More “for the children” invasive bullshit. Less privacy and more government intrusion is not what voters want out of bipartisanship.

I’m somewhat heartened by what happened with SOPA, but the ongoing attempts to remove constitutional protections “because it’s the internet” are not a sign that things are going in the right direction.

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      They can open a pdf, or their Legislative Assistants can. That stuff is performative, making sure we don’t expect them to regulate huge corporations because they’re so incompetent. This is the stuff they’re interested in regulating, so they do.

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    Many american states are right now making laws to persecute LGBT people and women who have abortions, and anyone believes associating personal ID to every post is a good idea?

    The kind of stuff people try to push in name of “protecting the children” is wild.

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    Many american states are right now making laws to persecute LGBT people and women who have abortions, and anyone believes associating personal ID to every post is a good idea?

    The kind of stuff people try to push in name of “protecting the children” is wild.

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    Drives me nuts that people do this garbage “for the kids” while doing nothing to support the groups working to stop actual child abuse. Go support NCMEC or something instead of being worried a child might Google “gay”.

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      That’s cuz it’s not for the kids, any time they want to shoehorn in some stupid bill, it’s always “for the kids” or “for national security”, so when people rightfully oppose a massive invasion of privacy, they can say “They hate the kids look!”.

      It’s a lot easier to defend “Protecting children” than it is to defend what they’re actually wanting to do. If this actually goes through, I honestly probably would just drop off posting things online. I’ve been off Twitter and Facebook for a long time, I left reddit over the 3rd party apps, honestly I just don’t care anymore, I will oppose this 100%, but if it gets passed, I guess I’m just done posting lol