About this episode
Privacy Guides sits down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher a slate of bills – including KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the App Store Accountability Act, and ongoing efforts to repeal Section 230 – being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.
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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Bad Internet Bills
02:46 Introduction: Taylor Lorenz
03:52 Repealing Section 230
04:57 What is Section 230?
09:37 How Does Section 230 Protect Small Websites?
11:04 How Does Section 230 Relate to Privacy?
12:48 What is the SCREEN Act?
17:13 How Would Identity Verification Work?
20:15 Identity Verification is Already Happening
22:02 What is KOSA?
23:02 KOSA is Bad For Everyone
27:03 How Would KOSA Hurt Small Websites?
29:26 KOSA Would Censor Everyone
32:56 Final Thoughts & BadInternetBills
34:48 Thanks to Taylor
34:58 Support Us!
Sources: https://www.privacyguides.org/p/c49a1906-63eb-44a4-91cf-a53f243ea29a/
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