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The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online.::Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to information in the name of protecting children online. KOSA was introduced in 2022 but failed to gain traction, and today its authors, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and...

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[-] EricHill78@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

What ever happened to parental responsibility?

[-] Zeron@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Nothing. Policy makers are just using their "think of the children" defense to constantly push more and more overreaching policy.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago

We gave up on parental responsibility when deregulation, deunionization and Reaganomics forced all adults into the workforce.

Now that we've driven families to dysfunction, even CWS is underbudgeted with an impacted caseload. So they'll let child abuse slide so long as the kid's not infested with lice and scabies.

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

This is so tragic but actually makes sense. happens all around the world as well.

[-] Aagje_D_Vogel@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

That's in the hands of the schools now. /s

this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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