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The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

“All lawmakers will claim that they are [enacting age verification] to protect youth from some harm, but they fail to mention the convenient power it hands to government to control and chill speech they oppose, and even punish their critics.”

Yup!

Don't ask why - ask, why not?

LOL

If only there was a federal law defining this

JFC I sat through it!

Ya think??????

RIP Jesse Jackson

Until they can't

"the average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find that the depiction of sexually explicit nudity-of, sexual activity, or use of profane language in the material or performance, or any_portion of the material or performance, is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community concerning what is suitable for minors; and (c) to a reasonable person, the material or performance taken as a whole, or any portion of the material or performance, lacks serious-literary, artistie, politieal, of scientific value for minors. (2) "Material" means pictures, drawings, video recordings, films, digital electronic files, words,-gestures, computer-generated images or pictures, or other visuat depictions or representations but not material consisting entirely of written words. (3) "Minor" means an individual who is less than eighteen years old. (4) "Profane language" means language or gestures communicated in any form or manner that, in context, depict or describe sexual or excretory organs or activities in terms patently offensive as measured by _contemporary_community standards.

And ... South Carolina has introduced a bill that would criminalize South Park.

S919 bill adds "profane" speech, including excretory functions, to its "harmful to minors" law. A felony for toilet humor.

www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025...

JFC, we're all gonna live like monks in a monastery

Considering the controversy, I find it funny af!

LOL

Ooomph

On Section 230’s 30th Birthday, A Look Back At Why It’s Such A Good Law And Why Messing With It Would Be Bad

This past weekend Section 230 turned 30 years old. In those 30 years it has proven to be a marvelous yet misunderstood law, often gravely, as too many, including in Congress and the courts,…

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

If people did that, there might be a lot less ICE agents running around. I can think of a few good ingredients to add to the meals

LOL

RFK took the pages out of your cat's playbook

I can't stop laughing!

[Allowing] “serious artistic significance” [to] be determined by politicians…is a bit like asking a panel of tone-deaf 11-year-olds to discuss the relative merits of Bach cantatas. maggiemcneill.com/2023/01/28/i...

Yup

Cop AND preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house: maggiemcneill.com/2026/01/24/i...

AUSTIN!

ICE has booked a block of rooms at the Hyatt Regency (Congress/Barton Springs) for the next two weeks. This is being reliably reported on by a few folks, including Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.

You know what to do.

We gotta abolish Border Patrol too

Hahahahaha Fled Cruise

How the world see the U.S.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

It was inevitable.