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why is it always the worst laws proposed under the guise of protecting children
Because you can’t argue that. Any other ground reason for policy can be challenged or counterargued or relies on values which are arguable.
No one is going to plainly argue “ok but how about we do not protect children?”. And if someone tries a different angle such as “this law is not really going to protect anyone and will bring a lot of problems for children and adults alike” it will be easily dismissed as “you insidious snake, why do you want to hurt children?! Don’t sabotage child protection!”. Which autokills conversation.
it has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with destroying privacy
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?
Because it is a bipartisan problem.
every time they say it’s to “protect the children” or “protect freedom” it is invariably neither.
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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.
Isn’t this also the bill that could screw up encryption too?
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
What else is new?
Isn’t it something that China has been doing for a while? In their version, it’s called ‘spreading positive energy’.
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.
woah no way
in other news, every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Perhaps politicians should concentrate on making it so there’s less depressing stuff in the world for anyone to see and hear, and not creating more of it with things like this rubbish bill. 🤷♀️
This headline could have been written 20 years ago.
