How did this pass 409-2?!
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Submitted 5 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/congress-moving-forward-on-unconstitutional-take-it-down-act/
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pglpm@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I don’t understand why they keep saying “the Trump admin is doing this”, “the Trump admin is doing that”, and so on. It isn’t the Trump admin: it’s the majority of USA citizens that’s doing this and that. They voted it. They’re the first responsible and guilty. Each one of that majority.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 5 days ago
I said most of what I wanted to say in this comment, but I’d like to take an extra moment here to point out that you are currently making apologia for fascism.
Putting it bluntly, I don’t give a flying fuck how many people voted for Trump – which wasn’t the majority, by the way, since not everyone votes – there is no amount of votes that makes “doing fascism” okay.
AckPhttt@beehaw.org 4 days ago
which wasn’t the majority, by the way, since not everyone votes
Um, even among the people who cast a vote for President in 2024, Trump didn’t get a majority of the votes. He got fewer than half of the Presidential votes: en.wikipedia.org/…/2024_United_States_presidentia…
The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Don’t look at me. I voted for the Green party. The Dems and GOP are a single party masquerading as two as far as I’m concerned. The Corporatist Party.
termus@beehaw.org 5 days ago
I voted for Jill Stein in 2012. Then I realized she’s just as much of a grifter as the others. Also why was she at a dinner with Putin and Mike Flynn?
sculd@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Exactly, if they voted for this, they deserve this.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 5 days ago
I’m so sick and tired of this gleeful throw-people-under-the-bus attitude that effectively dehumanizes people because they “voted wrong,” as if there aren’t millions of people among Trump’s voterbase who were effectively tricked by an entire network of con-men and grifters. As if there isn’t a giant oil-baron-funded media machine working tirelessly to convince people of a smorgasbord of lies.
I find it disgusting how easily you and others with similar takes will cheer on the suffering of your fellows. And let the Republican Party off scot-free in the process. Because apparently blaming a bunch of people who – let’s be real – by-and-large don’t pay attention to politics is apparently more important than blaming the people who’re deliberately engineering mass suffering. Not to mention how you’re currently partaking in schadenfreude over a problem that’s affecting many people you ostensibly agree with and care about! Everybody in America has to deal with the consequences of this bill!
Nobody in the U.S. voted for censorship or for fascism, save an extraordinarily scant few terrible, terrible people. If you decide that vast swathes of people “deserve this” all because of that few, I don’t think you ever actually wanted to help anyone so much as you wanted an excuse not to have to care.
Melody@lemmy.one 4 days ago
Unfortunately this law is unconstitutional as ever. This is nothing more than a scare tactic; as it should not survive a true challenge in the SCOTUS. If it does survive such a challenge; burn them all, congress and all.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Hey yeah can anyone fucking explain to me why AOC and Rashida Tlaib voted yes on this dogshit?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
The worst bills in Congress are usually overwhelmingly supported by both parties.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 5 days ago
The thing is, AOC herself spoke out against this bill according to this article. And I really, really want her to explain this one, as much as I do not expect that she will.
I don’t know how in the world I’m expected to have any faith whatsoever in our governance at any level when even our ostensibly most progressive voices aren’t willing to block blatant garbage like this.