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@audiopaws.bsky.social

I know change.org petitions don't do much but it would help show how many people do not want this type of dystopian nightmare c.org/4sBGcKKvYm

#NoToAgeVerification #Savefreespeech #Stopcensorship

Sign the Petition

Stop the implementation of digital ID systems

www.change.org

December 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM

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Spectrotica 🏳️‍🌈⚣🔞

@spectrotica247.bsky.social

Like all of you, as a queer NSFW writer I am so SICK of having to worry every single damn day about boomers and septuagenarians in Congress writing laws about things they do not understand, weaponizing "protect the children" to erase our safe haven like AO3 and watch us suffer! #stopkosa #savespeech

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 4d

"Many states have done what Congress refuses to: pass meaningful laws that increase privacy and protect rights... Preemption undoes all that work. It lowers the ceiling for privacy and protections, rather than raising the floor." [email protected] www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...

Statement: Fight for the Future opposes federal preemption of state privacy & digital safety laws

The following statement can be attributed to Matt Lane (he/him), Senior Policy Counsel at Fight for the Future: Bills like KOSA have unnecessarily divided advocates for Big Tech accountability. While ...

www.fightforthefuture.org

December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM

AudioPaws🧡🖤🎃

@audiopaws.bsky.social

To any people in the U.S.. CALL YOUR DAM REPS!!! WE ARE IN THE ENDGAME!!!

🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 5d

#savespeech #stopKOSA #DOYOURJOBPARENTS

So, between a horrid hearing yesterday and a potential push to sneak KOSA and other bills into a must-pass end-of-year defense bill, I've opted to make a new script against the House of Energy and Commerce.

Call them. Often. We cant let them win.

December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞

@onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social

#savespeech #stopKOSA #DOYOURJOBPARENTS

So, between a horrid hearing yesterday and a potential push to sneak KOSA and other bills into a must-pass end-of-year defense bill, I've opted to make a new script against the House of Energy and Commerce.

Call them. Often. We cant let them win.

December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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William Edward Hackman

@williamhackman2349.bsky.social

"Kids Online Safety Act?" More like "Kids Online Surveillance Act." We need to stop KOSA before it gets worse anyway.

October 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

October 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM

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technoarchangel.bsky.social

@technoarchangel.bsky.social

Age Verification isn't about the kids it's a North Korea styled censorship that needs to be stopped at all costs. That's all the kids online safety act is doing is turning the Internet into North Korea.

November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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SmellySnake

@smellysnake.bsky.social

ALL of these shown bills mandate identity verification on the internet. I've read them.
CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES. Tell them to vote NO on each.

If you can't get off your gooner ass for the good of every artist on the internet, or don't wanna see "scary political stuff", please unfollow me.

These bills are vague on how a platform "knows" a user is a child, leaving the default solution as age verification if not outright calling for its use.
Age verification itself is not the issue. The issue is the intrusive methods to verify someone's age that eliminate anonymity online.
They don't like us. They want to know who we are so they can declare us criminals.

HR 6291 (COPPA): bad, now worse
HR ____ (KOSA): age verification
HR ____ (RESET act): age verification
HR 2657 (Sammy's Law): age verification
HR 3149 (App Store Accountability Act): age verification
HR 1623 (SCREEN act): age verification
HR 6290 (Safe Social Media Act): stepping stone to age verification
HR 6253 (Algorithmic Choice and Transparency Act): age verification
HR 6259 (No Fentanyl on Social Media Act): in all likelihood, another stepping stone
HR 6289 (Promoting a Safe Internet for Minors Act): age verification
HR ____ (SAFE bots act): this one's fine
HR ____ (Kids Internet Safety Partnership Act): age verification and new government agency
HR 5360 (AWARE act): this one's fine
HR 6265 (GAMING act): age verification
HR ____ (Assessing Safety Tools for Parents and Minors Act): stepping stone to more intrusive age verification
HR 6273 (SPY Kids Act that's really what it says): age verification
HR 6257 (Safe Messaging for Kids Act): age verification
HR 6292 (Don't Sell Kids' Data Act): age verification from data broker to platform
HR ____ (Parents Over Platforms Act): age verification

Call your representatives. It makes more of a difference than you think.

November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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🔞 CHILDFREE 🔞, HAZBIN S2 SPOILERS, anti-AI, & StaticRadio 📺🦌

@spencerraerichey.bsky.social

reason.com/2025/12/01/l...

Not only are the Kids Online "Safety" Act (KOSA) & at least one of the SCREEN Acts both back on the table, but so are a staggering 17 more bills that would censor the Internet & apps in the supposed name of protecting children.

Demand your reps oppose all of them.

Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet

KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.

reason.com

December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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charlie (Cutie Patootie)

@fallencharlie12.bsky.social

GO TO THIS SITE IT SHOULD GIVE YOU THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO OPPOSE

KOSA "Kids" online "Safety" Act (it's not protecting anyone but the feds, and if passed will increase surveillance

www.stopkosa.com

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 free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

www.stopkosa.com

December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM

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Brendan Poepplein

@brentoonman.bsky.social

Keep fighting KOSA, folks! This fight isn't over til this bill and all the other dangerous censorship bills are dead and buried. Bug your reps no matter what and tell them to oppose and in full detail why. We can't let this crap pass and we can't ignore it.

www.stopkosa.com

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 free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

www.stopkosa.com

December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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Katie

@funnyvalk.bsky.social

Call and tell them NO this is the same government that hid the Epstein Files for years it’s to censor us not to protect kids CALL NOW AND PROTECT OUR FREEDOM #KOSA #Friday #Internet #USA #US #Freedom

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 7d

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet

KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.

reason.com

December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Coty

@coty93.bsky.social

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 free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA! www.stopkosa.com

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 free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

www.stopkosa.com

December 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation

@discord12395.bsky.social

The Senate Judiciary Committee regarding "online child safety" is on Tues Dec 9th. The members' names & committee's #. Call them, and tell them that bills like KOSA will not help kids. They will hurt our free speech and privacy. #stopageveriﬁcation #stoponlineidchecks

www.judiciary.senate.gov

Home | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

www.judiciary.senate.gov

December 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM

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Knockoffthotep

@knockoffthotep.bsky.social

A new week has come so you know what that means? More calls.

As a reminder when calling your House Rep you need to also tell them about:

KOSA
SCREEN Act
COPPA 2.0
RESET Act
Sammy Act
App Store Accountability Act
GAMING Act
Safe Messaging for Kids Act
Parents over Platforms Act

Cont.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Oct 10

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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Shuǐyuánsù Gurumaru | Slime Vtuber

@shui.zgsystem.online

Since companies throwing money at the government is the real way things get done in the US, I hope all those VPN companies realize that all this KOSA BS will end up with their services being banned. If they want to stay around, they'd better pay off officials to squash it.

December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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nycki | 🔞 | friend of eggbug

@nycki.bsky.social

I've been falling behind on my calls but its never too late to start. Today I called all four of my local representatives using congress.gov to quickly get their phone numbers, and I told them to vote NO on KOSA and the SCREEN act "because I support privacy for sex workers". #savespeech

congress.cog

December 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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Blargg

@blargg404.bsky.social

The Senate Judiciary Committee, in tandem with the House's E&C Committee, is also looking to run a shock and awe campaign during a "child safety" hearing tomorrow in order to push various fascist bills (KOSA, STOP CSAM, Age Verification, etc.).

Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Badph0met(18+)

@badph0met.bsky.social

Since this is taking off(awesome!~), here's some of the bills in question + scripts to call your reps about these bills. Thanks y'all!! Stay freaky <3

$Hello, My name is [Your name] and I am a constituent from[ address, city/town, zip code], and I am calling to urge [you congressman\Senator\Rep] to vote NO against the KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT or [Congressman: H.R. 7891] [Senators: S.1748] This bill would force internet users to submit to invasive ID checks, facial scanning, biometric data collection, and other forms of mass surveillance online in order to access any content or information deemed ‘harmful to minors’ in nature, as well as allow the gov. . The problem with this is: there is no consensus on what content, information, or forms of expression are considered inappropriate for minors. This bill would instead result in websites being blocked from access altogether unless they allow for this mass surveillance to be conducted on their users. Other bills similar to the KOSA act, such as the Online Safety Act recently enacted in the UK, have been met with overwhelming backlash as a result of its overbearing and invasive mandates- forcing users to submit to facial scans and biometric data collection to access certain content and resources online. Entire websites and resources, such as Wikipedia, as well as smaller, adult-oriented business websites such as breweries and sporting goods stores, have been blocked completely in the UK as a result of being unwilling to submit to these invasive censorship laws, or being unable to afford expensive 3rd party services or softwares to verify and collect data on their users. Again, I urge you to vote NO against KOSA or [Congressman: H.R. 7891] [Senators: S.1748] and protect free speech and privacy online. Thank you and have a nice day.$

Hello, My name is (name), and I am a constituent from (address, zip code, cell phone number, state) and I am calling to urge (congressman./senator/rep) to vote NO against HR 3297-AKA “The interstate obscenity definition act.”

This bill seeks to widen the legal definition of criminal obscenity to include any speech or expression that is considered ‘adult’ or ‘nsfw’ in nature-calling for the criminalization and punishment of any forms of speech or expression deemed to be ‘obscene’ under its wide and vague definitions. The problem with this is that there is no consensus for what is considered ‘adult’ or ‘dangerous’ forms of expression. Any content, artwork, expression, or information, considered ‘Obscene’ under the wide definitions of this bill could be criminalized at the federal level, violating first amendment speech and putting artists, educators, and content creators at grave risk of prosecution.

Reproductive health resources and LGBTQ+ communities would not only be at risk of censorship, but discussion or expression of such topics would be rendered punishable by imprisonment. Artists would find themselves at risk of being arrested and imprisoned simply for creating art that is considered ‘Obscene’ under the vague definitions of this bill.

Again, I urge [Rep/congressman/senator) to vote NO against HR 3297 ‘The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act’ and protect free speech and expression online and offline. Thank you and have a nice day goodbye

$o, My name is [Your name] and I am a constituent from[ address, city/town, zip code], and I am calling to demand [you congressman\Senator\Rep] to vote NO against the following censorship bills discussed in the recent House committee Energy and commerce committee meeting: -The KOSA Act(kid’s online safety act)(House version) -SCREEN ACT (H.R.1623) -STOP CSAM Act -App Store Accountability Act (H.R.3149) – Sammy’s law (H.R.2657) -COPPA 2.0 -GAMING ACT(HR 6265) -Parents over platforms act These bills all threaten to impose online ID tracking, mass surveillance, censorship of content online that the government disagrees with, blocking or removal of websites from the internet, and the criminalization of any content that is deemed pornographic in nature, respectively. These policies violate first amendment protections for speech, expression, and the arts, and threaten to chill speech online as well as offline. I demand you to vote NO against the listed bills and protect free speech online. Thank you for your time, service, and consideration, and have a nice day goodbye.$ $Hello, My name is [Your name] and I am a constituent from[ address, city/town, zip code], and I am calling to urge [you congressman\Senator\Rep] to vote NO against the SCREEN ACT or [For Senator: S.737] [For Congressman: H.R.1623] This bill would force internet users to submit to invasive ID checks, facial scanning, biometric data collection, and other forms of mass surveillance online in order to access any content or information deemed ‘harmful to minors’ in nature, in the name of protecting minors from pornographic content online. The problem with this is: there is no consensus on what content, information, or forms of expression are considered inappropriate for minors. This bill would instead result in websites being blocked from access altogether unless they allow for this mass surveillance to be conducted on their users. Other bills similar to the SCREEN act, such as the Online Safety Act recently enacted in the UK, have been met with overwhelming backlash as a result of its overbearing and invasive mandates- forcing users to submit to facial scans and biometric data collection to access certain content and resources online. Entire websites and resources, such as Wikipedia, as well as smaller, adult-oriented business websites such as breweries and sporting goods stores, have been blocked completely in the UK as a result of being unwilling to submit to these invasive censorship laws, or being unable to afford expensive 3rd party services or softwares to verify and collect data on their users. Again, I urge you to vote NO against the SCREEN ACT or [For Senator: S.737] [For Congressman: H.R.1623] protect freedom of speech, expression, and commerce online. Thank you.$

December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM

AudioPaws🧡🖤🎃

@audiopaws.bsky.social

Gimme a dandy's world character to try drawing..

December 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM

AudioPaws🧡🖤🎃

@audiopaws.bsky.social

gonna be pinning a thread to resources you can check out to help fight age verification and ID laws. every second matters at this point!

(I will update this thread whenever I find more resources...)

December 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM

AudioPaws🧡🖤🎃

@audiopaws.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA9r... We called it, meta just admitted that they want our data..

Age Verification is Being FUNDED...

YouTube video by Deep Humor

www.youtube.com

December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM

AudioPaws🧡🖤🎃

@audiopaws.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/policy/83087... ORRR instead of forcing people to give personal information or punishing other people for parents bad choices, we do something called "get the parents to parent their own kids"? #Censorship #NoToAgeVerification