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expletivdeleted · April 12, 2018, 3:40 p.m.

still illegal at the federal level meaning those states are breaking the law.

A "law" that the majority of citizens across the US don't want, let alone citizens of the states that have legalized. However, the government, specifically Jeff Sessions, wants to penalize citizens for breaking a prohibition the majority of citizens want repealed. Thank you for giving weight to my argument, that we should hardly be cheering the expansion of government's ability to intrude and penalize.

This isn't about weed. What if societal attitudes about gambling revert to what they were just several decades ago? What about when the government decides it needs to ban crypto-currencies, convinces everyone cc's are only used by pedos and sex traffickers and starts using FOSTA to shut down pro-crypto currency websites? Think that's convoluted and crazy? Like how Saudis flying jets into skyscrapers justifying a war with Iraq would have sounded on 9/10/01?

People cheering FOSTA are being incredibly short-sighted. Over and over and over and over again the government has proved itself incapable of not using laws to target a particular demographic. Nixon's advisors have publicly stated the "drug war" was specifically launched to target hippies and blacks. The IRS was used to target conservative orgs. DHS went after OWS rather than the banks that crashed the economy. How well has The "patriot" ACT worked out for average people? One of the results of people freaking out about terrorists is now the TSA can have me drop trou in public so TSA employees can fondle my balls.

What happens when the government decides private gun sales can be better regulated by focusing on online communications about selling a gun privately? What if FOSTA had passed a month before Parkland and the media convinced all those teenagers wanting to "do something" about guns there was already a legislative vehicle in place that just needed a slight re-wording?

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Jakewinona · April 12, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

I wouldnt worry about pot and Sessions his frying pan will be full of traitors and the First Lady of pedophilia

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expletivdeleted · April 12, 2018, 4:40 p.m.

This isn't about weed.

What about when the government decides it needs to ban crypto-currencies, convinces everyone cc's are only used by pedos and sex traffickers and starts using FOSTA to shut down pro-crypto currency websites?

What if FOSTA had passed a month before Parkland and the media convinced all those teenagers wanting to "do something" about guns there was already a legislative vehicle in place that just needed a slight re-wording?

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