• @[email protected]
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    5811 months ago

    Not the US government, republicans and one random house dem that seems to hate technology.

    • Teon
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      And then they lower the age that kids can get married to 14/15 (pedos!), and change labor laws so pre-teens can work in dangerous jobs or serve alcohol.
      If they want to protect “children”, we need Xtra restrictive gun laws, and child abuse laws. Who protects children from abuse at home?
      Not conservatives, they are the ones behind all this.

  • QubaXR
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    Somehow it never crossed their minds to stop selling firearms to teens, but vendor Internet in the name of protecting kids? Sign us up. Fuck that.

    Pretty much any bill, worldwide, that includes the phrase “project kids” is always about pushing censorship, government surveillance and other forms of oppression on everyone. And guess what: zero actual benefit to kids.

    • Bizarroland
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      I guess we’ll just become criminals and host our servers in countries that actually respect freedom.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s never about kids. If they gave half a fuck about kids, we’d have free school lunches and teachers would be paid a fair salary.

      So long as the internet is around to distribute fact-checks and officer-involved homicide videos they have no plausible lies by which the 80% of us in poverty or precarity should tolerate the abuse of plutocrats and capitalists.

      So this is a first amendment issue: it’s about suppression of political speech. It always was 🌍 👩‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀 🌑

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      They’re a convenient scapegoat. You can accuse the other side of not caring about/endangering children for political points, and children don’t have politically-relevant opinions, or votes, so you’re never going to have children speaking up and going “that’s not correct”, or protesting against you for a law you’ve passed. If they do end up protesting, you can point fingers at the parents and say that they’re indoctrinating the children.

  • mPony
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    every time they say it’s to “protect the children” or “protect freedom” it is invariably neither.

  • @[email protected]
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    2411 months ago

    Fine, so who will be judging if there’s a depressive content on the internet, a psychologist? Also how about non-US sites, will they be banned or something?

  • @[email protected]
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    2411 months ago

    Perhaps politicians should concentrate on making it so there’s less depressing stuff in the world for anyone to see and hear, and not creating more of it with things like this rubbish bill. 🤷‍♀️

  • stravanasu
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    2311 months ago

    Culturally we’re going back to the Middle Ages…

  • karrbs
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    Isn’t this also the bill that could screw up encryption too?

  • GreenBottles
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    it has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with destroying privacy

  • Arobanyan
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    Knowing Biden he’s all in on this, he signed off on the Patriot Act too so f*** him

    neoliberals are just as bad as Republicans

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        “The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere

      • EnderWi99in
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        Not even close, but try again. They just look the same when you’re so far left you need to squint to see anyone to the right of you. There is a massive gap between “neoliberals” as you call them, and the modern conservative electorate. Those “neoliberals” also represent the majority of voters on the left, hence the guy who is president being one of them. Stay mad though.

        • @[email protected]
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          -111 months ago

          You sure know how to use a lot of words to say nothing.

          Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Even when no cogent thought is formed.