• viliam@feddit.ch
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    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?

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      And then they lower the age that kids can get married to 14/15 (pedos!), and change labor laws so pre-teens can work in dangerous jobs or serve alcohol.
      If they want to protect “children”, we need Xtra restrictive gun laws, and child abuse laws. Who protects children from abuse at home?
      Not conservatives, they are the ones behind all this.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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
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      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.

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

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      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.

  • salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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    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. 🤷‍♀️

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    every time they say it’s to “protect the children” or “protect freedom” it is invariably neither.

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    Knowing Biden he’s all in on this, he signed off on the Patriot Act too so f*** him

    neoliberals are just as bad as Republicans