3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.

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• herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fact: Any time a bill has a name about protecting children, it’s never actually about protecting children.

  Also, what do the big tech companies have to gain by supporting this bill? They’re typically opposed to anything that can open them up to litigation.

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think big tech companies are trying to figure out which side of politics they need to kiss ass on so that they can continue unfettered growth.

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    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t fool yourself, they own both sides. The only difference is that each special interest will pick a side to publicly donate to, and then funnel dark money to the other - gotta cover those bases.

      Big Tech is pro-regulation at this point, at least the regulations that make the cost of entry for new companies prohibitively expensive for any up and comers.

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  • streetfestival@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the tech companies believe they’ll get good PR for a bill that purports to be about child safety. In actuality, the bill will allow them to censor anything they want on their platforms while sidestepping criticism about curtailing free speech because they can say “we’re just trying not to get sued; if you have a problem, take it up with Washington”

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  • fidodo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems like what they would gain is forcing users to have over PII to access a non blocked content. It’s good for their ability to make money off advertising and forcing users into closed eco systems they control, and killing competition that doesn’t require registration.

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same with freedom/patriotism. Or really anything that’s meant to ekove a specific type of emotion.

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    • veloxization@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also narrow my eyes whenever I see the word “family” now.

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  • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Control

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shields them from liability, kisses the ring of the powers that be, and makes them look like they are doing something good.

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• huginn@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Snap
  2. X
  3. Microsoft

  Saved you a click

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  • EpicVision@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah yes, some of the shittiest tech companies in the world teaming up with the dumbest morons in existence to enforce dumb politics and censor free information, trying to turn the open internet into a shit hole of censorship like China. Amazing!

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  • cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks. Did you know your username is one of Odin’s ravens?

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    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks. Did you know your username is one of a tree’s nuts?

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  • JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fucking canonical, snap just keeps getting worse and worse.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Microsoft loves this bill

  • X/Twitter loves this bill

  • Snap Inc/Snapchat loves this bill

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  • oDDmON@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Parasites and control freaks endorse “child safety “ bill, what could possibly go wrong?

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The biggest take away from all this is

  A handful of tech companies manage and control the majority of public information.

  A handful of politicians who are in bed with the same corporations and they are all willing to control that information for their own personal religious beliefs

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• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Serious question: If this bill passes, how will the US Internet be meaningfully different than China’s Internet, if it’s used to censor stuff the government doesn’t like?

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well… The internet was originally built on decentralized communications. We may have to transition more heavily to the darkweb, any attempts to block that would be an attack on freedom of speech.

    Humanity seems to progress/regress in waves. We’ll try to ride this out, and some of us will use ingenuity to make a taller ladder vs the govt’s taller walls. They can never keep pace.

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why not Lemmy / Mastodon / etc.? IDK if we need “dark web”. We just need to decentralize.

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• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SnapChat, Microsoft, and twitter.

  Those are the three.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say to boycott them but you already probably have if you’re here

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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Snapchat and X, definitely. But microsoft is unavoidable for work.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Glad I only use 1 of those and even than just for my boring job.

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• streetfestival@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the fall, Jezebel reported how a bipartisan bill ostensibly meant to protect children from harmful content online could be weaponized by Republican politicians to censor everything from LGBTQ+ content to sex ed info to abortion resources—and for all internet users, not just children.

  This is so dystopian

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Always assume the worst case scenario. This bill is another version of the “Patriot Act” that extends to whatever your dumbass state wants it to ban.

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• Devccoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For whatever reason, when I hear KOSA, it conjures up SOPA and PIPA. Feels like it’s been so long since any of these came up but I guess existential-level threats to internet content and privacy never fully die~

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  • Darkwatch00@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s because this bill is the evolution of those bills.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they will keep trying until the most egregious censorship passes

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kids Online Safety Shouldn’t Require Massive Online Censorship and Surveillance: 2023 Year in Review

  EFF link - they’re fighting this for us

  Link to check out the merch they have for donors. Cherish my shirt from them.

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  • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As an aside, they always say to edit your message to your representatives. What do you say?

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oo very nice. I might donate money for that shirt.

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• CaptainProton@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nobody defended communities discussing illegal things, then nobody defended communities discussing questionable legal things, then nobody defended disfavored things like firearms channels/YouTubers, now it’s your turn.

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t have enough money to play the game.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Humanity doesn’t learn and this is how it works at all times, so I’m confused whether your comment is as useful as it can be or completely useless.

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    • CaptainProton@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s futile I’m afraid

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• JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have these people nothing better to do.

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t wait for porn to be blurred out crotches and boobs with little stars instead of nipples. Darn!

  It was perfect! In case you are reading this in the future next couple of years, back in 2024, you just typed a few words on the search engine and you too could witness excellent quality videos of various men and women having fun with their body parts in ways that you didn’t even think were possible, and are too weak to do if you had anyone to do them with. We are talking penises, mouths, vaginas, balls and boobs and their various combinations.

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• Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Violence is an answer.

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  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This will probably what will happen.

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably something to do with healthcare costs and preventing people from taking FMLA for babies

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