“online safety”
The fact this is a bipartison bill should have everyone concerned, and figuring out who exactly is supporting this bill, and when is their relelection coming up.
It’s a very poor attempt by people who don’t know how to use the technology to regulate it. Ask anyone who actually knows how to ever restart their Wi-Fi how they would protect “the kids” and they can come up with better ideas
One more reason we would do better with specialists for each field being responsible for the laws regarding said field, with some kind of synthesist organizing. It doesn’t have to be a technocracy, we could do it democratically, but we can’t keep going with these 70 year old politicians trying to make laws for things they can even define let alone understand.
The least they could do is bring back the Office of Technology Assessment to help them understand things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment
Thing is, I think they understand it well enough. This is never, ever about safety and is 100% always about control. They continue to push these bills because they want to chill anonymous speech and destroy privacy protections and they’ll keep doing so until they get their way or are voted out.
I think Hanlons razor is apt here: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Here’s a simple idea, require all sites that kids access to have a second email address that gives access to chat logs, so that concerned parents can know what their kids get up to, and smart kids can route around the issue.
The challenge there is that in situations with abusive parents the kid is in even more danger.
Smart kids just sign up with two of their own email addresses, but yeah, abusive controlling parents will always be an issue. They’re an issue without the internet. Adding internet to it doesn’t turn non-abusive people into assholes, it just lets them attack their children from a new angle.
What I’m saying is, you cannot fix abusive parents without using CPS. The real answer to abuse is giving kids more tools to report it.
Right, but if a young child is unaware of this and they reach out for help on a monitored platform they’re gonna find themselves in an even worse situation.
Party of small government people…
Also, parents need to understand technology better than their children. Parental controls are easy to set up and manage on all devices. Dont ruin the internet for everyone because you can’t take the time to parent.
Don’t say “Congress”. Say “Republicans”.
The bipartisan bill is also supported by the right-wing Heritage Foundation
Vice, you keep saying “bipartisan”, but then you don’t prove your point with left-wing groups that are supporting it.
Generally meaning all republicans and one democrat.
One Democrat currently flirting with going “independent”.
Plenty of Democrats support this anti-LGBTQ+ bill – here’s the list of cosponsors. It really does have bipartisan support!
Shhh, you’re spoiling the narrative.
Lying snake politicians: THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
Kids (on YouTube kids): hahaaaa uggy wuggy an freddie fezber go BRRRRRRRRRRRR
Nothing with Marsha Blackburn involved is to benefit good and decent people.
It’s plain retarded that this is being news like this. It’s a law to control content on the internet and can be used to censor pretty much anything they think it’s not good for children.
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It’s America. So it depends on the issue. Do you want guns? It’s Democrats. Do you want medicine, free speech, freedom from religion, the government to stay out of your bedroom, to be allowed to dress how you’d like… then it’s the republicans.
I have trouble saying the Democrats are overall authoritarian around guns, at least in terms of what’s getting proposed in the government as bills etc. Unless you count the current sort of rules around driving authoritarian in the states - because most of the proposed rules are similar to driving rules.
And both parties are functionally authoritarian around medicine - it’s regulated to heck and back, often to the detriment of people, though I can’t say if the balance is saving more than it’s harming.
Fair, but the democrats aren’t like banning modern medicine and driving obgyns and endocrinologists out of states. Yeah both insist on regulating medicine, but one wants abortion to be legal and bleach to not be medicine and the other disagrees on both points
