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Montana’s Governor’s Changes to TikTok Ban Bill Would Ban Social Media
- cyclecount 4y agoIt's been said a hundred times already, but putting unenforceable laws on the books still serves to oppress because these can be used to intimidate or convict "criminals" that have otherwise done nothing wrong. Unequal enforcement of the law reinforces existing class and other social inequalities.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoThere are only very few people that own social platforms. By contrast, a lot more people own US, Russia, China... based businesses on the Internet, and those have been effectively banned in the EU since 2015 for similar reasons, do we have any examples 8 years later of EU law enforcement abusively intimidating business owners from these "rogue" countries ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_I
- andrewstuart 4y agoMaybe the US should invert the law and make everything illegal, with specific things being made legal, like a whitelist.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoYes the prohibition worked out so well - the bootleggers (mafia) then just moved on to drugs.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoThe Utah porn ban - has that been enacted yet ???. Unsurprisingly that state (LDS church influence) is one of the largest Pornhub users - pretty sure savvy folks will just use a VPN and get their kicks.
- client4 4y ago...maybe it's a good thing a state is concerned about the individual privacy rights of their citizens and are willing to take big steps to enforce it.
- halJordan 4y agoYeah maybe, but at this point that's a non sequitor. What does it have to do with the price of tea in China?