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

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• Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Of course it will. Then once they have all the trans people rounded up they’ll target the gays, then the blacks, the mexicans, and so on and so forth until everyone’s in camps that isn’t white.

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  • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re not safe even if you’re white. If nothing else they’ll target people who like the color blue just to keep some “enemy” in their sights.

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    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fascism requires an “other” to function. Once one “other” is a destroyed there will always be another one to take it’s place.

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    • EzekielJK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Working backwards, we could reasonably expect Italian, Irish, and Polish people. Discrimination really isn’t about the color of your skin if history is anything to go off of.

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well SCOTUS went ahead and let them have their anti-abortion laws, what else are they going to get their people distracted by? It was always going to be a never ending harassment of “others” leading to the spiral down into hell, SCOTUS just broke the seal for them to do it legally.

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  • weew@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they’ll never target the stupid, those are the people who will support them no matter what. They’re already trying to demonize intelligence and education.

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True. The dumbification of America has been going on for years.

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  • VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not about colour anymore, it’s the return of classism.

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• randon31415@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “The bill – endorsed by president Joe Biden…”

  Why in the world would Biden support this Heritage foundation garbage?

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  • Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator admits

    He’s a granddad. We shouldn’t have granddads who can’t work a remote be president. I assume he can’t work a remote.

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  • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you starting to see the cracks in the foundation? Are you starting to see how the game is played?

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    • 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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    • 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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    • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    $$$$$$$$$$

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  • Gravel8@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because he is an old senile man

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s desperate to look bipartisan

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  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then again, Pinknews isn’t exactly a impartial source itself either, is it?

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  • peanutdust@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Biden has hurt blacks more than any larper nazi today.

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• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Trans porn must be curropting children because it’s all I watch now and my mind is way stronger than a child’s.” -Marsha Blackburn

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  • buddhabound@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …and my mind is stronger than a child’s…

    It’s not though. It really, really isn’t.

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• Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, at this stage you can tell that by the name.

  These deplorables love children so much that they don’t even bat an eye at using child sexual abuse as a political tool while simultaneously turning a blind eye to 300,000 children raped by clergy.

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  • GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or children starving because they have to pay for shitty food at school, or children starving and having a bad life because their parents can’t afford to pay for more even if they already work, or children at orphanages…

    Yeah, much like with forbidding abortion (but then never caring whether the no longer-aborted child will have a proper home to live), children are just a political tool.

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• the_crab_man@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It should be the parents’ job to regulate what kind of content their children consume on the internet, not the government’s.

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  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Parents aren’t generally capable of that, I’ve learned.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This isn’t about protecting kids it’s about banning LGBT persons from the internet.

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• xc2215x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not a surprise. That is the intention.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep exactly as we all knew.

  She wants to confine children like I was to the years of confusion and alienation I had to go through. That’s cruel. I should not have had to feel so alone and nobody else should either.

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  • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is more than just cruel. It is abusive and genocidal. LGBT youth will die because of this law and the countless others being passed in certain states.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh absolutely and they’ll likely try to punish those who try to save them

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We should protect the children, lets start with the Catholic Church.

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  • peanutdust@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and the child mutilating church

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• InternetUser2012@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How about we go after the real threat, churches.

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• BarterClub@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Send your message to Congress. Here is a simple way to do so. resist.bot/petitions/PCCXRJ

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• mimichuu_@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why is it always the Save The Children Act and not the Erradicate Trans People Act?

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  • SirStumps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kind of like Citizens United, has a better ring than “Politician pay offs”.

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need to harm the children to help the children don’t you understand?!!?!?!

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  • average_internet_enjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah the 1st amendment has gone out the window here. (on the other hand, why are they pushing the lgtbtq movement on kids. Kids aren’t smart at all and won’t understand the deeper meaning…)

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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This woman is the literal devil…

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• WuTang@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  which is good. kids should not get influenced or make any decision at such age.

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  • Poiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you grew up without anything influencing you, you’re either an inanimate object or a cat

    Good luck not being influenced by your surroundings

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  • chrischryse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ooooo totally because I (straight) was totally influenced by my gay uncle and other gay stuff I’ve seen online 🙄

    While we’re at it we should get rid of cartoons because kids shouldn’t see stuff like someone slowly falling with an umbrella and trying it in real life since they’re influenced.

    Just because someone is exposed to something at a young age doesn’t mean they’ll end up making decisions.

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    • WuTang@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I hardly find the link with trans… same with the argument to “then ban straight content too”. Gay guy doesn’t pretend to be an anime girl .

      trans is about mental disorder, dissociation between mind, body and frustration.

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  • legion02@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve always thought that about religious youth programs. How is that not indoctrination of the youth?

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    • WuTang@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So all straight and cis content should be banned too, right, or is it only “degenerate” (to use the word the nazis used) content that should be influencing them?

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  • pqdinfo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it were possible to “make” people gay, or trans, or whatever, then it would be possible to make gay or trans people straight or cis.

    And if it were possible, given the huge pressure to do so from all angles, someone would have found a way to do it by now.

    Kids are not going to be “made” LGBT by seeing something on the Internet. And if you talk to, for example, trans people older than the Internet, most will tell you about signs they had they were trans long before they had anything that could possibly introduce them to the subject.

    The only thing this bill will do will cut people off of all ages from sources of support.

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  • HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yall said the same thing about some of us being gay. Turns out when used all of the same talking points back then, we were still gay. I was influenced to not be gay, because gay people are disgusting pedophiles who worship Satan, and I ended up gay despite not being a pedophile or worshiping Satan.

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  • CaptFeather@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    First of all, kids will question their gender and sexuality whether you like it or not - internet or no internet. Secondly, the Internet is a safe haven for lgbtq+ kids and taking away those supportive communities is going to be nothing but harmful. What evidence do you have that exposure to lgbtq+ communities “corrupts” children? I’m guessing none because it just doesn’t. Be better.

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  • chiobu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So true bestie

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• ky56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great news. Hopefully this makes headlines everywhere and this abomination of an Act can be thrown out.

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• SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its not a bug, its a feature.

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• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a classic GOP move. Name a bill something like “Free Americans for Internet Freedom Act” that prevents net neutrality and idiots love the name and support it. Name a bill something like “Kids Online Safety Act” as a way to censor and control information, and idiots love the name and support it

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• Finnish_nationalisti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good

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  • SirPlus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Listen to the facist sing

    “Take hope here

    War is elsewhere

    You were chosen

    This is Gods land

    Soon we’ll be free

    Of blot and mixture

    Seeds planted by our Forefathers hand”

    A mass of promises

    Begin to rupture

    Like the pockets Of the new world kings

    Like swollen stomachs In Appalachia

    Like the priest that fucked you as he whispered holy things

    A mass of tears have transform the stones now

    Sharpened on suffering

    And woven into the slings

    Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress

    Taking today what tomorrow never brings

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    • Finnish_nationalisti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Typical American to recite whatever this poem is to a non-American. Am i supposed to know or care what it means?

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  • CaptFeather@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please explain?

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  • chiobu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    oui oui d’accord

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• BrownianMotion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  good.

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  • daFRAKKINpope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you carry all that hate around with you all the time, or are you just making today a special day?

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  • chiobu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your opinion is valid, king

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