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How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk (www.platformer.news)

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Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance

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[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is with the enshitification of everything this last year? Is it because we didn't actively overthrow the government through the Trump bs? People realize they can actually do whatever they want and 50 ish percent of the country agrees based off of tribalism, 45% just don't give a shit and the last 5% don't really matter? They realized we are all cattle. No matter how mad we get, we have no choice in the system we are in. The fucking boomers/gen xers really set themselves up to be a bunch of selfish twats with no real repercussions.

It's an Oligarchy and a dictatorship under the guise of democracy and freedoms and a majority of people are too busy hating the other 50% of the population yo realize we're getting fucked and manipulated.

[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

What is with the enshitification of everything this last year? Is it because we didn’t actively overthrow the government through the Trump bs?

Close, it's because they did it, failed, and (so far) suffered no consequences for doing so. Pretty well signaled that it's open season for pulling whatever dystopian totalitarian crap you want and the worst that can happen is it won't work.

[-] donut4ever@lemm.ee 71 points 1 year ago

"Protect the children" only from the things we deem bad. If they are homeless, hungry, live with parents who struggle to put food on the table? "Nah, they need to pull themselves by their bootstraps" I hate the GOP with a burning passion

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

You are far too charitable to the GOP. They let school shootings happen for the sake of political gain, and they're actively pushing for child labor and restricting control over your own body.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 year ago

Any bills labeled "protect the children" is never for protecting children. Same with anything titled "freedom."

[-] wagesj45@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

"What if we just call it the other thing? The one people like?"

"... my god."

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

They're just garbage people. I don't understand why they are so angry and hateful.

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It’s all they have. They’ve got anger and hate, and nothing else.

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Well that's not entirely true. A small percentage of them also has way too much stolen/hoarded money.

[-] uriel238 8 points 1 year ago

As it was established by Nixon's Southern Strategy it's totally about preserving power (which they use for the highest bidders). Anger and hate keeps their base voting for them.

But their base is fickle, which is now Donald Trump seized the 2016 Republican Primary from everyone else. And while Trump is facing all his indictments and other player like DeSantis vie to take his place, that base will eventually find another Secret Hitler to fall behind.

[-] donut4ever@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That's a mystery that we will forever chase.

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Misery mostly. Industrialized hate for profit.

Cult leaders have weaponized this pain for their own power and profit.They lie to people, tell them it's not their fault, to blame their failures on [insert latest convenient target]. They will fix everything if only they received more [power/money]. They distract from the unacceptable truth that it is their own actions that have led to their misery (including decades voting for same party and policies that "somehow" never helped). The cult is the most important thing in their life now, after cutting out disagreeable family and friends. These poor bastards will be squeezed for all they're worth.

I'm not sure how miserable, lonely, damaged, mentally ill a person needs to be to be susceptible to this. But apparently we have more than enough to terrorize.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

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[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminder they give zero fucks about children. They want to spread fascism to the internet for everyone in the name of children, but they have zero issues with elementary schoolers getting gunned down and legalizing child labor. Party of small government btw.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I think the current system works best

Parents should be responsible for what their kids do online. Parental controls do exist.

[-] sircashews@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is the most concerning thing I’ve read today. I don’t understand how we’ve reached this point. If people are concerned about the safety of their children then they need to be more attentive parents. This almost reminds me of that time Apple was going to scan everyone’s photos stored in iCloud in the name of “protecting children” but backed down due to public backlash. Except this somehow is codified into law and lays the roadmap out for other states to do the same. Government mandated online verification systems sounds like a cyberpunk fever dream but I guess the US is slowly working it’s way there.

[-] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Uhh just to clear up a misunderstanding, Apple and everyone else already scans your photos in the cloud and compares them to a pre-curated hash of known CSAM. What Apple was trying to do was do the scans on-device instead, for photos outbound to Apple’s iCloud. Supposedly, this was to make sure that your photos weren’t directly scanned by Apple themselves.

[-] sircashews@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry my mistake

[-] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

lol no problem, the way this was reported definitely made it seem like this was something new when it was really not.

[-] objectionist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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