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The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A new bill sponsored by Sen. Schatz (D-HI), Sen. Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Britt (R-AL) would combine some of the worst elements of various social media bills aimed at “protecting the children” into a single law.

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[–] MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EFF is notoriously kind of an extremist organization when it comes to privacy and any sort of tracking of people; not in a bad way though I think.

[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call it extremist...it's usually reasonable policy protecting people's privacy. It's only extreme because it would severely cut into big tech's profits and the USs surveillance capacity.

[–] MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably more apt to call them absolutists than extremists.

[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Within the privacy community, EFF's viewed as pragmatists -- far from absolutists or extremists. So I agree with @chakan2@chakan2@lemmy.world, it only gets regarded as extreme because big tech and the surveillance-industrial complex have normalized not expecting privacy.