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Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by raverbashing »

ollo wrote: post #46
mschuster91 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. To be fair, us Europeans have the same issues with our politicians, with the exception of socialists, communists and Greens. Just look for the article13 fiasco. We're all being fucked.

The socialists voted in favour of Article 13.

S&D was 50/50 more or less (other left-wing groups had less pro votes) https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8wayjf/infographic_...

So, not really.

Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by gabrielfv »

ollo wrote: post #48
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, nsa mass surveillance and legalized torture were never repelled by any side. In fact, the patriot act has been prolongued 5 times, no matter the administration, and is still in effect. As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. Fighting for either seems so futile from here. Of course, we have similar problems as well so I'm not going to pretend I have a solution.

> As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. As a european, I don't see any party that actually have european people's interest in mind.

> As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind.

As a human, I don't see any party that actually have regular people's interest in mind.

Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by granitDev »

plokiju21 wrote: post #56
blisterpeanuts wrote: post #37

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There are already extraordinary chilling effects on speech -- try criticizing Black Lives Matter on any major social media, for example, and you will likely be censored, doxxed, and even receive death threats. Up until now, major social media (FB, Twitter, Youtube etc.) have been free to suppress conservative voices in the name of opposing racism and white supremacists. The tech platforms have been shielded from laws…

So imagine 230 is repealed. Facebook can now be sued for what crazy people say on their platform. Do you think this will be better or worse for free speech on the internet?

For how much free speech is suppressed by social media? It could only get better, because the one sided free for all isn't doing anyone any good.

Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by didip »

blintz wrote: post #3

I cannot believe that the one thing we have bipartisan consensus on is destroying strong encryption. I guess I’m biased since this is essentially my whole livelihood, but this is crazy, right?

It's not crazy. The class war between the super rich and everybody else has been happening forever. It just becomes more blatant now.

Not sure what is the solution here, the popular people's choice couldn't even get elected.

Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by granitDev »

cevn wrote: post #58
annoyingnoob wrote: post #28

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Been working on that last one for years. At least I'm likely to out live her.

I believe you. I've never understood how she garners so much support in progressive Cali of all places.

She's got money and power and a D in front of her name, she'll get voted in every time in California. Vote Blue no matter who, remember?

Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by lukifer »

thayne wrote: post #72
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, nsa mass surveillance and legalized torture were never repelled by any side. In fact, the patriot act has been prolongued 5 times, no matter the administration, and is still in effect. As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. Fighting for either seems so futile from here. Of course, we have similar problems as well so I'm not going to pretend I have a solution.

> As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. As an American, I don't see any party that has my interests in mind. Elections always seem to be having to choose the lesser of two evils.

Obligatory plug for electoral reform. Lesser evils aren't inevitable; they're a product of a bad voting system.

https://www.fairvote.org/rcv

https://www.fairvote.org/alternatives

Maine has converted to RCV already and it's stood up in court; 49 to go.

Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by techntoke »

thayne wrote: post #72
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, nsa mass surveillance and legalized torture were never repelled by any side. In fact, the patriot act has been prolongued 5 times, no matter the administration, and is still in effect. As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. Fighting for either seems so futile from here. Of course, we have similar problems as well so I'm not going to pretend I have a solution.

> As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. As an American, I don't see any party that has my interests in mind. Elections always seem to be having to choose the lesser of two evils.

I'm pretty sure it is designed that way on purpose. Nothing will ever change as long as both sides are fighting each other and no one is willing to fight the system.

Re: Oppose the Earn IT Act

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Post by choppaface »

qppo wrote: post #40

To Californians, Dianne Feinstein is one of the cosponsors of the bill in the Senate. It really grinds my gears seeing our senior leadership from California take actions that directly harm our interests, both towards our peoples' freedom and our businesses. I feel vindicated for voting against her in 2018, because I thought she'd be out of touch with our interests as a state.

Send her an e-mail in 2 minutes telling her to stop supporting EARN-IT https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
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