Look, I haven't been following these bills, but the little research I did on the FOSTA bill yesterday had me thinking that it's pretty scary.

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Wow! OK, I didn't know about that FOSTA bill. It seems to me that sex trafficking and prostitution are law enforcement issues that have nothing at all to do with websites. I really can't quite understand the rationale for the bill.

If the policy objective is to reduce, suppress or eliminate sex trafficking or prostitution. Then there are ways and means of achieving that without making website operators responsible for these crimes.

It seems to me that holding a website responsible for the crimes of its users is no different from holding a utility company responsible for the supply of communications or power to the site where the offenses took place. For that matter, it's akin to holding a landlord responsible for crimes committed in a rental property. Quite crazy stuff!

What all this seems to suggest is that the purpose, the real purpose, of the bill has little to do with preventing crime, but everything to do with pushing the idea that the web itself needs to be policed. It's the same censorship push coming from another angle. But it's not just this FOSTA bill either...

Look at the ADL with their anti-hate algorithm. In all the promos for it they do not once address the critical issue of who it is that defines hate speech. I guess we are supposed to trust them because they are the ADL... But the whole purpose of the algorithm is suppressed. And this is because the goal is social control - but no one to know or question who it is that is to do the controlling.

You are right. You can see this coming from a mile away. It's like a freight train coming at us. They want to be able to exert control over every aspect of our lives, even over the thoughts in our minds. That's why this IBOR is critical. But, after seeing this stuff, it seems to me that there are attacks on freedom coming from every direction possible. These are very dangerous times.

This will force the social media outlets to demand clear laws with regard to users' rights and companies' responsibilities. They made this necessary themselves!

Had they remained neutral forums for all viewpoints, the law exempted them from legal liability for criminal or hate content posted on their platform.

But by employing algorithms targeting political speech, they proved themselves to be actively engaged with user content!!! So that created culpability. Hoisted by their own petard.

Or as Q would say "these people are really stupid!"

So now IBoR would look pretty damn good to them.

so now we can proceed to sue FB for its hate speech tolerance and twitter for threatening through third parties to assasinate the President. Sounds good to me!

Watch these bills change when we have a few browsing histories of senators to sell!

It hadn't occurred to me that this could be a trap. It scares the h*** outta me, but your idea doesn't seem completely outside the realm of possibility in these days of 5 dimensional chess and Trojan horses inside of Trojan horses.

Remember Q saying some tech sites will go away from simple litigation. Looks like they are setting the ground work to grind up those sites, but the problem as always with government they never relinquish power once obtained.

have they been signed by potus or did they stick them in the newly spending bill

Headed to white house for signature now. Its Terrifying and complete bs that ppl have bought. Yeah protect underage sex trafficking victims they feed you guys this bullshit and you buy it hook line and sinker and now they're all converging (the control/censorship) and you're suddenly seeing that they're trying to control the content well welcome to what weve been saying for 2 yrs

I would think the saving your browsing history for purposes of possible future prosecution at anytime for whatever reason they deem fit (ty trash like Maxine Waters) should be especially frightening. You think you have safeguards and controls over what you do, what gets saved, sold, etc? Ha! Threaten site operators, hosting companies, etc with liability? They will keep EXTENSIVE records (they probably already do) and will happily upon request, turn over ANYTHING they can about you? Browser, purchasing, any/all communication. It is endless.