WHAT'S going on with this KOSA bill?

Yeah. I kept seeing post about this on the staff picks on pixilart. Kinda scary tbh. The only upside to that stupid bill is the story potential. Hope it never passes.

Considering how a fair bit of this is how it would be used to censor anything non-religious, I thought it'd be fitting to link to Gokai Orange's latest video about quite possibly one of the most horrifying & awful Chruch plays ever made & how in some ways it is kind of related to what pro-KOSA Bill can be like:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h4E4h6Jk5k
Trust me, the last parts of this play are something else & NOT in a good way.

The crazy thing is that at least in the Christian community, like no one can even agree on what version of the Bible is the "fully right" one. Watch the wild KJV only people come up and start censoring the more scholarly NIV version, and the ensuing chaos. There are groups within the religion who think we shouldn't be using any modern medicine, no divorce should be allowed period, women shouldn't wear pants, we should still follow dietary laws, we should actually be going to church on Saturdays, etc. And somehow we expect that these people somehow aren't a threat. If even more lax/diverse interpretations of Christianity are at threat, what does that mean for the non-religious? 
EDIT: Was watching the video and good lord, could they come up with a more stereotypical version of hell? Like seriously. And also the usual "all non-Christians are evil deviant trying to tempt you away" garbage. People can 100% be moral without religion, check out Japan or Taiwan for examples, it's called "If everyone follows their selfish desires, then we won't be able to advance and make life more comfortable for ourselves." Also, the mother working on Sunday? Like...people have to work on Sunday in several cases, think firefighters, police officers, government workers, hospital people, etc. Heck, one of the reasons that the working class is dropping out of church FASTER than the more educated elite (yes, I was surprised too) is that church has become a status symbol/community popularity contest/limited run event. Many working class people HAVE to work on Sundays and many churches offer few other options for worship services. Ridiculous. 

Nothing new on my end as of now-feel free to share if anyone finds differently.

www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s1409
The "tracker" for the bill. Pretty nifty.

Not an update per se, but Indiana House Bill 1447 is being passed to try to ban "harmful materials" from schools and libraries and could possibly lead to prosecution of librarians and teachers. I totally understand ensuring that children are not being groomed by predatory adults via inappropriate material but COME ON, we all know that "harmful materials" could easily be applied to telling kids that women can live fulfilling lives without being married, poly, divorced, cohabiting couples, and LGBTQ+ people exist, systemic racism is a thing or something like that.

I don't see how parents are allowed to tell another parent how to raise their kids by banning other people's choices to let their kids choose what to read. My own parent was a MEGA fan of 1984 and encouraged me to read it, yet they could be prosecuted under this new law for getting me, a 14 year old, to read 1984. How very "pro-freedom of them," amirite?

Also how very "pro-Authoritarian/Communist/dictatorship" regime of them to ban books. Again, doing the very thing they criticized the Soviet Union, modern China, Iran, or North Korea over. Should be noted that this bill is a reincarnation of a similar bill that died. Let's bet on this one being killed too.

Yeah, I remember when a lot of conservatives WANTED their kids reading as much as possible, and often bemoaned the inevitable decline in reading as cable TV, video games, and VHS/DVDs became common in homes. My very conservative parents heavily criticized any parent who didn't read to their child, or just let the TV babysit their kid, or never took their kids to the library. I think one reason they didn't let us have cable TV until my very late teen years was because they wanted me and my sibling to still see books as a primary source of fun (they were successful, LOL). The earlier America they endlessly yap on about was built on widespread literacy, our Founding Fathers were all very highly literate, and they didn't just read the Bible only! How the tables have turned.

And it's so silly, because books offer a safe CONTEXT for so many issues, and make for a great springboard. So many of these same conservative parents just throw a tablet at their kid and walk away without thinking of how context is lacking on the internet, and children don't have the best internet literacy skills, and how harmful that can be to their mental and emotional health. Nonfiction books often go through actual review processes and have to include citations, internet sites? NOPE. I remember my own parent (again, a major CONSERVATIVE) being a Judy Blume fan. Would they be shamed, if not arrested for spreading "inappropriate material to a minor," I wonder, by giving me an old beloved copy of "Are you there God, it's Me, Margaret?"

I do wonder though if attempted book bans/internet site censorship are more common now, or if we just know about them more due to widespread internet access? Keep in mind that plenty of people didn't even want there to be implications of say, cohabiting couples in shows made for ADULTS in the 90s, now you find plenty of them in today's entertainment. No kidding, shows could actually be banned/canceled over things we would see as super weird to be outraged about today (or with these parents, sadly maybe NOT).