Censorship Does Not Keep Kids Safe

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The Kids Online Safety Act is an alarming bill that would give the government the power to decide what content is dangerous to young people, ultimately enabling censorship of content it doesn’t like. This violates the First Amendment.

Lawmakers claim KOSA will protect kids online. In reality, it would threaten young people's privacy, limit minors' access to vital resources (like mental health materials or gender identity support), and silence important online conversations for all ages.

The First Amendment guarantees everyone, including children, the right to access information free from censorship – yet, like many book bans and other forms of classroom censorship, KOSA flies in the face of this.

Now it's up to Congress to protect free speech online. Send a message now and encourage them not to co-sponsor and to vote NO on the Kids Online Safety Act.

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I'm writing as your constituent today urging you not to co-sponsor, and to vote no on a dangerous bill known as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would stifle free speech across the internet, leave marginalized children vulnerable to censorship and surveillance, and harm the very communities it claims to protect.

While the bill's purported goal of addressing child safety online is laudable, ultimately KOSA would threaten young people's ability to use the internet to communicate, speak, and organize around the issues most important to them. Please, do not co-sponsor this bill and vote NO on it immediately.

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