| ▲ | dmitrygr 5 days ago |
| I look forward to the current us admin forcing the uk to very publicly walk this back. Their motivation will have nothing to do with defending free speech, but an enemy of my enemy IS my friend. |
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| ▲ | krona 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| S.1748 - Kids Online Safety Act[1] is working its way through and as I understand it has fairly broad support. There may be significant differences between KOSA and OSA in their implementation but they are the same in essence. [1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/174... |
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| ▲ | laughing_man 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | KOSA is one of those bills that gets introduced in every session (sometimes under different names) without any chance of passing. | |
| ▲ | thorncorona 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Honestly from the summary this seems pretty.. reasonable? | | |
| ▲ | whatshisface 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | If the limitations on conducting A/B tests on people under 13 are enforced, you will need a driver's license to connect to the internet, and you will need to show it to every website. | | |
| ▲ | chmod775 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Companies don't need A/B tests to tell them that requiring a driver's license is going to hurt conversions more than no more A/B tests. | |
| ▲ | opan 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Surely a state ID is enough, right? I know at least 3 legal adults in my circles alone without a driver's license, though I believe they all have either a state ID or permit. (Not that I support requiring any sort of meatspace identification for acting in cyberspace). |
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| ▲ | happymellon 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | But it's literally the same thing. > This bill requires covered online platforms, including social media platforms, to implement tools and safeguards to protect users and visitors under the age of 17. What is an "online platform", and how would they know the visitor is under 17? | |
| ▲ | crooked-v 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What the summary leaves out is that elements of it like 'harm to minors' have loopholes you could drive a truck through. It's designed to allow arbitrary censorship of wrongthink with 'think of the children' as cover. | |
| ▲ | jaimex2 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The devil is always in the detail. |
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| ▲ | basisword 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >> I look forward to the current us admin forcing the uk to very publicly walk this back He'll need to start first with taking action at home. Florida and I believe Texas have also implemented age restrictions for various websites and did so before the UK. So maybe they're not your friend. |
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| ▲ | croes 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But the predator of your predator isn’t your protector, just a bigger predator. The current US administration isn’t pro free speech, they just use other tools to prevent it. UK uses laws, US uses money respectively the lack of money for you if your speech doesn’t suit them. US free speech has a price tag. |
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| ▲ | _carbyau_ 4 days ago | parent [-] | | > But the predator of your predator isn’t your protector, just a bigger predator. That line sounds like the start of a counter to "Won't somebody think of the children." |
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| ▲ | monkey_monkey 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You're joking right? https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126 Mississpi is a pretty Republican state and has enacted even more stringent and privacy-invasive laws. |
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| ▲ | dmix 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Mississippi is forcing wikipedia, 4chan, a ton of other sites to have ID uploads? |
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| ▲ | cyanydeez 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The us is on a parallel track
You will be underwhelmed. |
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| ▲ | lupusreal 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | bediger4000 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Hard disagree. Trump can apparently be bribed. This could be solved by a discrete transfer of cryptocurrency to a specific Maltese or Transnistrian wallet. | | |
| ▲ | lupusreal 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Just how much revenue do you think 4chan gets, from the UK of all places? I can't imagine this being worth a bribe to Hiro. | | |
| ▲ | bediger4000 5 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm not sure what size bribes the current administration takes. I'm sure that in some situations haggling takes place. Trump, as a professed Christian, could possibly take a "widow's mites" approach to a bribe from 4chan. | | |
| ▲ | lupusreal 4 days ago | parent [-] | | If anything, it is in 4chan's interest to be banned by UK ISPs since this will induce the sale of a few more passes, which permit posting from VPNs. Anyway, 4chan barely keeps the lights on as it is. Worrying about 4chan bribing politicians is absurd. Either politicians will help 4chan out of some sense of self-interest, or they won't help at all. | | |
| ▲ | filoleg 4 days ago | parent [-] | | > If anything, it is in 4chan's interest to be banned by UK ISPs since this will induce the sale of a few more passes, which permit posting from VPNs. I sense a bit of a flaw in this strategy, given that 4chan being banned in UK would presumably block any payments for passes from UK-origin banks/cards made to 4chan bank accounts as well. | | |
| ▲ | lupusreal 4 days ago | parent [-] | | 4chan no longer accepts any such payment anyway. They only take crypto through coinbase. |
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| ▲ | wmf 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't know if 4chan can afford to bribe Trump and they might be better off taking the martyr approach. Being banned in the UK adds some cachet. |
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| ▲ | ecocentrik 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | DaSHacka 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Sounds like their parents outta start doing their job, then. | | |
| ▲ | immibis 4 days ago | parent [-] | | This is a thought-terminating cliche. | | |
| ▲ | DaSHacka 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Still a better alternative than censoring the entire internet because its not inherently safe for children. | | |
| ▲ | immibis 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Thought-terminating cloches are not a better alternative to anything. | | |
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