Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
What is with the enshitification of everything this last year? Is it because we didn’t actively overthrow the government through the Trump bs? People realize they can actually do whatever they want and 50 ish percent of the country agrees based off of tribalism, 45% just don’t give a shit and the last 5% don’t really matter? They realized we are all cattle. No matter how mad we get, we have no choice in the system we are in. The fucking boomers/gen xers really set themselves up to be a bunch of selfish twats with no real repercussions.
It’s an Oligarchy and a dictatorship under the guise of democracy and freedoms and a majority of people are too busy hating the other 50% of the population yo realize we’re getting fucked and manipulated.
What is with the enshitification of everything this last year? Is it because we didn’t actively overthrow the government through the Trump bs?
Close, it’s because they did it, failed, and (so far) suffered no consequences for doing so. Pretty well signaled that it’s open season for pulling whatever dystopian totalitarian crap you want and the worst that can happen is it won’t work.
What’s with the current rising usage of the word enshittification
Because it’s a good new term to describe something people had been on some level noticing but hadn’t had a word for.
It’s just so accurate at describing what’s going on everywhere
Seems reductive
Same as all the good things turning into shit…
I think this is the guy who coined it but maybe not the article he initially coined the term https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
“Protect the children” only from the things we deem bad. If they are homeless, hungry, live with parents who struggle to put food on the table? “Nah, they need to pull themselves by their bootstraps” I hate the GOP with a burning passion
You are far too charitable to the GOP. They let school shootings happen for the sake of political gain, and they’re actively pushing for child labor and restricting control over your own body.
Any bills labeled “protect the children” is never for protecting children. Same with anything titled “freedom.”
“What if we just call it the other thing? The one people like?”
“… my god.”
They’re just garbage people. I don’t understand why they are so angry and hateful.
It’s all they have. They’ve got anger and hate, and nothing else.
Well that’s not entirely true. A small percentage of them also has way too much stolen/hoarded money.
As it was established by Nixon’s Southern Strategy it’s totally about preserving power (which they use for the highest bidders). Anger and hate keeps their base voting for them.
But their base is fickle, which is now Donald Trump seized the 2016 Republican Primary from everyone else. And while Trump is facing all his indictments and other player like DeSantis vie to take his place, that base will eventually find another Secret Hitler to fall behind.
That’s a mystery that we will forever chase.
Misery mostly. Industrialized hate for profit.
Cult leaders have weaponized this pain for their own power and profit.They lie to people, tell them it’s not their fault, to blame their failures on [insert latest convenient target]. They will fix everything if only they received more [power/money]. They distract from the unacceptable truth that it is their own actions that have led to their misery (including decades voting for same party and policies that “somehow” never helped). The cult is the most important thing in their life now, after cutting out disagreeable family and friends. These poor bastards will be squeezed for all they’re worth.
I’m not sure how miserable, lonely, damaged, mentally ill a person needs to be to be susceptible to this. But apparently we have more than enough to terrorize.
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Reminder they give zero fucks about children. They want to spread fascism to the internet for everyone in the name of children, but they have zero issues with elementary schoolers getting gunned down and legalizing child labor. Party of small government btw.
I think the current system works best
Parents should be responsible for what their kids do online. Parental controls do exist.
This is the most concerning thing I’ve read today. I don’t understand how we’ve reached this point. If people are concerned about the safety of their children then they need to be more attentive parents. This almost reminds me of that time Apple was going to scan everyone’s photos stored in iCloud in the name of “protecting children” but backed down due to public backlash. Except this somehow is codified into law and lays the roadmap out for other states to do the same. Government mandated online verification systems sounds like a cyberpunk fever dream but I guess the US is slowly working it’s way there.
Uhh just to clear up a misunderstanding, Apple and everyone else already scans your photos in the cloud and compares them to a pre-curated hash of known CSAM. What Apple was trying to do was do the scans on-device instead, for photos outbound to Apple’s iCloud. Supposedly, this was to make sure that your photos weren’t directly scanned by Apple themselves.
Sorry my mistake
lol no problem, the way this was reported definitely made it seem like this was something new when it was really not.
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I mean it’s Utah, so…
Edit: it’s not just Utah.
Unfortunately not, KOSA is a Federal Act. TFA talks a lot about what’s going on in Utah before getting to the meat of the issue, that a bi-partisan anti-“online anything to do with sex” law is being rammed through Congress right now. That’s what the title of the article (and this post) is referring to by the “Kids Online Safety Act”. Utah merely passed a prototype law for this.
