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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Correction: Conservatives want to control online speech.

The only control conservatives want over kids is to keep them quiet while they molest them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Republicans are not going to molest all the children… the unfuckable ones will be put to work in factories.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What could go wrong

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He is though, just not malicious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He very much is. The two parties in the US at this point are conservative and openly fascist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a tough one. Neoliberalism is still toxic as fuck. But, he's the weapon we've been handed and he seems to be doing some damage at least.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the angles to this KOSA bill are so interesting- a whirlwind of bad ideas thrown together. I mostly know it from its obvious attempts to target LGBTQ+ stuff, but it's really interesting that they think that they should block the super sad news of our dying planet. The best part is that they don't seem to be targeting say, newspapers or TV. Total idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Newspapers and TV channels know how to use their teeth - and can be bought. Buying the internet might be a bit beyond their budget.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha true, but I feel like opening up any old media except for CNN is often just as depressing in different ways.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everything is ALWAYS for the kids with these clowns. It’s because it’s easier to sell that to their ignorant voters than it would be to admit they want to control their every move.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In legal terms we call it pretextual law. And usually they are stuck down by courts because they aren’t here for this phony shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By “… they aren’t here for this phony shit,” You mean all of the anti-LGBTQ laws that have passed? Because they’re VERY much here for that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What's even scarier is that it's got support from both dems and reps: introduced by a Democrat, co-sponsored by 22 Republicans and 21 Democrats. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1409/cosponsors

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Allowing the government to control online speech will create a world no kid should have to grow up into. At some point you have to ask yourself if you're protecting anyone.

Of course they're not going to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But do nothing about guns, got it