American politics is so cooked that I can't even research a piece of legislation on Wikipedia without receiving brain damage. I just Googled "Kids Online Safety Act" to try and understand what it is and these are actual excerpts from the Wikipedia page.
"The conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation wrote that the initial 2022 iteration of KOSA did not go far enough, as the bill did not explicitly list transgender health care as a harm."
"Senator Blackburn, co-author of the bill, has argued that some education about racism and the civil rights movement overlaps with critical race theory, which she labels a "dangerous ideology" that can inflict "mental and emotional damage" upon children."
I've always found it weird the way in which a lot of reporting on US political issues normalizes completely unhinged political beliefs that aren't even remotely grounded in reality by just verbatim quoting shit some lunatic said without making any attempt to address how insane it is or why it's wrong.
