MagneticFusion,

its always “protect children” or “terrorism”/“national security”

HLMenckenFan,
@HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly right.

Teon,
@Teon@kbin.social avatar

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.

Chreutz,

Except when it’s guns

Melpomene,
@Melpomene@kbin.social avatar

It is absolutely always one of those two, and they try this shit every session. Better solution? Kick any politician who signs off on these bills out of office and make it crystal clear that they've been booted because they're anti-speech and anti-privacy.

db2, (edited )

Good luck with that. They can’t even stop child abuse online and that’s an actual problem that should be solved.

Bonskreeskreeskree,

Dunno why you’re being downvoted

ccf,
Blizzard,
randon31415,

Not the US government, republicans and one random house dem that seems to hate technology.

TropicalDingdong,

Not the US government, republicans and one random house dem that seems to hate technology.

Whose the Dem?

RustyShackleford,

Blumenthal, of course.

Fredselfish,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

Why do say of course?

MiscreantMouse,
@MiscreantMouse@kbin.social avatar

He's always the one giving a 'bipartisan' veneer to these awful bills. Here's one trying to end encryption, which he co-sponsored with Lindsey Graham

Fredselfish,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

WTF then he isn’t a Democrat if he co authoring bills with Graham.

Bonskreeskreeskree,

What about the other 20?

knyuqlr,

The bill has 21 Democrats as cosponsors (22 Republicans). Source: www.congress.gov/bill/…/cosponsors

Bonskreeskreeskree,

oMg boTh sIdeS aRe nOt tHe sAmE… except for when it comes to eroding freedoms

mPony,

every time they say it's to "protect the children" or "protect freedom" it is invariably neither.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

This is quite scary. I don’t know if it being on the calendar means they’re guaranteed to vote on it but the text of the bill would completely fuck the Fediverse. You literally need paid personnel to comply with these regulations.

www.congress.gov/bill/…/all-actions?overview=clos…

db2,

Host somewhere else. They’re not the world police.

EatMyDick3,

They should raid people’s homes in foreign countries, we fucked those muslims in afganastan over what they did to us we can do it again if needed. We could also just block their service, would be even easier if not less fun than kicking their asses with armed troops.

Bizarroland,
@Bizarroland@kbin.social avatar

I guess we'll just become criminals and host our servers in countries that actually respect freedom.

QubaXR,
@QubaXR@lemmy.world avatar

Somehow it never crossed their minds to stop selling firearms to teens, but vendor Internet in the name of protecting kids? Sign us up. Fuck that.

Pretty much any bill, worldwide, that includes the phrase “project kids” is always about pushing censorship, government surveillance and other forms of oppression on everyone. And guess what: zero actual benefit to kids.

LexiconBexicon,
@LexiconBexicon@lemmynsfw.com avatar

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

Burn_The_Right,

Neoliberals are conservatives. They go on the same smoldering pile.

EnderWi99in, (edited )

Not even close, but try again. They just look the same when you're so far left you need to squint to see anyone to the right of you. There is a massive gap between "neoliberals" as you call them, and the modern conservative electorate. Those "neoliberals" also represent the majority of voters on the left, hence the guy who is president being one of them. Stay mad though.

Burn_The_Right,

You sure know how to use a lot of words to say nothing.

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Even when no cogent thought is formed.

HellAwaits,

Nah they made perfect sense and you responded with “nuh uh”

Stay mad, lib

RobotToaster,

“The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere

Burn_The_Right,

My god that’s brilliant!

EatMyDick3,

Good, we need to protect the Children, we shouldn’t be allowing people to go around grooming kids freely, there needs to be limits on this bullshit.

sour,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

Children

._.

bappity,
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

why is it always the worst laws proposed under the guise of protecting children

jantin,

Because you can’t argue that. Any other ground reason for policy can be challenged or counterargued or relies on values which are arguable.

No one is going to plainly argue “ok but how about we do not protect children?”. And if someone tries a different angle such as “this law is not really going to protect anyone and will bring a lot of problems for children and adults alike” it will be easily dismissed as “you insidious snake, why do you want to hurt children?! Don’t sabotage child protection!”. Which autokills conversation.

iMastari,

Protect kids from guns would be better.

EnderWi99in,

Jack O'Neil's son would still be alive today if he didn't get a hold of his father's gun. But then we wouldn't have Stargate. It's sort of a toss up to me.

Diplomjodler,

This headline could have been written 20 years ago.

throwing_handles,

Hear me out, we have to protect our kids from the dirty jews, let’s make concentration camps to save our PRECIOUS LITTLE KIDS!!

/S /S /S

ProfessorZhu,

Why take a principled stand against those who are pushing this when you can just say “government” and leave everyone thinking this is a bipartisan problem?

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Because it is a bipartisan problem.

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