Microsoft president endorses online child safety bill night before Big Tech hearing
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Microsoft announced that it is endorsing bipartisan legislation intended to hold Big Tech companies accountable for ensuring that teenagers and children are safe online. Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad

cross-posted from: https://infosec.exchange/users/thenexusofprivacy/statuses/111847834655628571

Microsoft endorses anti-LGBTQ online “child safety” bill KOSA night before Big Tech hearing (US Politics)

Worth noting: Microsoft owns LinkedIn, which wouldn’t be particularly affected by KOSA.

There’s a hearing on Wednesday, and potentially a Senate vote soon, so if you’re in the US now’s a good time to contact your Senators. https://stopkosa.com and EFF’s page make it easy!

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  • Aatube@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t the law only make clear they’ll win if it fits the law’s definition of harm?

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The law’s defintion of harm is extremely broad. Charlie Jane Anders has a good discussion of this in The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse:

      “This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don’t even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people.”

      • Aatube@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Hmm, I was under the impression that Attorneys General could already sue whomever they want, success rates aside. Is that not the case?

        • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Technically yes but judges get annoyed if there’s absolutely no case, so they rarely do – and if they threaten when there’s no case, larger companies will look at it and say the threat’s not real.