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Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well. (www.govtrack.us)
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So, OS-level age-gating is going federal, which will effectively kill your rights to device ownership and what's left of free speech and expression.

Enjoy your free speech while you still have it because this is a clear attempt to erase that right.

SOPA never died, it just went into hiding until time to reemerge, and now's that time, this is basically SOPA in a save the kids trenchcoat.

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[–] emmy67@lemmy.world 42 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

This is how the democrats lose the next election.

GJ snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Again

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, nobody really cares about this shit either way. No chance this costs dems an election, especially considering support for age verification laws have generally been bipartisan.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

this is one of the examples of how electoralism can only ever give us some breathing room, but never our full liberation. even a "good" politician is still a politician. they may have entered government to reshape government, but eventually working in government will reshape them.

i encourage others to work to get the best possible politicians into positions of power, but to also work on coagulating people power in order to topple those same positions of power. here are some things you can do:

  • organize a union
  • learn first aid
  • participate in mutual aid projects
  • become acquainted with self defense and community defense mechanisms
  • learn about reducing your digital footprint at protests
[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Liberation comes at the end of a gun.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

You're a bad person for pointing this out. /s