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Lawmakers Say KOSA Doesn’t Mandate Online Age Verification. It Effectively Does.

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) uses online safety as a pretext for increased control, paving the way for digital ID and threatening privacy.

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As Congress careens toward its annual holiday sabbatical, the air is thick with last-minute legislative wheeling and dealing. And yesterday we reported how Linda Yaccarino, CEO of Elon Musk’s X, has entered into the fray. Yaccarino’s recent collaboration with the architects of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is ostensibly aimed at winning over Republican lawmakers who have turned this bill’s passage into the legislative equivalent of herding cats.

We obtained a copy of the new version of the bill for you here.

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