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BREAKING: Patriot Voices sends letter to Congress expressing concerns with KOSA
What Conservatives Need To Know About KOSA
And the better way for parents to protect their children online.
- KOSA would pressure online platforms to monitor and filter lawful speech in the name of “protecting children,” which risks sweeping in family, religious, and values-based content that powerful institutions or activist groups dislike.
- The bill shifts authority away from parents and toward federal regulators, state attorneys general, and tech companies, allowing outside actors to decide what content is “safe” for minors instead of families making those decisions themselves.
- KOSA’s vague “duty of care” standard creates strong incentives for platforms to over-censor in order to avoid lawsuits and investigations, which often means silencing controversial but legitimate viewpoints.
- Parents already have tools to supervise children online, including device settings, content filters, app restrictions, and family monitoring systems. KOSA expands government involvement instead of strengthening parental authority and digital literacy.
- Large technology companies would be best positioned to comply with KOSA’s legal and moderation requirements, which could crush smaller, family-oriented, faith-based, or startup platforms that cannot absorb the compliance costs.
- Age-verification and identity-check systems tied to KOSA could undermine online privacy for both children and adults by encouraging broader data collection and digital tracking.
- The legislation creates a framework that future administrations could use to pressure platforms to suppress politically unpopular speech under the label of “harmful” content.
- KOSA risks reducing access to educational, religious, mental health, and community resources for teenagers if platforms respond by broadly restricting youth access to sensitive or controversial discussions.
- Pro-family organizations should be wary of empowering unelected bureaucracies and major tech firms to define acceptable cultural and moral standards for children nationwide.
- The better alternative is a genuinely parent-centered approach: stronger transparency tools, opt-in family controls, digital education, and enforcement against actual criminal exploitation online, without expanding censorship powers or weakening constitutional protections.
Tell Congress to vote NO on KOSA.
A vote for KOSA is a vote AGAINST parents.
Congress is currently advancing a bill called the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA, for short), which would: require social media and other online platforms to gather private data about adults and children; institutionalize federal censorship standards related to medical information, making it more difficult to gain accurate information about vaccines, masking, and even the harms of sex-change operations for children; establish more control for bureaucrats to set “approved” narratives; and, most importantly, transfer parenting authority to government bureaucrats!
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