Comment on 'Kids Online Safety Act' will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.

• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is actually a fantastic example of typical politics, but not in the way you’re imagining. It’s a classic poison pill. Write a bill with something good (protecting children’s privacy online, which I think we’d all agree is good) and then put something unpalatable into it (transphobia and homophobia).

  Someone votes for it, “Why do you hate LGBT people?” Someone votes against it, “Why don’t you want children to have stronger privacy laws on the Internet?”

  It’s exhausting and a lose-lose. That said, I prefer if they don’t vote for it and take heat for “being anti privacy”. You don’t negotiate with people’s rights.

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  • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please explain in detail how this bill dies a single good thing for children.

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    • primbin@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Section 3a of the bill is the part that would be used to target LGBTQ content.

      Sections 4 talks about adding better parental controls which would give general statistics about what their kids are doing online, without parents being able to see/helicopter in on exaxrlt what their kids were looking at. It also would force sites to give children safe defaults when they create a profile, including the ability to disable personalized recommendations, placing limitations on dark patterns designed to manipulate children to stay on platforms for longer, making their information private by default, and limiting others’ ability to find and message them without the consent of children. Notably, these settings would all be optional, but enabled by default for children/users suspected to be children.

      I think the regulations described in section 4 would mostly be good things. They’re the types of settings that I’d prefer to use on my online accounts, at least. However, the bad outweighs the good here, and the content in section 3a is completely unacceptable.

      Funnily enough, I had to read through the bill twice, and only caught on to how bad section 3a was on my second time reading it.

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      • elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the regulations described in section 4 would mostly be good things. They’re the types of settings that I’d prefer to use on my online accounts, at least.

        Then put them on your accounts. Any regulation in this area is unacceptable.

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    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know that it does. If bills and the discourse around them were actually about the stated topic, it would be revolutionary to politics.

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• Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The only cracks here is that the senate are all a bunch of olds who don’t understand the internet.

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  • asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This tbh…

    They fear what thy don’t understand…

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  • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure they do, it is a series of tubes.

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• Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Actually no, and furthermore I reject your ‘both sides’ rhetoric wholesale.

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  • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I legitimately can’t fucking stand idiots like you.

    You can agree with the overall or the majority of policy decisions of a political party while still criticizing their individual decisions as people. To think your political party is somehow ‘above it’ or morally just through and through is being willfully ignorant. It’s a level of mental gymnastics that’s outright absurd.

    Again, you can still vote for these people and still believe doing so increases the quality of life. And yes, we can make a distinction that one party isn’t just the ‘lesser of two evils’.

    But holy fuck, seriously. Both sides voted to invade the middle east, both sides vote to increase the military budget, both sides vote to increase their own congressional benefits, and both sides play the game where you need to vote on someone’s bill to get them to vote on yours, etc.

    Just because one is clearly better than the other doesn’t remove them from criticism and doesn’t deny the fact that they are still politicians doing political shit.

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    • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dude you are basically Hyde from That 70s Show riffing after a joint trying to dunk on “The Man”. You never have to dog far with losers like you to find the conspiracy theories and alternative facts and we all know form there it’s a Misty mountain hop to alt right malarkey.

      Go sell crazy somewhere else.

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      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Anyone that doesn’t support the party is an evil right wing monster and must be destroyed by any means!

        You’re the crazy and dangerous one here

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