Taylor Lorenz on KOSA, The SCREEN Act, and Repealing Section 230
Last week in the United States of America, Congress began fast-tracking nearly 20 bills in a massive effort to enact massive censorship on the internet, decimate your ability to use computers privately, and severely restrict free speech online.
If you think your representatives are fighting for your rights here, you're probably wrong. KOSA, the App Store Accountability Act, the SCREEN Act, and the efforts to repeal Section 230 are bipartisan efforts to undermine our civil liberties on a massive scale.
Fight for the Future has published resources through their Bad Internet Bills campaign to give you the information you need to contact your representatives and demand they not support these bills. Don't let politicians, social media, and the mainstream media fool you: Your voice can make a difference, and has already stopped KOSA and similar bills from being passed for many years now.
They are counting on you giving up, don't give in!
In this video, Privacy Guides sits down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher this slate of bills being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:19 Bad Internet Bills
02:46 Introduction: Taylor Lorenz
03:52 Repealing Section 230
04:57 What is Section 230?
09:37 How Does Section 230 Protect Small Websites?
11:04 How Does Section 230 Relate to Privacy?
12:48 What is the SCREEN Act?
17:13 How Would Identity Verification Work?
20:15 Identity Verification is Already Happening
22:02 What is KOSA?
23:02 KOSA is Bad For Everyone
27:03 How Would KOSA Hurt Small Websites?
29:26 KOSA Would Censor Everyone
32:56 Final Thoughts & BadInternetBills
34:48 Thanks to Taylor
34:58 Support Us!
Credits: Guest: Taylor Lorenz; Hosts: Nate Bartram, Jonah Aragon; Writers: Nate Bartram, Jonah Aragon; Editors: Nate Bartram, Jordan Warne; Producers: Nate Bartram, Jonah Aragon, Jordan Warne; Executive Producer: Jonah Aragon