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

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[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 176 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

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

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

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.

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago

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

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

Blonde and blue eyes only?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 29 points 10 months ago

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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[-] weew@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

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

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[-] VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago

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

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

[-] Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months 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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[-] asteroidnova@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months 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.

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months 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.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 32 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 25 points 10 months ago

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

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months 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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[-] Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

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

[-] asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

This tbh...

They fear what thy don't understand...

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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago
[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Gravel8@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

Because he is an old senile man

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[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months 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

[-] buddhabound@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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

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

[-] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months 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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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

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

[-] BeefDaddySupreme@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

To protect kids from gay priests who are molesting them?

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Heavens, no. To find a way to extract some monetary value out of that.

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[-] the_crab_man@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months 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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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months 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.

[-] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 10 months 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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Not a surprise. That is the intention.

[-] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SirStumps@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] BarterClub@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

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[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 20 points 10 months ago

How about we go after the real threat, churches.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Its not a bug, its a feature.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

This woman is the literal devil...

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