Anita D. Nath
@adn87.bsky.social
Attorney. Parent. Member of the Silly Goose Club. "and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence." - John Geddes
KOSA sounds like it protects kids. But the actual bill text delivers paperwork protections for platforms, mandates new data collection on minors, and builds surveillance infrastructure and calls it child safety. Parents should stay in control. Not government mandates. You are the firewall.
Different stories but the same authoritarian & patriarchal habits of exploitation & impunity. Domination is protection, intentions & ambitions are a substitute for accountability, people who expose harm are punished & vilified, & consequences are imposed on less powerful people as costs of progress.
August 2026: The Latest in Tech Authoritarianism
The Senate advances KOSA, Big Tech CEOs escape the witness chair, Meta’s secret $10 million political check, Boz’s threat against leakers, a disturbing employee arrest, and the cost of the AI boom
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Big Tech lobbyists are pushing to federally ban state AI guardrails—a move that would strip local authority and leave workers vulnerable. We cannot let Congress tie the hands of states keeping workers safe. 📖 Read why: https://bit.ly/4fYpuK9 #WorkersFirstAI
ISSUE BRIEF: BANNING STATE AI REGULATIONS HARMS WORKERS
Updated June 5, 2026: Attempts to ban state regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) are dangerous and pose a significant threat to working people who are dealing with an onslaught of AI without app...
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——————————————————————- Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. By Tressie McMillan Cottom (thx for the gift!)
Antonio Vieira Santos@antonio.wsocial.eu · 2h agoWant to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
We know where we are at with Big Tech and the addictive algorithms that harm our kids. But do we know how we got here? How far back the corporate power and greed goes? Aaron Ping's fascinating and timely podcast explores this and so much more. tiny.cc/si34101
NO to KOSA and the SCREEN Act: Tell Sen. Cantwell not to shield Big Tech from accountability and put LGBTQ+ teens at risk (1/2) The Senate Commerce committee has a markup this Wednesday (August 5) on KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and a few other bills. Sen. Cantwell is the Ranking Member, and we want […]
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Lawmakers must include a duty of care in online safety legislation. Without it, Big Tech can continue avoiding responsibility for the harms they cause to kids. That's why we joined 60+ organizations urging the U.S. Senate to only consider bills with this standard. Kids deserve to be safe online.
As I'm researching public health risks/harms across Canadian populations from digital engagement, it's overwhelmingly clear how much Big Tech lobbying happens to keep the federal policy environment permissive for harms their products cause to Canadians' health & well-being.
Under Trump: -An ExxonMobil lawyer runs DOJ's Environment division -An Amazon executive runs OSHA -A crypto and prediction markets lawyer runs the CFTC -A private prison executive runs ICE The list goes on... The revolving door is spinning out of control.
“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”
The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible
The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.
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How AI destroys democracy. Lecture by the philosopher Ziad Mahayni. In German. Interesting. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Big Tech - Wie Künstliche Intelligenz die Demokratie zerstört
Podcast Episode · Hörsaal - Deutschlandfunk Nova · 10 July · 1hr 9min
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The KIDS Act passed the House. But some worry differences between the House and Senate version could be exploited by tech companies. trib.al/ZAkrcid
The Bill That Pits House Against Senate Against Big Tech
The KIDS Act passed the House. But some worry differences between the House and Senate version could be exploited by tech companies.
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Today, I voted NO on the KIDS Act and remain dedicated to working across the aisle to negotiate legislation that will create meaningful change to protect kids — not half measures that allow Big Tech to harm our children.
A ban is a symbolic reset, writes Maeve Walsh of the Online Safety Act Network, but treating social media harms as a product safety failure—not just age-gating and hoping for the best—gets at the root, and it's already doable under the UK’s existing Online Safety Act.
The New UK Prime Minister Inherits a Social Media Ban. The Real Goal Is Safety by Design.
Embedding safety by design is the only way to ensure substantive reduction of harms, argues Online Safety Act Network director Maeve Walsh.
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Ok folks, let's all stop the KIDS act immediately. We have until the live voting. Flood the floors with constant and angry calls and emails. We can't let censorship and surveillance win.
“The House is trying to pass a bad bill. A bad bill will only add to the illusion of safety, because then parents will trust that their kids are safer." - Tricia Maciejewski on why the KIDS Act in the House fails to adequately protect children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT9F...
Tricia Maciejewski at press event opposing the KIDS Act in the House
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I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org For once,I've actually gotten ahold of people at @golden.house.gov 's Washington DC and Maine offices, and made it VERY clear that he should OPPOSE The KIDS Act, which includes KOSA. Keep those calls going and your voices heard!
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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“Parents like me will not support the House[‘s] KIDS Act, but we will support the Senate version of the Kids Online Safety Act” – Lori Schott, the mother of a child who died by suicide after interacting with self-harm videos on social media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnw...
Lori Schott at press event opposing the KIDS Act in the House
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“The House KIDS Act is a slap in the face to all the parents who have fought so hard for years to pass meaningful legislation to protect kids online.” - Kristin Bride on why the Senate’s KOSA is a stronger bill to protect children online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5V...
Kristin Bride at press event opposing the KIDS Act in the House
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The KIDS Act gives Big Tech a major win instead of protecting children. Today, tell your Representative to vote NO. Join the coalition of 90+ organizations by signing the letter. Stand with the families who have lost children to online harms. Stand against Big Tech.
Congress: Vote NO on a KIDS Act That Protects Big Tech, Not Kids
House leadership just announced a deal to bring the KIDS Act to a floor vote. We need your help to stop it. We are parents who lost children to social media harms--to eating disorders, sextortion, suicide, and other preventable online harms. For years,...
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Only about 90 minutes remain to contact your representative to vote NO on the "Kids Act" containing the prior "Kids Online Safety Act", a trojan horse for mass surveillance infrastructure and the criminalization of independent online community. Don't let them destroy the promise of the Internet!
Four SCOTUS rulings. An Epstein deadline. Hungry kids. House Republicans too corrupt to govern. This week’s Digital Drumbeat cuts through the noise and tells you exactly what they don’t want you to see. Eyes open. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
What They Want You to Miss This Week
Four SCOTUS rulings. An Epstein deadline. Hungry kids. House Republicans too corrupt to govern. Here’s what they don’t want you to see.
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@repkimschrier.bsky.social please do the right thing and vote NO on the KIDS Act! We are outside your offices in Issaquah right now letting people know that this HB has no duty of care that will just allow these companies to keep hurting our kids!
this is a story about a person who fled to seattle because their life was threatened because of who they are, the other a person who fled seattle because he was a selfish and entitled person who felt out of place these are not the same www.npr.org/2026/06/08/n...
The red state, blue state divide is real. But it's driven by more than just politics
Recent research suggests there's more going on with "ideological sorting" than simply moving to places that match one's politics. It's often one of many deciding factors, such as taxes or safety.
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1. A network of purportedly progressive super PACs, spending millions in Democratic primaries across the country, is funded by a Republican dark money group, the American Prosperity Alliance (APA).
UPDATE: The money behind a network of sham “progressive” super PACs
A network of purportedly progressive super PACs, spending millions in Democratic primaries across the country, is funded by a Republican dark money group, the American Prosperity Alliance (APA).
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To Fix Social Media, Make Companies Pay the Price of Compulsive Use journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/2026/06/... by @epic.org's Hayden Davis
To Fix Social Media, Make Companies Pay the Price of Compulsive Use – Harvard Journal on Legislation
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‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...
Lawmakers cement bipartisan deal for kids online safety package
The new package complicates a separate push for a kids safety bill coming from the Senate.
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This Social Media Harms Victim Remembrance Day #SMVRD, lean on evidence-based resources investigating social media’s impact on mental health outcomes for children and teens with the new Research-at-a-Glance on “Social Media and Youth Mental Health.” 🔗 https://bit.ly/4eBWPKb
