Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin
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Writer. Editor. Recovering doomscroller. Incurable optimist with hopefully-curable burnout. She/her.
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![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.
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Actual Voters have takes so much wilder than anyone online could imagine
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Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
In rural Waukesha county I drove past a "Dictatorship vs Democracy" sign and a Ukrainian flag.
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Antifa Procurement is currently overwhelmed but is trying their very best to issue 1099-NECs by next April in the event the IRS is functional. HR continues to maintain it's not their problem.
It’s going to take ages to pay all these people
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When I was first starting out, I would do a lot of things that would be kind of preemptive cuts to my own ego. I named myself 'scribbled smut' to show that I was just scribbling, not stuff to be taken seriously. I'd call my work 'badly written' or 'embarrassing' before anyone else could.