"๐จ๐ธ๐พ ๐๐ธ๐ท๐ฝ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฝ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฎ
๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ต๐ต ๐๐ธ๐พ?~"
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It's 90 degrees in the Arctic: The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet:
Every government and individual person on the planet that continues to tell you there is no climate collapse and everything is alarmist, is an outright blatant liar:
Itโs 90 degrees in the Arctic. The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet.
scientificamerican.com/articโฆ
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Once again, KOSA is the US's version of the UK's OSA, WHICH IS WELL KNOWN TO CENSOR UK CITIZENS.
Kudos to @MarshaBlackburn and @SenBlumenthal for their leadership and to the @SenateCommerce committee for their unanimous vote in support of KOSA!
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Good thing KOSA is trending.
Keep it up. Do NOT let ANY of it pass!
Keep being loud, keep informing others, and keep speaking! KNOW your rights as a US citizen! Reminder we have midterms this year!
P.S. Parent responsibly.
#NOtoKOSA
๐จ KOSA advanced today - but it is not law yet.
The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE.
The good news: the SCREEN Act failed to advance today. It's delayed however, not dead.
Next comes a full Senate vote, followed by a House-Senate fight. Contact your senators NOW: vote NO on S.1748, remove the "duty of care", and reject mass surveillance disguised as child protection.
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We need more bills that force parents to actually parent and not just throw a tablet into the hands of a 6yo
Shit like that should just be considered down right child abuse
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Keep it trending. Let every politician know that their vote will be their resignation. These bills are overwhelmingly unpopular.
The lobbying organizations that have cooked them up HATE that they are being discussed publicly because they have no defense for them other than "protect the children" on repeat.
Good thing KOSA is trending.
Keep it up. Do NOT let ANY of it pass!
Keep being loud, keep informing others, and keep speaking! KNOW your rights as a US citizen! Reminder we have midterms this year!
P.S. Parent responsibly.
#NOtoKOSA
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Waking up in Japan, I found both good news and bad news. This is a situation that demands continued close attention. Truly, the fight to defend freedom knows no end.
๐จ KOSA advanced today - but it is not law yet.
The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE.
The good news: the SCREEN Act failed to advance today. It's delayed however, not dead.
Next comes a full Senate vote, followed by a House-Senate fight. Contact your senators NOW: vote NO on S.1748, remove the "duty of care", and reject mass surveillance disguised as child protection.
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We in Japan are watching the fate of these bills with concern. If the U.S. goes down that path, Japan will likely follow suit. I hope the members of the Senate make the right decision.
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if discord forces another ID check, im leaving the platform. If you make it kernel level, im just gonna rip it out by learning coding, if you try to arrest me for protecting myself, i will protect myself FURTHER. dont test me.
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I'm dead serious in saying if America passes those ID checking censorship bills, it's so over for the internet as a whole. This WILL affect people worldwide.
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Call your senators!!!!
UPDATE - August 2026
๐บ๐ธUSA Age Verification - VPN Bans
STATE BY STATE STATUS
๐ด VPN directly targeted:
Utah - SB 73. VPN bypass of age verification targeted. Court challenge. September 2026.
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Age verification enforced:
Louisiana - adult content. Since 2022. First state law.
Arkansas - social media and content restrictions.
Mississippi - social media age verification.
Tennessee - social media age verification.
Florida - age verification enforced. Court challenges ongoing.
Texas - App Store Accountability Act. Supreme Court upheld July 2026.
๐ Passed. Not yet in force:
New York - SAFE for Kids Act. Algorithmic feeds and midnight notifications. January 25 2027.
North Carolina - voted 106-6. Already ruled unconstitutional. Status unclear.
๐ฃ๏ธ Active bills or watching:
California - device-level age assurance proposals. Watching.
Virginia - minor protections. No VPN restrictions.
Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming - bills active or in discussion.
๐บ๐ธFEDERAL STATUS
KIDS Act - passed House 267-117. Senate next.
SCREEN Act - Senate Commerce Committee markup this week.
Parents Decide Act - OS-level age verification proposed. No VPN ban.
No federal VPN ban proposed.
WHAT EACH STATUS MEANS
VPN targeted - Utah only:
Not a ban on VPNs. A law specifically targeting the use of VPNs to bypass state age verification requirements. If courts allow enforcement from September 2026 Utah becomes the first US jurisdiction to restrict VPN use for private citizens. Every other state with age verification is watching this case.
Age verification enforced:
Platforms must verify user ages to comply with state law. Methods vary by state - government ID, credit card, biometric. Most affected platforms either implemented verification or blocked state residents entirely. VPN usage spiked in every state after enforcement began.
Passed. Not yet in force:
Law signed. Rules published. Compliance deadline not yet reached. Platforms are preparing. New York's January 2027 deadline is the next major enforcement date nationally.
Active bills or watching:
Legislation introduced or under discussion. Not yet passed. Could move quickly given the pace of age verification legislation nationally in 2026. Worth monitoring monthly.
Federal:
KIDS Act and SCREEN Act together would create a national age verification framework covering social media, adult content, AI chatbots and messaging apps. If both pass the Senate and are signed into law every state-level debate becomes largely academic. The federal framework supersedes.
BTW: The internet does not care what country or state you are in. It is also kind of hard to ban a decentralized VPN.๐
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Call your senators to tell them to not to pass aby of these act asap
๐จSenate Commerce marks up KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and other โkids safetyโ bills this Wednesday at 10 AM ET.
โ ๏ธThese bills are sold as child protection.
โ ๏ธMost create new data-collection points and shift power away from parents.
๐ It's also possible that the App Store Accountability Act could get included in the KOSA version that passes out of markup.
โก๏ธParents should decide what their kids can access, not government mandates.
You are the firewall.
Stay informed โ protectingkids.online/
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Stop blackpilling. There are ways around this, and it's unimaginably unenforceable.
They are trying to get y'all to self-censor preemptively. All these clowns have is fear, and if you reject that fear, their power dissolves.
The entire internet is soon to require Digital ID and biometric scanning just to access it. We have judges and Attorney Generals forcing digital ID in states before the SCREEN act is even voted on in 2 days. Both sides want this and that's concerning youtu.be/DuQgPUVUEgM
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KOSA & SCREEN are both threats to our privacy & free speech on the internet! It starts with verify yourself online with selfie/ID, then crack down on speech & mass censorship online & the government can use your info against you! CALL YOUR SENATORS TO SAY NO! BEFORE WEDNESDAY! โญ
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Itโs bad enough that states have it, with them now trying to implement through the OS level, please beware and literally do anything, even if it means making constant calls, sign a petition, anything, please, I politely ask you to lend your support to fight and pushback.
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No age verification at the operating system level. ๐ฅ๏ธ
No age verification at the app store level. ๐ฑ
No age verification for apps. ๐ซ
No age verification for websites. ๐
No age verification anywhere online. Period. โ
Not now. Not ever. ๐ฅ
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Every single day. Every fking day. Today I feel like I am definitely at the end of my last nerve.
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I'm so glad we've learned our lessons from Covid ๐๐คก
Our government is one big uniparty.
While complaining about Fauci all week, every republican just voted to advance Erica Schwartz's nomination for CDC director. She is at least as bad as Fauci and was responsible for disciplining soldiers who did not get the clot shot. #uniparty
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Can we declare these people evil yet?
Please?
THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!๐คฏ
A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:
"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."
Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."
They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.
It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."
Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.
That's when they found the loophole.
Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.
One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.
Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.
If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.
They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.
And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.
The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.
They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.
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Fck the tea partyโฆ we need a national deflocking party
โThe idea of keeping a location dossier on every single person just in case one of us turns out to be a criminal is just about the most un-American approach to privacy I can imagine.โ
cnet.com/home/security/copy-โฆ









































