Truman, previously held senior roles at SPLC-designated hate groups including the American Family Association, Family Research Council, and Americans United for Life. Back then they were a bit more forthcoming about what they believe, for example that gay marriage causes mass shootings. You may remember the group from their previous incarnation as "Morality in Media. The intentionally official sounding National Center on Sexual Exploitation, for example, which portrays itself as a nonpartisan nonprofit working to end human trafficking, are major backers of legislation like the EARN IT Act. Some of the main characters in the modern internet holy wars are no strangers to the fight. In the end, whether they’re well-intentioned or blatantly fascist, censorship bills are premised on the false odea that we protect young people by shielding their eyes and stopping them from learning about the world, rather than by arming them with information, access to community, and the freedom to express themselves. It was part of the same holy war as abstinence-only sex education and obscenity laws, but for the internet. But it was most firmly rooted in right wing Christian evangelism. That movement was adjacent to Tipper Gore’s crusade against metal and rap music, and not unrelated to the post-Columbine evidenceless panic about violence in video games. The “think of the children” push to control what we can see and do online was already raging way back when I was a teenager on the internet in the late 1990s. Substantively, these bills range from requiring government backdoors in encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal, to forcing social media platforms to filter out content the government deems “harmful.” But they’re all more or less being marketed the same way: we have to pass them to protect the kids. Human rights advocates are bracing for an onslaught of Bad Internet Bills, as we’ve dubbed them, that lawmakers from both parties will be trying to ram through or quietly tack on to broader spending packages in the final hours. While billions for missiles and tanks are more or less a given, lawmakers will negotiate over which other legislative ornaments to hang on these anti-democratic “Christmas tree” bills. This sad truth will be on display in coming weeks as Congress debates the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and other “must-pass” spending measures. are funding endless war and censoring the internet. The two most bipartisan issues in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joseph Gruber The unholy alliance in Congress that wants to censor the Internet You just magically rob them of a few years of assumed innocence and then it’s basically like whatever." Even now we promote children into adults through the power of bureaucratic transubstantiation and that is because you can treat them worse after that. "There are only two things most of us know for sure if we are lucky which are our birthdays and our names but we’ve long taken even those away from people who we decide don’t deserve them. I probably already shared this one but I forget and it doesn't matter. (Although not so fast there Americans because our people do it all the time when it comes to Black children and migrants at the border as well.)Īnyway I wrote about that sort of thing in one of the stories in A Creature Wanting Form. This thing much of the media and many supporters of Israel's genocidal campaign have been doing – sometimes contradicting themselves within the same sentence – where Israelis are granted the innocence of childhood and Palestinians are referred to as "children" or young men under 18 or presumed as combatants etc is so fucking sickening man. "The hostages to be freed are women and children, and the Palestinian prisoners are also women and people aged 18 and younger," the Guardian wrote of the so-called ceasefire and hostage exchange going on today. These drones are usually over Gazans heads 24/7 with a traumatic noise getting loudest at night /UWZA1cOaNZ- Muhammad Shehada November 24, 2023 & look at the immense happiness on this child's face Today is the 1st time in 17 YEARS (you read that right) that Gaza's skies are free of Israeli predator drones, albeit temporarily
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