I wish this was a joke but these days I wouldn’t put it past them. I don’t think it would hold up terribly well since the US doesn’t have any form of advanced censorship.
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
texas will probably block us next.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
31337@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
With the current laws on the books, Texas could probably sue Lemmy instances because they contain pornographic content and they don’t verify users’ identity.
fxomt@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Aren’t most Lemmy instances ran in Europe, anyway? At most they’ll just block them, right?
31337@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Dunno, they’d probably have a hard time suing European instances, but they can’t outright block, as that would be unconstitutional. U.S. states have recently been using lawsuits to get around constitutionality. I.e. Texas also has a “bounty” law, where if you know a woman went out of state to get an abortion, you can report it, and the state will sue them and give you $10,000. I think another state has a similar law for if you see a trans person using a restroom that doesn’t match the genitalia they were born with.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
The book bans are currently practice before they start banning more resources such as Wikipedia.
fxomt@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sorry to hear that, hopefully it will turn out all right for trans people in the US.