1. United States
2. Letter

As an American citizen, I urge you to reject and publicly oppose the Kids Online Safety Act (H.R. 7891). This bill will censor the internet for both adults and children while likely leading to online services collecting even more personal data. The bill pushes online services to implement age verification syste right to access the internet anonymously. ms, which would undermine all users’ privacy, and invade everyone’s It will lead to identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me getting more of people’s private data. minors can see online. In effect, the KOSA will make a small group of federal officials, and indirectly, the U.S. president and attorneys general, the arbiters of what material Online services will remove and block access to material in all states. e state’s top law enforcement official deems dangerous. KOSA could result in loss of access to truthful information that on This isn’t safety—it’s censorship. The consequences of such censorship, besides being a constitutional violation, will be the further alienation in addition to a forced ignorance of future LGBTQIA+ youth, which, in very real terms, means skyrocketing rates of suicide in those children, if not adults as well. Please protect all internet users’ privacy and our ability to acces s information online, and publicly oppose KOSA.