Blake C. Stacey

Pre-empting state laws seems like a ... good thing here? Like, one simply should not trust what states decide is "stronger" protection.

The current Senate version weakens the original COPPA pre-emption

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

while the current House version doesn't

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

so maybe that has something to do with it.

I knew that the House R's had deliberately written a KOSA that differed from the Senate version, but I have no idea of why the House version of COPPA 2.0 wasn't just a Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V job.

Also, on the federal level, I have no clue wtf is happening with COPPA 2.0. Unanimous consent in the Senate, and so... Back to the drawing board in the House?

I think most of what I use the web for could survive the Florida law but not the Georgia one.

(perpetual sigh)

Is the actual text of any of the other bills in Gov. Hochul's "legislative package" actually available? I'd like to know as soon as possible if I'm going to have to geoblock my tiny Lemmy instance from New York.

Yeah, 15 minutes per side per case... sure sounds like the briefings (and whatever biases the judges bring with them) will be more important.

The arguments over the Georgia *and* Florida laws are lined up for next Tuesday, I just learned today.

I see someone in the comments has retrocausally stolen my very clever "somehow heroin chic returned" joke

I don't think my blood pressure could handle watching the stream live. Hopefully someone else does.

I just checked: it looks like it'll be this coming Tuesday. 2 of the 3 judges on the panel (Newsom and Tjloflat) wrote the 11th Circuit opinion in Moody v. Netchoice (media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...), so maybe they're not completely hopeless?

www.ca11.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...

The most Maddow-brained, Resist-lib-brunching takes about Trump and Russia have all turned out to be true, with the *possible* exception of a VHS cassette literally labeled "the pee tape", and hey, the night is young

Big Q: what about the House version (www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...) does the Senate really not like, and what will the House be willing to change?

Which is good, though it doesn't stop worries that companies will be indirectly pressured into AV to avoid liability.

Apparently, the sponsor of the House version of COPPA 2.0 has pulled it and staffers will be revising it as a result of this (xcancel.com/BenBrodyDC/s...). Dunno really what that means.

The quality of the season we got was remarkably uneven. I said it at the time, and I'll stick with that now.

No.

They literally are taking the sky

“Right, I think it's time to take a step back for a minute. The KIDS Act is not the worst-case scenario. We hate it for obvious reasons, but given the absolute flood of state age verification laws of late, a federal AV law for adult websites would change very, very little in this country. The regulations on design features for online platforms don't carry any mandates like what ChatControl used to have, and the text of them specifically preempts any interpretation that forces age verification on social media. Most of what it requires, other than the poisonous idea of age verification, is already done by the great majority of the websites we use. A mandate for "establishing reasonable policies addressing harms to minors" is nothing like a duty of care, especially when the harms listed are HIGHLY illegal things which these websites already moderate. The fact that it mandates functioning user report systems is something I could fully get behind in a bill that was less overly broad. And no, it has not passed the House. It's not even guaranteed a floor vote. It was reported out of committee. The amount of time between this stage and a floor vote, if one ever comes, is usually very substantial, meaning we have plenty of time to work. Even worse for it than that, it only made it out of committee along party lines, meaning that it's going to face an almost impossible path in the Senate from the moment it gets there, if it ever even does, and I do mean "if". Thune's reluctance, Cruz's spite, Blumenthal and Blackburn's insistence on something worse, the progressive wing's hostility toward age verification, and Wyden's stubborn use of procedural hurdles almost guarantee a death by a thousand cuts. Do. Not. Panic. Do not get demoralized, do not let yourselves be defeated in advance, do not fall for doomer misinformation on other subs and YouTube, and do not fucking give up.”

#savespeech #kosa
On the results of the markup today, I’m just straight up going to post this comment from r/politicaloptimism on it

The frankenbill that includes the House's version of #KOSA passed the committee, but it's not all bad news.

Oog. I can't handle this hearing. I'm going to go put on a Hound of the Baskervilles audio book and take a stress nap until it's over, then read about the damage.

The very existence of commercially available glasses with Internet-connected cameras sold by Meta, a company built entirely on hiding the costs of services in negative privacy externalities, is an indictment of U.S. tech law and policy. This is an unfixable product from a fundamentally bad company.

Congress is having hearings on how we’ll all need to [checks notes] upload our government IDs to web sites to [pushes glasses higher] protect kids?

(a) This is about online censorship and surveillance.

(b) No republican is credible about child safety.

(c) It’s an InfoSec/privacy nightmare.

I’m [NAME] of [CITY], one of your constituents, and I'm very concerned that SB 6002, the Driver Privacy Act is much too weak to protect immigrants, rapid response groups, and other vulnerable Washington residents. There are thousands of Flock surveillance cameras are all over the state -- and cities like Redmond, Everett, and Olympia which have turned their Flock cameras off are likely to turn them back on once SB 6002 passes.  So the guardrails in this bill need to be strengthened significantly. Reduce retention time to three minutes or less unless license plates are already on a hotlist. This significantly reduces risk of data getting to ICE and CBP -- or being used by police officers to stalk people. Ensure that human rights organizations, local organizers, and journalists can provide oversight by eliminating the public records act exemption. This is very important legislation and its guardrails need to be strong enough to protect us.

#waleg update: tomorrow is the last day for the House to vote on SB 6002 , the Driver Privacy Act, regulating Flock and other ALPRs.

So *now* is the time to contact your state reps. They're getting so much email that phone calls are a lot more effective at this point. Here's a script. 1/N

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online.

Video incoming. This is big

"There's been a lot of discussion about a subamendment from Houchin on her under-16 social media ban. Auchincloss says he wants to work on it with her"

xcancel.com/BenBrodyDC/s...

Maybe we shouldn't pursue wildly unconstitutional options in the name of Doing Something?

xcancel.com/BenBrodyDC/s...

Sounds like I was right about Auchincloss being terrible:

"There's been a lot of discussion about a subamendment from Houchin on her under-16 social media ban. Auchincloss says he wants to work on it with her, and Guthrie pledges work on it too. Houchin says she'll withdraw the idea now though"

House hearing on fake "kids safety" censorship bills happening right now. Call your lawmakers!!!!

badinternetbills.com

sadly,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S....

(this is not an original doggerel of mine; I think I saw it in a Unix fortune file ~25 years ago)