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

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

Republican supporters won’t wake up to this until they start coming after the stupid and obese.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

White people are just further down the list of easy targets. At that point they'll start by hair color and nitpick their way down from there.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blonde and blue eyes only?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As long as they don't have any lefty thoughts. Don't forget that the Nazis also put unionists, socialists and communists in camps.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

the bar for what counts as stupid enough will continue to lower, though.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (9 children)

"The bill – endorsed by president Joe Biden..."

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

This IS Biden. He's always been a pretty bad human person. The only silver lining is that he's been better than most recently. He's a center-right politician just like most Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it protecting children? Claims need evidence and rules need tests. Until we do that its fear-based, exploitable control for the sake of control.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Government doesn't run on the scientific method, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's the problem with legislation like this. You'll have proponents claim it protects children without actually explaining how.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This tbh...

They fear what thy don't understand...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Are you not at all familiar with the man and his political history?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Because he is an old senile man

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

...and my mind is stronger than a child's...

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

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To protect kids from gay priests who are molesting them?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Not a surprise. That is the intention.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

How about we go after the real threat, churches.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Its not a bug, its a feature.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This woman is the literal devil...

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