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Let's see what tactic one "won't anyone please think of the children?" person is using in support of .

None at all. He's shouting "Big Tech!" at the top of his lungs and hoping that is sufficient. This is a tactic which has... been invoked a number of times over the past few years to push for all kinds of human rights incursions.

Facebook has gotten too big. Too powerful. The executives are (or were) also a bit shifty. So, we got to do something about them. Something. Anything.

Then, the something ignores any human rights, such as privacy, free expression, or anything else. It also leaves the way Facebook does business completely intact (or close enough so).

Instead of the bad guy being Zuckerberg even, now the bad guy can be someone in the government. There is still a boot on your throat. The centralized power remains. Is everything all tidy and solved?

With KOSA, it has it's own particular brand of awfulness.

It has a number of vague terms which gives figures who have historically been known to over-reach and panic over all kinds of things, a license to panic over more things, then to find a legal text to try to intimidate platforms over that.

Moral panics are not uncommon. In fact, they cannot be any less common. We've seen plenty (in fact, if you look back thousands of years, you can find figures worried about things which would now look silly). There will likely be more to come.

You have to consider whether you really want to live in a sterile Disneyland. Someone could make any number of arguments about this or that potentially being bad. And even if something might be bad to a few people, it's questionable whether that would be proportionate.

This is all assuming that officials are not acting with ill intent. If they're acting with malicious or ideological intent (as a number of people have considered with this bill), it can only get worse.

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