Had To Get This Out Of My Head, Hope It Helps Someone!

I don't often make serious original posts, but I am legitimately worried about the KOSA situation and everyone should be too. I think most people are not understanding what's going on with this. I don't see much people talking about it, and they SHOULD. You all should care. Here are some of my biggest worries.

KOSA wants to give parents access to their kids' text messages. From what I saw, it would have an extra cost and they'd need the kids' "consent". But come on, if the parents are controlling or even abusing they could definitely force the kid to "agree" against their will. Also, if they don't properly explain the situation to the kids, they might give blind consent. Think about all the very private texts you send to your close friends, and the texts your friends send to you. Think how humiliating or even dangerous it could be if your parents read them.

This is supposed to prevent bullying and stuff like that, but what if the kid is in the closet and has homophobic/transphobic parents. What if the parents are racist and don't want the kid talking to their poc friends. What if the parents are very religious and the kid is an atheist/agnostic. What if the parents are pro Israel and the kid is pro Palestine. This would be an excessive and unacceptable invasion of privacy.

Kids and teens who are/are questioning if they are queer would not have access to any resources and queer-positive spaces. Lots of queer people can only be openly queer online. Even if they come from accepting families, they may just not be ready to be out yet. Every queer person should have the right to explore their identity in their own terms.

This includes intersex kids with bigoted parents who wouldn't have access to help, sources, information, intersex-positive spaces, support groups, etc.

KOSA would also restrict access to sources about mental health.

This would take away the right and opportunity for kids and teens to protest, manifest and boycott.

Teenagers wouldn't have access to information about anything sex related. I'm not only talking about porn and smutty fanfiction (tho I do believe teens deserve access to this as well.) I mean teens from extremely conservative families wouldn't have access to information about safe sex, consent, planned parenthood, what to do in case of STDs, etc.

Many 15 and 16 year olds have sex, or want to have sex, and they should have access to these sources. Restricting the access to sexual education will not stop teens from having sex, but it will probably lead them to do it unsafely and take uneducated decisions about it.

Pregnant teenagers wouldn't have access to information about safe abortion. KOSA would probably take the decision away from them.

If a kid is going through a complicated or even dangerous situation at home they wouldn't be able to rant about it/seek help online.

Kids and teens couldn't have any online friends.

Kids and teens' social media presence and activity would be totally monitored and controlled.

Same as their google history.

KOSA would either take down or restrict access to websites like tumblr, ao3, wattpad, discord, etc.

This affects all of us btw. Ao3 is based in the us, if they take the whole site down we are all screwed. Hopefully they would either become age-restricted or relocate in a different country.

But even if they do that, lots of ao3 writers are usamerican minors. Lots of ao3 readers are usamerican minors.

Lots of fanartist are usamerican minors.

Some of my dear mutuals and online friends are usamerican minors.

This is bad. Please sign the petitions.

Fight for the Future

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr

Change.org

Sign the Petition

STOP THE KOSA

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Yeahh!!

be free!!

GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

(IMPORTANT UPDATE: Kosa will not necessarily pass on the 26th. It only has the support to pass in Senate, and we STILL HAVE TIME. That being said, time is of the essence.)

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

Reblog if you think KOSA is unfair and shouldn't be anyone's problem -- including the adults ALL OVER THE DAMN EARTH forced to face the mass censorship it causes because "think of the American Children!".

Reblog if you support internet activism and Palestine.

Reblog if you hate fascism or censorship, and don't want actually serious and helpful conversations censored on the internet.

Reblog if you value the internet in any way at all whatsoever.

CHECK THIS PETITION, TOO! https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-kosa?recruiter=1331807538&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&recruited_by_id=57368c40-d0fd-11ee-98f7-2175430f819f&share_bandit_exp=initial-36809664-en-US

(Also, please reblog with at least "stop kosa" as a tag and not "kosa". I made the mistake of not adding just "kosa" as a tag...)

We won't let this stand any longer. Let's start a riot and get this trending.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize,  snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”. 

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

Yumn 😋

Yeah undertale and deltatune are pretty cool

yes they are I played deltarune on my switch the second I knew it was free and was finished in an hour and a half, I dedicated a whole 2 years and a half or more of my life to being an undertale kid, I STILL follow blogs that make comics for UT/DR, I eagerly await the release of deltarune chapter 3, and more!

I'm very normal about undertale and deltarune