we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article
it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.
everyone go enable this immediately. you have to do this individually for each separate side-blog. i cannot believe staff didn’t inform us about this before implementing it
28k signatures and IT NEEDS 35k.
GET TO SIGNING!!! THIS IS LITERALLY PRIVACY AT STAKE!!!!
Edited out what was right here cause I was misinformed! But here's a YouTube vid. below. ⤵️
The Kids Online "Safety" Act Will Be A Privacy Nightmare - YouTube
I love this because like 99% of this kind of paleoart is patriarchal Man
the Hunter type fantasies but these guys are just like “fuck it we’re
outta here”
we have not changed.
Just because the section of KOSA involving the state attorneys deciding what should be censored has been removed does not mean that it is good now. The threat of censorship is still present. It's now in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, and who knows what they could do?
Please do not fall for the new language of the bill. KOSA is still extremely dangerous.
Continue to make noise and spread awareness about KOSA.
hrefnatheravenqueen asked:
Everybody’s talking about KOSA but no one is talking about the nonsense bill S-210 that even the NDP is supporting, and will have far-reaching implications for privacy for all Canadians. Imagine having to scan your face every time you want to access websites that MAY contain adult material? And what will the government consider adult material? So many websites, including this one, may decide to just outright ban access to Canadians. Btw, the unelected senator who proposed the bill is herself a fan of KOSA.
allthecanadianpolitics answered:
Here’s some more info:
Considering how often right-wing figures - including politicians - have wrongfully labeled anything and everything LGBTQ-related as sexual, and how many been actively targeting LGBTQ+ folks with harassment, demonization, and harmful legislation, I can see this laying the foundation for very bad things down the road, especially for this demographic.
Right?
Like, once this is allowed to become law, it means any upcoming government can start messing around with definitions so as to clamp down on any content they don’t like by labelling it as “adult” material. I wouldn’t even trust the Liberals or the NDP to decide on what I’m allowed to see, read, listen to, online. I would trust Conservatives even less!
Why the NDP is supporting a bill that will absolutely be abused down the road is beyond me.
And not just that, but the implementation of this would require extensive databases of biometrics on all Canadian citizens and residents that will have to somehow interface with random websites so that we can access them? Hello? Those databases will be fucking breached on day zero. It will be a goldmine. I don’t want this fucking piece of shit bill to become law, it can be abused in too many ways.
In addition to all the data, privacy, and Charter rights concerns, facial recognition has proven to be biased against anyone other than white people. Shocker. To implement that kind of tech as "age verification" would inevitably discriminate against black kids especially, who are already frequently assumed to be older than they are. The bill only aims to ""protect"" white kids.
Here's the full text of the bill, and another article:
"We certainly hope that any legislation that aims to keep explicit online content away from children trickles down into other web services even if they are not solely focused on pornography."
So the intention IS blatantly to influence the entire internet.
hrefnatheravenqueen asked:
Everybody’s talking about KOSA but no one is talking about the nonsense bill S-210 that even the NDP is supporting, and will have far-reaching implications for privacy for all Canadians. Imagine having to scan your face every time you want to access websites that MAY contain adult material? And what will the government consider adult material? So many websites, including this one, may decide to just outright ban access to Canadians. Btw, the unelected senator who proposed the bill is herself a fan of KOSA.
allthecanadianpolitics answered:
Here’s some more info:
Considering how often right-wing figures - including politicians - have wrongfully labeled anything and everything LGBTQ-related as sexual, and how many been actively targeting LGBTQ+ folks with harassment, demonization, and harmful legislation, I can see this laying the foundation for very bad things down the road, especially for this demographic.
If you're worried you can get involved. You can write and submit a brief, "a written submission that provides opinions, comments and recommendations on a subject being studied by a parliamentary committee".
You can read briefs people have already submitted to the committee evaluating the law here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/committees/en/SECU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=12521982
And there's information explaining how you can submit your own brief here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Procedure/Guides/brief-e.html
You can read the proposed bill here: https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/bill/S-210/third-reading
Sexually explicit material is defined here (and copy and pasted below): https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-27.html#docCont
(5) In subsection (1), sexually explicit material means material that is not child pornography, as defined in subsection 163.1(1), and that is
(a) a photographic, film, video or other visual representation, whether or not it was made by electronic or mechanical means,
(i) that shows a person who is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity, or
(ii) the dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a person’s genital organs or anal region or, if the person is female, her breasts;
(b) written material whose dominant characteristic is the description, for a sexual purpose, of explicit sexual activity with a person; or
(c) an audio recording whose dominant characteristic is the description, presentation or representation, for a sexual purpose, of explicit sexual activity with a person.
2012, c. 1, s. 21; 2014, c. 25, s. 8; 2015, c. 23, s. 10
