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1.  73% of students say shouting down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus is at least rarely acceptable.
2. 40% of students say using violence to stop someone from speaking on campus is at least rarely acceptable.
3. For every one conservative student, there are roughly six liberal students.
4. 45% of students say they have self-censored on campus at least once or twice a month.

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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and make government officials the arbiters of what young people, and in many cases, adults, can see online. It will likely lead many popular platforms to implement invasive age verification measures, forcing you to share more of your most sensitive data with more companies. That’s right: KOSA is a censorship bill that creates new privacy and security risks. We have to stop it.

The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe. If KOSA passes, whoever is in charge of the federal government will be able to apply pressure to social media companies to bury many legal, but potentially controversial topics behind age verification. Tell your representatives: This isn’t safety—it’s censorship. And online services are likely to implement this censorship with poorly working filters, which we know fail to properly distinguish “good” speech from “bad” speech.

On July 30, KOSA passed the U.S. Senate. But Representatives in the House are rightly concerned by the bill's impact on free speech. We need your help to tell them that this heavy-handed plan to prevent minors from accessing content that the government believes is not in their best interest is a terrible idea.

Tell your Representative to vote no on this bill.  Find contact info here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative