This Bill Threatens Access to LGBTQ+ Online Communities.::Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fanfic site loved by young LGBTQ+ people, was compromised by hackers. But the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is the real threat.
‘New law threatens trans communities’ should probably be a news article template by now.
Transphobia, so hot right now. Do lawmakers not have anything better to be doing?
Same playbook used throughout history, we need to make you safer by taking away your right to privacy and access to communities you identify with. Without the LGBTQ+ community center in my hometown I doubt I would have survived young adulthood. That was a physical space funded by a non-profit, now that so much of our access to community is online the authoritarians from both parties in the US can just remove communities they don’t like assisted by legislation like this.
Kids shouldn’t even be on the Internet. If they get access and ruin themselves from stumbling apon some fucked up shit. That’s on them and their parents 🤷
Downvotes are just proving some of you guys are fucking weird wanting kids online. Probs those weirdos over at beehaw.
They shouldn’t, but we aren’t putting this genie back in the bottle. There are kids who already grew up since the 2010s having phones with internet access, who already are adults, and that’s not going to change.
Rather than pointing fingers at the parents and the parents pointing fingers at the world we could take a moment to acknowledge that the horror scenario already came to pass and it turned out mostly fine.
Frankly these days old people with phones believing every nonsense they read worry me even more.
