Let your Congress-critters know this is not the right thing to do.

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    1 year ago

    I want them to pass an act called “Stop Protecting Kids on Social Media.” It can be part of the FUCKTHEMKIDS omnibus.

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    1 year ago

    I want to sponsor an act called like MURDER DEFENSELESS CHILDREN AND BANISH THEIR SOULS TO HELL ACT, but it’s just a tax cut for rich people.

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      That’s a job for the parents though isn’t it? And for early teenagers people seem to forget what positive influence the internet could have on their lives. Eg. many IT workers started fiddling around with stuff when they were quite young.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe stop for a second and consider how this bill is meant to act in concert with library book bans and cuts to school curriculum. Conservatives are coordinating bills and policies to cut off access to important knowledge about marginalized communities.

      The only way the far-right can build a young political base is if they can keep entire generations ignorant and uneducated, and unfortunately kids in red districts can’t rely on getting the education they need to be informed citizens from schools.

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    Yikes, please click on the link and do submit to your reps. Very easy to do. This kind of save the children labeling almost always gets voted in, so this is an uphill battle, but this is clearly a power grab, don’t let them take this, the implications are quite frightening. If policies like fosta / sesta can become reality, this can too. Things are degrading rapidly, fight it!

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    All the politicians that took multiple trips to Jeffery Epstein’s little playhouse want to protect the children!

    Won’t someone please protect the heckin’ children?!

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Is this one like KOSA meant to target transgender content and drag queens because that material (and specifically that material) is too spicy for America?

    Both the measures suck and are meant to defang the internet since they don’t like the public talking to each other so much, but the the US Senator who sponsored KOSA admitted it was specifically meant to censor the existence of LGBT+ folk, specifically trans folk.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely nothing hypocritical about politicians who are willing to sacrifice literally everyone outside of the people in their family wanting to ahem SaVe ThE kIdS. /s

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    At what point do we say “Screw it”, let Congress pass all the bills to wreck the internet, and then build a better one?