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Kids’ Safety or Digital Censorship of Conservative Views? – HotAir

The FAA reauthorization bill is making its way through Congress at the moment, which probably sounds about as exciting as snail racing. But this is the last major piece of legislation expected to be completed during this session, so the usual suspects are rushing to try to add all sorts of completely unrelated amendments to it in order to force a vote on some of their pet projects. One of these that’s drawing considerable attention is a proposal known as The Kids Online Safety Act or KOSA. What’s not to like, right? Who doesn’t want to keep kids safe? KOSA has drawn some bipartisan support, but it has its detractors as well, including Rick Santorum. The way the bill is phrased, it could readily be interpreted as turning over control (read as censorship) to Big Tech, letting them fill in for the Democrats’ abandoned Ministry of Truth and decide which content is “safe” and which…

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