SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 11h 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!

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 · 9h ago

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

KEEP BEING ON THEIR NECKS YALL. KEEP BEING RELENTLESS!!! CALL CALL CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WE DO NOT WANT THESE BILLS!!! GOOD JOB TO EVERYONE THAT DID CALL, EMAIL, FAX AND KEPT AT IT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND DON'T LOOSE YOUR LIGHT!! #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #freespeech

Updated #KOSA news here! Tldr: -Senate KOSA passed the markup, onto the Senate floor it goes. -The SCREEN Act had majority votes (15-13) BUT it didn't pass due to attendence failure. They want to do a revote on it so THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER. WE DELAYED THE SCREEN ACT. #KidsOnlineSafetyAct

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 9h ago

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

keep calling and making sure they know that any version of KOSA is unacceptable and if necessary will be met with revolutionary action should it become law www.badinternetbills.com

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Now is not the time to back down. We need an overwhelm of calls going in to lawmakers this week. Call and call again tomorrow! 📲 www.badinternetbills.com

To be clear, the Senate version of KOSA passed today is completely different than the House version that passed earlier this year, making it very unlikely to become law. The Senate knows this yet they are committing to the farce of acting on kids safety.

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

Tech: KOSA heads to Senate floor

The Senate Commerce Committee sent the Kids Online Safety Act to the floor on Wednesday, alongside three other bills designed to protect kids and teens using technology.

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This is especially true for LGBTQ+ youth who need online communities now more than ever to connect, organize & find resources that are being restricted by the Trump administration & rightwing state governments. Read our full statement here: 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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Despite the usual and continued insistence that KOSA protects kids, the duty of care enforced by a Trump FTC would be a censorship & surveillance nightmare.

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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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... 🧵

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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hiksmash@hiksmash.blacksky.app · 3d ago

What is PBS Kids doing telling 3rd graders to use Ai to write a poem???

Together, these bills would allow Trump’s FTC to wipe abortion, sex ed, & LGBTQ resources off the Internet while instating nationwide age verification requirements. This could mean scanning your face or sending in your government ID just to post on Bluesky! ❌ Take action: fftf.link/bib

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‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665

Keep the calls up this week, especially today and tomorrow as the senate comm is going to have a mark up for senate kids (and screen act I believe) #savespeech #stopKOSA

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

With the Senate version of KOSA and the SCREEN Act getting marked up in the Senate committee this week we need to call our Senators now and tell them to vote these bills and all of the age verification bills down! #savespeech #freespeech #notodiaitallD #notoKIDSAct #noKOSA

SnepShark 🔞@snepshark.bsky.social · 3d ago

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Called my Senators earlier and explained to them why this is bad since the vote is coming up soon and hopefully y'all do as well. All of these age verification bills need to be voted down now! #savespeech #freespeech #notodigitalID #notoKIDSAct #noKOSA

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

art fight is over now which means i am back to doing my regular art routine… is that a jojo reference!?!? #objectshows #osc #objectshowcommunity #art