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[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 147 points 1 year ago
[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] knyuqlr@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

oMg boTh sIdeS aRe nOt tHe sAmE.... except for when it comes to eroding freedoms

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Whose the Dem?

[–] RustyShackleford@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

What about the other 20?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why do say of course?

[–] QubaXR@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] whataboutshutup@discuss.online 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why old men are so obsessed with kids? Are they pedo or something?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago

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 🌍 👩‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀 🌑

[–] T156@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is quite scary. I don't know if it being on the calendar means they're guaranteed to vote on it but the text of the bill would completely fuck the Fediverse. You literally need paid personnel to comply with these regulations.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3663/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Host somewhere else. They're not the world police.

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

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

[–] viliam@feddit.ch 22 points 1 year 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?

[–] ccf@ccf.sh 21 points 1 year ago
[–] pglpm@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Culturally we're going back to the Middle Ages...

Specifically the Dark Ages.

[–] karrbs@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Isn't this also the bill that could screw up encryption too?

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 17 points 1 year ago

woah no way

in other news, every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Natha@discuss.online 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it something that China has been doing for a while? In their version, it's called 'spreading positive energy'.

[–] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It's almost like everything the US said about China was just a projection of their own insecurities.

It might get to a point where China actually is relatively more liberating than "stable democracies" in internet access.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

What else is new?

[–] iMastari@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Protect kids from guns would be better.

[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Jack O'Neil's son would still be alive today if he didn't get a hold of his father's gun. But then we wouldn't have Stargate. It's sort of a toss up to me.

This doesn't seem different from what many if not most major platforms are already doing voluntarily. Just replace the word "depressing" with the word "toxic" and suddenly everyone will support this.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

This headline could have been written 20 years ago.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good luck with that. They can't even stop child abuse online and that's an actual problem that should be solved.

Dunno why you're being downvoted

[–] ProfessorZhu@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why take a principled stand against those who are pushing this when you can just say "government" and leave everyone thinking this is a bipartisan problem?

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Because it is a bipartisan problem.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the Internet was a mistake ?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe leaving the trees was a mistake.