The regime is illegitimate. The appointments are illegal. The Republican Congress majority is illegitimate. The 2024 election data reported is inaccurate and its sole purpose is to divide the US.
Americans are better than this. They voted for her. The regime is on a vindictive campaign because Americans rejected the Republicans at the polls!
We need to have this conversation.
The election results are off. Too many down ballot Democrats won in states Trump eeked out victories. Too many bullet ballots with just a Trump vote and no other down ballot votes.
Also, Congress is bypassing procedure to hand Trump unconstitutional power. Republicans are replacing powers given elected offices so that Trump appointees can run the government.
Something terrifying about the way censorship is just straight up happening right now and they’re barely trying to pretend that isn’t what it is. The UK rolling out the Online Safety Act which forces anyone accessing ‘adult’ content (including discord, LGBT+ forums, various resources for drug addicts etc.) to share their face and ID with American third party companies, and refusing to debate a repeal in parliament despite 300,000 signatures on their own website to do so. Something fishy going on with Google docs suddenly deleting/restricting content. Itchio and Steam suddenly deleting 18+ games including both porn games and horror games at the behest of Mastercard.
Like. Truly in the past month the censorship is hitting like a truck and we’re all just supposed to be fine with it. Like. It’s genuinely making me feel sick.
Being nice to someone you don’t like is not manipulation btw it’s being civil
Mmm no, this is like seeking validation. Ofc it’s best to be nice but if I don’t like you or we both dislike eachother, then there’s no reason for us to communicate or be around eachother. It’s not about being immature, I would much rather not put myself in such a situation.
they are barring wikipedia. they are barring spotify. they are barring important news - both national news and world news. they are barring mental health forums and LGBTQ related things and so much more. this is not about protecting children, it has never been about protecting children.
the online safety act is an insane privacy breach, and if that does not scare you then you need to think harder about it. it is going to end up in a massive data leak - all the information is getting collected by random third party systems. can we trust them? no. can we even hold them accountable? no. because the government couldn’t even make their own system to do these age checks.
and i hear you - it is important that kids don’t see porn. but even if all this was about protecting kids, it’s sloppy and useless. it’s easy (for now) to get around with a vpn and the only thing the act doing is censoring things that it shouldnt. if the government wanted to protect kids, they would do something concrete about it - they would be putting more funding into education, for example.
of course the policy isnt called “national surveillance”. they’re not going to call it that. everything will be hidden behind things that people want.
so email your MP, and tell other people that this is WAY more than blocking porn from children - this is the first step towards national surveillance.
If you feel the same as this rat about the Online Safety Act in the UK, you should have a look at online petitions such as this one, and contact your local MP.
