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国立研究開発法人審議会（第20回）の開催について

令和5年度補正予算及び令和6年度予算　「放送コンテンツによる地域情報発信力強化事業」の公募結果

「安全性・信頼性を確保したデジタルインフラの海外展開支援事業」 令和6年度地方枠の公募の採択結果

令和6年7月25日からの大雨による被害に係る普通交付税（9月定例交付分）の繰上げ交付

eシールに係る認定制度の関係規程策定のための有識者会議（第2回）

小規模中継局等のブロードバンド等による代替に関する作業チーム（第22回）

「聴覚障害者等による電話の利用の円滑化に関する基本的な方針」の一部改正案に関する意見募集

危険物の規制に関する規則の一部を改正する省令（案）等に対する意見公募の結果及び改正省令等の公布

令和6年度 語学指導等を行う外国青年招致事業（JETプログラム）の概要

「ICTサイバーセキュリティ政策の中期重点方針」（案）に対する意見募集の結果及び 「ICTサイバーセキュリティ政策の中期重点方針」の公表

情報通信審議会 情報通信技術分科会 IPネットワーク設備委員会（第78回） 開催案内

令和6年7月25日からの大雨に関する被害状況等について（第18報）

情報流通行政局情報流通振興課 任期付職員採用情報

衛星放送ワーキンググループ（第10回）

「サービス産業動向調査」2024年（令和6年）5月分（速報）

令和6年7月25日からの大雨に関する被害状況等について（第17報）

令和6年7月31日付　総務省人事

San Mateo County’s policy of digitizing and destroying physical mail sent to people in its jails violates the privacy and free expression rights of both incarcerated people and those who communicate with them. The County’s contract with Smart Communications—the company that digitizes mail sent to people in San Mateo’s jails—expires on August 31, 2024. We need your help to ensure the County doesn’t renew it: tell the County and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office that they should let their contract with Smart Communications expire.

The Senate just passed a bill that will let the federal and state governments investigate and sue websites that they claim cause kids mental distress. It’s a terrible idea to let politicians and bureaucrats decide what people should read and view online, but the Senate passed KOSA on a 91-3 vote.   

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Don't let congress censor the internet

Bill proponents have focused on some truly tragic stories of loss, and then tied these tragedies to the internet. But anxiety, eating disorders, drug abuse, gambling, tobacco and alcohol use by minors, and the host of other ills that KOSA purports to address all existed well before the internet. 

The Senate vote means that the House could take up and vote on this bill at any time. The House could also choose to debate its own, similarly flawed, version of KOSA. Several members of the House have expressed concerns about the bill. 

The members of Congress who vote for this bill should remember—they do not, and will not, control who will be in charge of punishing bad internet speech. The Federal Trade Commission,  majority-controlled by the President’s party, will be able to decide what kind of content “harms” minors, then investigate or file lawsuits against websites that host that content. 

Politicians in both parties have sought to control various types of internet content. One bill sponsor has said that widely used educational materials that teach about the history of racism in the U.S. causes depression in kids. Kids speaking out about mental health challenges or trying to help friends with addiction are likely to be treated the same as those promoting addictive or self-harming behaviors, and will be kicked offline. Minors engaging in activism or even discussing the news could be shut down, since the grounds for suing websites expand to conditions like “anxiety.” 

KOSA will lead to people who make online content about sex education, and LGBTQ+ identity and health, being persecuted and shut down as well. Views on how, or if, these subjects should be broached vary widely across U.S. communities. All it will take is one member of the Federal Trade Commission seeking to score political points, or a state attorney general seeking to ensure re-election, to start going after the online speech his or her constituents don’t like. 

All of these speech burdens will affect adults, too. Adults simply won’t find the content that was mass-deleted in the name of avoiding KOSA-inspired lawsuits; and we’ll all be burdened by websites and apps that install ID checks, age gates, and invasive (and poorly functioning) software content filters. 

The vast majority of speech that KOSA affects is constitutionally protected in the U.S., which is why there is a long list of reasons that KOSA is unconstitutional. Unfortunately, the lawmakers voting for this bill have hand-waved away those concerns. They’ve also blown off the voices of millions of young people who will have their free expression constricted by this bill, including the thousands who spoke to EFF directly about their concerns and fears around KOSA. 

We can’t rely solely on lawsuits and courts to protect us from the growing wave of anti-speech internet legislation, with KOSA at its forefront. We need to let the people making the laws know that the public is becoming aware of their censorship plans—and won’t stand for them.

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Our Freedom Of Speech Doesn't End Online

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