OU has a long standing history of chasing off LGBT professors. Bruce Goff is a heartbreaking example

The student's mother is a christian podcaster who's affiliated with TPUSA and is currently all over X crowing about the suspension and calling for all trans educators to be fired. This was 110% a set up from the get go.

Yeah this was clearly the completely intended outcome

bsky.app/profile/timh...

cis people don't want it to be about banning trans people because what if all that other stuff they ignored was about banning trans people too and that can't be because they're objectively the best and most moral and never make mistakes really trans people just make everything about trans stuff and-

"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl

While not under consideration for this package, here are other recent bills that are potentially problematic:
-GUARD Act (S.3062): AV for chat-bots, bans minors from using chat-bots
(cont.)

ID'd the most problematic bills:
-RESET Act (doesn't mandate AV though)
-SCREEN Act (Broadest AV law)
-App Store Accountability Act (AV for App Stores)
-Sammy's Law (Surveillance on minors)
-Parents Over Platforms Act (AV for Apps)
-KOSA (especially if "Duty of Care" is maintained)

there's also the SCREEN Act!

call your representatives and demand they oppose KOSA, Sammy's law and the App Store Accountability Act. I'm going to try my best to loom through the other bills to see what else needs to be targeted by us, but for now focus on those three!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

So is there going to be an actual committee vote here or is it just a hearing

As always: the best way to protect kids online is to pass strong legislation that protects EVERYONE from Big Tech's surveillance capitalist business model & breaks their monopolies so that people can have social media and tech tools that serve community needs. Nothing in this package looks like that

In seriousness, though, we're analyzing the new text but this package looks like a mess. The new KOSA text is confusing... the removal of the unworkable Duty of Care is positive, but other changes are just ... weird? Other bills in the package would mandate age verification and look disastrous.