More “for the children” invasive bullshit. Less privacy and more government intrusion is not what voters want out of bipartisanship.

I’m somewhat heartened by what happened with SOPA, but the ongoing attempts to remove constitutional protections “because it’s the internet” are not a sign that things are going in the right direction.

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    Drives me nuts that people do this garbage “for the kids” while doing nothing to support the groups working to stop actual child abuse. Go support NCMEC or something instead of being worried a child might Google “gay”.

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      That’s cuz it’s not for the kids, any time they want to shoehorn in some stupid bill, it’s always “for the kids” or “for national security”, so when people rightfully oppose a massive invasion of privacy, they can say “They hate the kids look!”.

      It’s a lot easier to defend “Protecting children” than it is to defend what they’re actually wanting to do. If this actually goes through, I honestly probably would just drop off posting things online. I’ve been off Twitter and Facebook for a long time, I left reddit over the 3rd party apps, honestly I just don’t care anymore, I will oppose this 100%, but if it gets passed, I guess I’m just done posting lol

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        Having had to work in removing CSAM from a hosting provider, it just feels extra insulting when idiots say things are “for the kids”. Between that, and the likelihood of all these companies holding your driver license and subsequently leaking it online in a hack, I just can’t wrap my head around it on any level.

        That said, I suspect it’s untenable to apply this to smaller orgs like the fediverse anyway so I don’t see the rubber hitting the road over here.

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          I agree with you on that, either way shits fucked, hopefully they don’t fuck it up more