorship against any content that is believed to trigger anxiety or depression, which is not an effective way to aid minors. In fact, over 90 human rights organizations have concluded that KOSA's censorship regime would be detrimental to minors: > KOSA establishes a burdensome, vague “duty of care” to prevent harms to minors for a broad range of online services that are reasonably likely to be used by a person under the age of 17. While KOSA’s aims of preventing harassment, exploitation, and mental health trauma for minors are laudable, the legislation is unfortunately likely to have damaging unintended consequences for young people. KOSA would require online services to “prevent” a set of harms to minors, which is effectively an instruction to employ broad content filtering to limit minors’ access to certain online content. Content filtering is notoriously imprecise; filtering used by schools and libraries in response to the Children’s Internet Protection Act has curtailed access to critical information such as sex education or resources for LGBTQ+ youth. Online services would face substantial pressure to over-moderate, including from state Attorneys General seeking to make political points about what kind of information is appropriate for young people. At a time when books with LGBTQ+ themes are being banned from school libraries and people providing healthcare to trans children are being falsely accused of “grooming,” KOSA would cut off another vital avenue of access to information for vulnerable youth. 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-... I'm also not impressed with how you are suggesting that people who oppose KOSA are pro-Meta. I do not use any Meta services and I have criticized Meta's privacy abuses for many years. KOSA's censorship mandate does not improve anyone's privacy in any way, and may actually benefit Meta by enlarging its moat since smaller competing social network services may not have the necessary budget or staffing needed to implement the censorship. > And hell, in the majority of those states, the general assemblies will almost certainly pass much more explicitly worded statutes about displaying trans content to children. The fact that some U.S. states are already limiting LGBT discourse by banning books is not a good reason to pass KOSA, a broadly worded federal bill that would be used to further hinder access to LGBT resources nationwide.