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Just in case you don't see what the actual play is: 1. Pass an act that requires verification for sexual content not appropriate for kids. 2. Define everythin
by Spivak 3y ago
Just in case you don't see what the actual play is:
1. Pass an act that requires verification for sexual content not appropriate for kids.
2. Define everything relating to the LGBT as sexual content.
3. Define ideas they don't like as too dangerous to expose to children.
4. Argue that this isn't an ban because the content is technically accessible.
Like they're not even bothering to hide it anymore.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/senator-appears-suggest-bipartisan-bill-will-censor-transgender-conten-rcna103479 https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/sena...
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2021/7/why-is-critical-race-theory-dangerous-for-our-kids https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2021/7/why-is-critical-race...
Unless there's some part of the amendment I'm missing they haven't really done anything to mitigate this despite the blogspam that says otherwise. Removing the ability of states to decide what isn't age appropriate isn't nothing but it's not like leaving it to the federal government is doing meaningfully better. With the state control one can at least move to a blue state, putting it in the hands of the FTC means it's basically at the whim of $current_president.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y ago> 2. Define everything relating to the LGBT as sexual content. Just to be crystal-clear, this particular step is not so much a prediction as it is a recollection. While the intensity has been tapering off for decades at an agonizingly slow rate, the entire history of Internet content filtering is deeply intertwined with the ideological bugbears of the American religious right. Even Cloudflare in A.D. 2020 botched the "1.1.1.1 for Families" launch by accidentally pulling the homophobic flavor of its upstream vendor's "adult content" database [1]. Unless you've been paying close attention for the past ~30 years, the rot runs deeper than you can imagine. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-that-caused-1-1-1-3-to-block-lgbtqia-sites-today/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-mistake-that-caused-1-1-1-3-...
- anaisbetts 3y agoNot even a recollection or prediction - an explicit statement by Sen. Blackburn.
- t0bia_s 3y agoIf you use term like homophobic, others could consider you as homofilic.
- talldatethrow 3y agoThank you. Even as a child, maybe because Im an immigrant and learned English in grade school, I was annoyed by the term homophobic. I remember saying a "joke" back around middle school days that I'm not afraid of gay people, I just don't like them. As an adult now, I don't really care, but just like Ive grown to dislike people that sleep around casually (even though I was one of them from 18-35), I also don't really like the idea of gay hookup culture. Since that seems a lot more popular in the male gay community (I don't know about women), I also generalize that I don't like the popular gay culture either. If liberals/leftists can talk constantly how they don't like trump supporters or conservatives, and even talk down their intelligence levels, I don't see why I'm not allowed to not like someone who believes and does things I don't like. Calling people like me homophobic doesn't really resonate to me and basically makes me ignore anything beyond that.
- t0bia_s 3y agoUsing disparaging labeling shows lack of arguments and usually used by those who are scared.
- anaisbetts 3y agoHit the nail on the head. This is a bald-faced attempt to suppress LGBTQ people from public life - even the possibility that content could fall under KOSA will make studios / businesses deem Queer content or characters to be "too legally risky" and refuse to publish it