Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Presumably quite selectively, based on the user’s political leanings.

Not defend Democrats too much here, but they clearly have far less of a habit of doing this than the Republicans, even if they do enforce things quite selectively when it comes to actual leftists while letting Nazis run around with seeming impunity.

Colorado has been a solidly Blue state since the W. Bush years, and even then, it was pretty split down the middle with just over half going to Bush.

Further, the two main sponsors of the bill are both Democrats.

Once again, not saying Democrats aren’t guilty of selective enforcement, just pointing out that they’re far less likely to do so (or at least less likely to do so against conservatives, for genuine leftists it seems up for debate).

Now, that also means nothing in context to how other politicians can use this kind of legislation negatively, even if the writers and sponsors truly have the best of intentions. Democrats had the best intentions when it came to the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security as well, and way back then folks like me were saying “this seems pretty dangerous, especially if we ever have a despot take control of the country and the levers for these tools” which clearly has come to pass.

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