but it never mentions tiktok.
This is a good explanation:
(Basically Farcebook, Gaggle, etc. are buying this control bill.)
On March 23, CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress, where he was grilled with ignorant and McCarthyite questions. The hearing served as the latest front in the New Cold War against China as Congress seeks to ban TikTok. Amanda Yee, an editor of Liberation News, explains how the hearing fits into Silicon Valley competition and the New Cold War against China.
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
When the established authorities make up bullshit stories to explain bullshit policies that harm the population, they need to shut up the opposition. They have been doing that through proxies as Taibbi reveals. Now they are about to cut out the middleman.
Welcome to the end of civilization as we used to know it.
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I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
I expect it to pass.
Maybe the use of internet will be reduced to birth, death, and wedding announcements, with spell check.Beyond that, at your own risk.
The democracy experiment results is a pukey results.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
@on the cusp
Why wouldn't it pass? Who in the sitting Congress will invite the shitrain of retribution from the criminals who are in the process of putting a final stop to the dream of "consent of the governed"
as a requirement for "legitimacy."
I expect it to pass.
Maybe the use of internet will be reduced to birth, death, and wedding announcements, with spell check.Beyond that, at your own risk.
The democracy experiment results is a pukey results.
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I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
am doing the usual useless thing of leaving messages with the interns at my various "representatives" offices. I doubt that it will make a difference, but it is the only preemptive mechanism we really seem to have these days. It is better than doing nothing, anyway.
#4 Why wouldn't it pass? Who in the sitting Congress will invite the shitrain of retribution from the criminals who are in the process of putting a final stop to the dream of "consent of the governed"
as a requirement for "legitimacy."
@usefewersyllables
What might actually work is if several million people were to visit our representatives in person to sort this out. That explains the farcical affair of January 6, 2021 and subsequent legal hijinx. Petitioning the Congress is now a crime.
am doing the usual useless thing of leaving messages with the interns at my various "representatives" offices. I doubt that it will make a difference, but it is the only preemptive mechanism we really seem to have these days. It is better than doing nothing, anyway.
I'm not going to travel from CO to DC just to get turned away. And when these assholes show up back in the state they all go into double-secret hiding, so you'll certainly never see them here. But the interns *should* let them know if a lot of mail and calls show up on a topic- so that's the only knob we have, since money and votes won't really do it any more.
Here's what I sent via emails: all readers here should feel free to steal, edit, and do whatever they wish with it.
The RESTRICT act is an ABOMINATION.
This poorly written and overbroad act is a shining example of the worst possible kind of lawmaking. It will achieve the exact opposite of what it is purported to "protect": it will achieve the final removal of all privacy and free speech rights in the digital domain.
It CANNOT be allowed to pass. You need to do everything in your power to stop it, and to preserve the few rights remaining to your constituents.
We, your constituents, have to count on you to actually pay attention to these very real threats against our rights. And we vote accordingly.
#4.1.1
What might actually work is if several million people were to visit our representatives in person to sort this out. That explains the farcical affair of January 6, 2021 and subsequent legal hijinx. Petitioning the Congress is now a crime.
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They call it the anti-tictok act...
but it never mentions tiktok.
This is a good explanation:
(Basically Farcebook, Gaggle, etc. are buying this control bill.)
On March 23, CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress, where he was grilled with ignorant and McCarthyite questions. The hearing served as the latest front in the New Cold War against China as Congress seeks to ban TikTok. Amanda Yee, an editor of Liberation News, explains how the hearing fits into Silicon Valley competition and the New Cold War against China.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
My job requires VPN
So if for some reason my company is accused of some wrong doing, I can go to jail? Violent crimes get less jail time.
This is the logical extension of the covid and Ukraine crusades
When the established authorities make up bullshit stories to explain bullshit policies that harm the population, they need to shut up the opposition. They have been doing that through proxies as Taibbi reveals. Now they are about to cut out the middleman.
Welcome to the end of civilization as we used to know it.
I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
Depressing.
I expect it to pass.
Maybe the use of internet will be reduced to birth, death, and wedding announcements, with spell check.Beyond that, at your own risk.
The democracy experiment results is a pukey results.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Agreed
Why wouldn't it pass? Who in the sitting Congress will invite the shitrain of retribution from the criminals who are in the process of putting a final stop to the dream of "consent of the governed"
as a requirement for "legitimacy."
I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
Well, I for one
am doing the usual useless thing of leaving messages with the interns at my various "representatives" offices. I doubt that it will make a difference, but it is the only preemptive mechanism we really seem to have these days. It is better than doing nothing, anyway.
https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/addr/
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Agreed again
What might actually work is if several million people were to visit our representatives in person to sort this out. That explains the farcical affair of January 6, 2021 and subsequent legal hijinx. Petitioning the Congress is now a crime.
I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
All of the above.
I'm not going to travel from CO to DC just to get turned away. And when these assholes show up back in the state they all go into double-secret hiding, so you'll certainly never see them here. But the interns *should* let them know if a lot of mail and calls show up on a topic- so that's the only knob we have, since money and votes won't really do it any more.
Here's what I sent via emails: all readers here should feel free to steal, edit, and do whatever they wish with it.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.