SMNTY Classics: What is KOSA and Why is it so Scary?
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Friend of the show Joey breaks down the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and why we need to pay attention to it in this classic epsode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.5 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to Stuff Whenever Told You, production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:28.6 | And for today's classic, we are bringing an episode that we did with Joey, |
| 0:42.1 | contributor to Joey, friend Joey, on COSA, which is an act that legislators are framing as protecting the children, but has a lot of extremely problematic and legitimate concerns around it, around how it's enforced, vague language |
| 0:51.3 | in there, and just abuse that could happen, limiting information, all of that stuff. |
| 0:58.1 | And we thought we should bring this one back because this is ongoing for one. |
| 1:04.6 | But there's a lot of similar legislation around the world. |
| 1:08.1 | And also we just had our fan fiction breakdown episode |
| 1:13.0 | that talked about a lot of laws similar to this |
| 1:15.9 | or a lot of things that people are watching similar to this. |
| 1:21.2 | And COSA, when it first came out, |
| 1:23.8 | a lot of people were like, |
| 1:25.4 | you know why you should pay attention? |
| 1:28.2 | It'll take your fan fiction away. Like, oh no, now you've got me. Save the fan fiction. Yes, saved a fan |
| 1:35.4 | fiction. So please enjoy this classic episode. |
| 1:43.3 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 1:44.4 | And Samantha. |
| 1:45.2 | And welcome to Stephon Never Told You, production of Iheart Radio. |
| 2:00.8 | And today we are so excited to be joined by a friend of the show, General Friend, Joey. |
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