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Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other red U.S. states. You have an age verification proposal that is similar…

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[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago

It used to be that pushing positions based on morality was taboo on both the left and the right. Then the social left started pushing things that it wanted purely because of morals and the much larger, much better organized religious right realized there'd be no significant political pushback for doing so with things they've wanted.

In the past the religious right in the US had been kept in check by the fiscal conservative and neocon wings of the party. But after Trump, those wings no longer have the control they had before.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Then the social left started pushing things that it wanted purely because of morals

Example?

[-] sickmatter@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

Human rights mostly.

[-] violetraven 1 points 2 years ago

What things did the "social left" want and what time period was this?

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