Rand Paul Calls Out “Kids Online Safety Act” as Giving Government “Bizarre” Censorship Powers

Andrew Anglin August 3, 2024

No one wants to vote against kids and their safety.

The way they’ve framed this bill, it seems like only a child molester would be against it. In reality, it’s the biggest online censorship and spying bill in US history.

New York Post:

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed with flying bipartisan colors in the Senate Tuesday — but Rand Paul stood virtually alone against it.

“I have a great deal of sympathy for the issue,” Sen. Paul (R-KY) told The Post. “But I’m afraid it will lead to censorship.”

The bill, which passed with a whopping 91 votes in favor, is an attempt to protect children from the harms of the internet. It establishes a “duty of care” for social media platforms to protect minors, and would require them to suppress content that could cause harm.

Paul said that, while the bill is well-intentioned, it could enable the government to censor speech that it subjectively deems anxiety-provoking for youth.

“The whole idea that we’re going to set up a committee and we’re going to give a vague definition of anxiety — and then say anything that causes anxiety we’re going to give a group the power to regulate — is bizarre,” Paul added.

That is really bizarre.

Because anything can cause anxiety.

Watching those videos of fat women doing reviews of Disneyland makes me anxious. These women look like water balloons that could just pop. And if they popped, it wouldn’t be water, but disgusting pink goo that would ooze out. It makes me anxious. I’m sure it also makes a lot of kids anxious.

He referred to the “absurdity of the anxiety argument,” explaining that virtually anything could be considered anxiety-producing by the Federal Trade Commission, which has been tasked with enforcement of KOSA.

Paul points to a Harvard survey that found 65% of people aged 15 to 30 say they have intrusive anxiety about climate change on a daily basis. Therefore, KOSA could theoretically be used to censor climate change content.

“I would be one of the first people kicked off the internet because I’m sure that I say things that cause people anxiety,” the senator said. “I just think there’s a real danger in letting government regulate this or take things down.”

Well, I feel that, Rand. I feel ya, brother.

This is a new angle on censorship, this “protect the children” thing. It seems like it should have been obvious. But now they’ve spent all this time hyping up how kids are getting sexually abused and so on, and the internet is this big danger for kids.

It would actually make more sense, if the internet is a threat to kids, to just make the internet like cigarettes and say you have to be 18 to use it. I don’t support that, but this would be the logical line of thought.

Probably, this bill is going to pass eventually, and then be impossible to enforce, and just be selectively enforced over time.

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