What a stupid plan
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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Good, let’s keep it dead globally. This is never going to end well for anyone from any political side if this kind of thing gets implemented.
Greedy politicians will unfortunately continue the onslaught of these laws, until their plans are fulfilled.
The children they said, the children - All just a big wrapper for destruction of society by big greed.
Until 6 months from now
The problem is that we keep seeing these kinds of laws come back. Just look at chat control.
We're celebrating too soon.
Looks like a law (SB 976) requiring ID verification for social media is heading to Newsom to be signed into law (but hopefully will get shut down?).
The exact kind of verification required isn't explicitly stated in the bill and would be up to Rob Bonta (CA Attorney General) to decide.
Of course Bonta uses the classic "think of the children, approach":
Bonta, on the other hand, encourages the public to think of the welfare of children at risk from social media addiction.
California government gets it right way more often than wrong, since it went solidly Democrat. Not perfect, nothing can be, but leaning towards the correct direction. Here it is again.
They get right everything that is not pro-tech billionaires. All of that they miss 100% of time.
California’s biggest blind spots are its biggest industries. But it still often does better than other states with these.
cuts to California police
We're not Texas!
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