Unfortunately, in the long term, special interests are always going to win, because they can just try over and over until it passes. This is always what happens with these bills: Opponents have to fight it and win every time. Proponents only have to win once. So, chances are, the proponents are going to get their way eventually.
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#22The bill in question: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/140...
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#24It's becoming so hard to constantly keep up the fight against a new bill like this year after year. I guess it is part of the point to try and wear people down over time until they eventually run out of the energy to care.
I had not previously heard about this one, but they all sort of run together. Some vague stuff about protecting children which would undoubtedly result in 1) not doing much at all to protect children and 2) actively making the internet worse for everyone.
The fact that this is a bipartisan-introduced bill is even worse news.
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#26Unfortunately, in the long term, special interests are always going to win, because they can just try over and over until it passes. This is always what happens with these bills: Opponents have to fight it and win every time. Proponents only have to win once. So, chances are, the proponents are going to get their way eventually.
This doesn't sound logical to me. I mean, suppose proponents win once. Stupid protections get enacted. But... can't opponents also get bills proposed, and passed?
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#27It seems that the US Government introduces a new bill of this form every few years; SOPA & PIPA, COPPA, CISPA, etc. Will governments (particularly the US government) simply keep attempting this until they get one through?
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#28These types of requirements would be make it damn near impossible for any start-up or non mega-co to abide by due to lack of capital/resources.
I'm actually surprised more big tech firms aren't in favor of these types of bills. Sure, enforcement will cost a lot, but it would also stifle any chance at future competition from smaller orgs.
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#29So man strawman attacks, jumping to conclusions and divisive terms it's hard to take anything on that website serious. > It’s no surprise that anti-rights zealots are excited about KOSA: it would let them shut down websites that cover topics like race, gender, and sexuality. > Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by expanding the use of age verification and parental monitoring tool…
I thought those websites were already shut down after net neutrality ended.
Net Neutrality made it possible to do that, but the motivation was more about advantaging certain businesses to entrench monopolies and scare away newcomers.
Abolishing it was plenty bad, and you look silly making up straw men to whitewash it.
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#30Entire generations have grown up with the unfiltered internet at this point. What good can possibly come from introducing them now?
Entire generations grew up with polio. There are many good arguments against KOSA; this isn’t one of them.
Except it isn't really an argument, so much as a question. In your example, the good created by eliminating polio are blatantly obvious to anyone who knows what polio is. For your analogy to hold, then the answer to the question posed must be equally blatantly obvious. This doesn't seem at all obvious to me, so fails as a rebuttal.