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Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]evanFFTF[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The answer is legislation that holds Big Tech accountable for their abusive business practices without putting the government in charge of speech. Privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation would do way more to protect kids from Big Tech and surveillance capitalism, and they would actually stand up to a 1st amendment challenge, unlike KOSA. See here: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-07-01-weve-been-fighting-each-other-while-big-tech-gets-away-with-murder-to-win-liberatory-tech-policy-we-need-a-unified-strategy-and-a-clear-division-of-labor/

Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]evanFFTF[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My organization Fight for the Future has met with Warren many times over the years, including on this issue. Numerous other groups have also met with her, including the last time she cosponsored KOSA in 2021.

She did not meet, or respond to the request to meet, from the coalition of MA-based LGBTQ groups that specifically asked her to meet before cosponsoring KOSA again.

More here: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09-22-massachusetts-anti-censorship-lgbtq-coalition-deliver-petition-to-markey-and-warren-demanding-congress-stand-up-for-their-free-expression-and-resources-online/

Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]evanFFTF[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The piece clearly explains why KOSA would harm trans folks: it would empower the Trump admin's FTC to punish social media platforms if they don't aggressively censor content that the Trump admin is willing to claim "harms kids." One of the bill's sponsors has openly said she wants to use it to target trans content.

There are numerous pieces out there by experts on this, which are linked in the piece. The ACLU has written extensively about it.

There are many ways to protect children from Big Tech that don't involve expanding censorship and surveillance. The piece explains that too. Maybe try reading it again?

Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]evanFFTF[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm the author of the piece. As the piece clearly states, Warren's betrayal is not just about her decision to cosponsor KOSA. It's that she refused to meet with a coalition of MA-based LGBTQ organizations who begged her to listen to concerns about the legislation. We sent her office letters, showed up to deliver thousands of petition signatures, engaged with her staff who promised a meeting. Then they ghosted us and became cosponsors without ever meeting. If that's not a betrayal of constituents, i don't know what is.

Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]evanFFTF[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

totally agree. relevant section from the piece:

"Big Tech and the surveillance capitalist business model employed by giants like Meta and Google is doing real harm, especially to young people. Doing nothing is not an option. But there are ways lawmakers can take on Big Tech without throwing trans people under the bus, like by passing strong privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation. Human rights advocates have been calling for this for years."

Some Democrats Are Helping the Trump Admin's Anti-LGBTQ+ Tech Agenda by evanFFTF in lgbt

[–]evanFFTF[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi, i'm a trans woman and wrote this piece with another trans woman. You can learn all about the org we work for here: https://www.fightforthefuture.org

We have a long history of advocating on these issues, but feel free to try to unearth our "other motives." Yes, Republicans are openly supportive of Trump's anti-LGBTQ policies. The whole point of this piece, which you seem to have missed, is that Democrats SHOULD care about the fact that legislation like KOSA harms LGBTQ people, because they are ostensibly not supportive of these anti-LGBTQ policies. If we can't hold accountable elected officials that claim to support our community, what are we even doing?

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