THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 4h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

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✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3h ago

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While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 3h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

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The SCREEN act sounded horrible so glad it's dead for the time being, but KOSA and others are still a possibility, so don't stop fighting!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 4h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Here's @fightforthefuture.org press statement from the hearing today www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-08...

Senate Commerce passes censorship bill KOSA out of committee, SCREEN Act fails

Fight for the Future is a digital rights organization that has been leading coalitions of human rights, LGBTQ, reproductive rights, and digital rights organizations opposed to the Kids Online Safety A...

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And we need to break the stranglehold that a few 80 year old white politicians have over this issue. We need to develop thoughtful champions in Congress who actually understand how technology works and how it can be regulated. We have a lot of work to do. Join us. fightforthefuture.org/donate

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And we need thought leadership. Right wing bigot Jonathan Haidt has the best-selling book on the topic of kids online for years running. We need books, podcasts, keynotes etc from actual experts and people who believe young people have basic rights to free expression and privacy

Most people are primed to believe that censorship and surveillance lead to more safety. Anytime we get into a debate between "freedom" and "safety" we are always going to lose. The digital rights movement needs to chart a new path and show how we can stop Big Tech without trashing human rights.

We @fightforthefuture.org and our growing coalition have been beating back these misguided "protect the children" internet censorship and surveillance bills for literally 10+ years. We're good at it! And we can keep doing it. But to really win on this, we have to radically shift the narrative

In the end, it's really good that the SCREEN ACT didn't advance. In a lot of ways that was a more real threat than KOSA, which has been mired in controversy for years and is almost certainly going to die in conference between the House and Senate. But also: we're playing whack-o-mole

It's still a little unclear exactly what happened but it seems like several members of the committee stayed out of the room on purpose in order to sink the vote on SCREEN ACT (without having to go on the record voting against the save the children bill) master classes in bravery we're seeing here

Here's some more good news from today's hearing: it seems like the SCREEN ACT totally failed. This was one of the most dangerous bills being considered: it would have created an Internet-wide ID check regime that would be a censorship and surveillance nightmare for marginalized communities.

Despite all the rhetoric about "reining in Big Tech" we heard today, it's essential to understand the push for this "kids safety" legislation as something that most Big Tech companies WANT. Microsoft, OpenAI, Snap, X, Apple, and now Meta all support KOSA because it benefits their monopoly status

But here's the thing: the Senate version of KOSA they just advanced is wildly different from the House version of KOSA they advanced as part of the KIDS Act. The committee knows they can't be reconciled This is theater not substance. They want to say they "protected the kids" without doing anything

First, the bad news: as predicted the committee unanimously advanced the Kids Online Safety Act or KOSA. It's particularly embarrassing that progressive Democrats allowed this to advance on a voice vote despite opposition from human rights, LGBTQ+, racial justice, and civil liberties organizations.

THREAD: Here's what happened in today's "We are exploiting peoples' legitimate fears around kids online safety to advance dangerous censorship and surveillance legislation" hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee... 🧵

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