They said they take away the liberties of young people - they took away the liberties of all people.
At this point they're the ones creating false premises and the people dont have any real way of challenging that.
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yeah, good luck with that. I'll just go read a book under a tree at that point. The internet can just be a bunch of bots shitposting to each other. The day I have to have ID to use the internet is the day I log off for good.
Its been over a decade since i last sat in a hammock and read a book. Kinda excited for the internet to die now tbh.
The chains are starting to break, we're almost free!
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The reason they want age verification isn’t to protect the kids. It’s to verify the entity making a request is a real person and not a bot so they can charge more for the ad space.
Also to track what everyone does on the internet so it can be used against them.
That’s what the government wants and happens to align with industry
Yep why do you think Facebook is behind most of these bills.
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If they actually cared about kids, the Epstein files would have been released ages ago with no redactions. No politician cares about you or your kids.
You don't get it. This is to know who is underage and where they live. No one said Epstein's death was the end of their pedo business.
I'd be surprised if it was. The man was a symptom, not the root cause of the problem, and he certainly didn't do it all by himself.
He was the stereotypical man in the underworld who could get you anything, as long as you could afford the price.
Others would almost certainly have filled in the gap he left by now.
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the list of "if they actually cared about kids, they would have/should have done X" is so long you could probably print it out at an 8 point font and it'd still reach from coast to coast across the width of america.
We're going to PROTECT the CHILDREN by ~~PROSECUTING Jeffrey Epstein's CO Conspirators!~~ GIVING Jeffrey Epstein's CO Conspirators ACCESS to your Children!
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Now they don't have to wait for you to put your daughter into modeling or beauty contest. They can access her right through your Wi-Fi.
I'd turn that vote tally into a six-seven "joke", but that would require more critical thought than what every politician put into drafting and/or voting that law through Congress.
They’re preparing for civil unrest.
It's worth noting that this isn't a distraction, this is the main event.
Remember, it’s not about the kids.
It never was. But repubs certainly can't stop thinking about them.
There's a lot of blue seats in that image too
This will be a kiss of death for every site that enacts it
Never about protecting children about fighting privacy and making data collection easier.
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This is such bullshit. If they really cared about the well-being of children, they'd make sure they had free healthcare, free daycare, and free college/trade school.
This is ONLY about connecting our identities with our online activity. They just put a bunch of people in prison for DECADES for possessing writings that were "anti-government," so that allowed them to be classified as ANTIFA terrorists. This will allow them to do that with ANYONE who posts something they don't like.
Just because these parasites claim to have a righteous rationalization for this, doesn't mean we have to accept it. We KNOW they are lying, and the real reason is to control the adults of this country, not the children.
A lifetime of invasive surveillance is far more damaging to society, than kids discovering that men and women have different genitalia.
This is one of those deals where the ALL fall in line from both parties. That's when you know the Big Fix is in. The Sociopathic Oligarchs demanded this because it not only makes them mind-boggling wealth, but it also allows them to kill those who are causing them trouble.
And the people we elected to protect us, sold us out - nearly all of them.
Obviously, I hate it, but
specified online platforms
that's a lot more weaksauce than I was expecting. I guess these old fossils don't know that there are websites based in other countries
I would highly recommend actually reading the full text of the bill. It is a lot more than what is in the body of the post.
It is not clear to me whether a site would need to be hosted in the US to fall under this law or if they would just need to be accessible in the US.
I would post the definitions but there are 7 titles under this law and 5 of them each have their own definition.
Edit: just to be clear. I hate this law too. ID requirements will kill many platforms or people will use vpns to circumvent.
Why would someone from another country follow U.S. law. Not their problem.
If they want to do business in the US then it follows that they would need to follow us law when conducting that business. It is the same reason that valve has to follow California law despite not being headquartered in California.
If that weren't the case then businesses would just move to international waters and claim to only need to follow maritime law.
Democrats are smiling foxes.
Surprised to see Hirono on there, thats disappointing. But Schumer, Slotkin, Fetterman, Kloubachar, Whitehouse, Warner .. the usual band of traitorous republican-lite DNC idiots is no big surprise. Thanks for the link.
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Welcome back, SOPA. We didn't miss you. In fact, SOPA should've been actually dead instead of waiting to resurface for 14 years.
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I’m tired man
internet was fun while it lasted; new internet is ass anyway
This title may be cited as the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act or the SCREEN Act.
Oh wow, they really love their acronyms!
Or the 'Killing Internet Dissent and Speech' Act. KOSA is the 'Killing Online Speech Act.'
I wonder if it'll ever be feasible to do some kind of mass, federated mesh networking to cut out the ISPs altogether.
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Should we just share memes and titties outside since the normies moved online and fucked it up?
WHAT THE FUCK. Fuck my representative fucking hell
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