Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don’t like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president’s desk.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
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      Politicians are still too afraid of optics, they don’t want to be on record as voting against taking down revenge porn. Too many of these bills are written with a good-sounding premise but the details are where they get you.

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        Yet they are happy to hand the criminal who is actively shooting people another loaded weapon because “optics”.

        They are the kind of people that say you should stay with a partner that rapes and abuses you because it might make family gatherings weird if you complain.
        Fuck those people.