Remember those Tik Tok kids?

By now you've heard about that Texas abortion law, and the despicable clause regarding the $10,000 bounty for finking on a neighbor.
Hopefully you also remember the Trump rally in Tulsa last year that the kids on Tik Tok pranked.

What do those two things have to do with each other?
I'll give you one guess.

The law makes it illegal to help women in Texas access abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy. To help enforce it, anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life established the digital tipline where people can send anonymous information about potential violations.

“Any Texan can bring a lawsuit against an abortionist or someone aiding and abetting an abortion after six weeks,” the website reads, and those proved to be violating the law can be fined a minimum of $10,000. An online form allows anyone to submit an anonymous “report” of someone illegally obtaining an abortion, including a section where images can be uploaded for proof.
Prior to the supreme court’s decision in Texas, Roe v Wade stopped laws that banned abortion before a fetus is viable outside the womb, generally regarded as 24 weeks.

But pro-choice users had other ideas, bombarding the site with false reports and fabricated data through a campaign primarily organized on Reddit and TikTok.

Though the site was launched a month ago, the fake reports came flooding in on the eve of the bill’s enactment. One TikTok user said they had submitted 742 fake reports of the governor, Greg Abbott, getting illegal abortions.
...An activist who goes by the name Sean Black said he programmed a script to submit reports en masse on the website automatically.

He said his data shows nearly 8,000 people have used the Python code and 9,000 have used the iOS shortcut. Others have been inspired by his coding against anti-abortion advocates, saying collaborators across the US are working with him on 10 “active branches” of new features in the tool.

Isn't that a darn shame. All of those kids feeding their web site for snitching bad info.
The good news is that you can't mess with Texas, because they were ready.

Still, Kimberlyn Schwartz, director of media and communication for Texas Right to Life, told USA Today that those trying to crash the site have failed. Her organization "completely anticipated this and were prepared for all the trolls coming to the website," she said.

While the whistleblower site has since required filling out a captcha before submitting tips, Black assured Vice's Motherboard that he is currently working on overcoming that "hurdle."

They were so "ready" for it that they only rolled out the captcha after the Tik Tok kids overwhelmed it. Good luck to Texas at being messed with.

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It's unconstitutional for the state to interfere in religious practices, right?
Hail Satan!

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@peachcreek

By “proving” that abortion is the work of the devil.

I saw a Judaic scholarly refutation of the law on Facebook that shows that the Old Testament did not forbid abortions. That is the way to go IMO.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

@Lily O Lady

of millions of children and millions of fetuses throughout the biblical fables, I don't think HE or SHE or WHATEVER has the moral standing to say anything about abortion.

Also, there's the bitter waters story...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_the_bitter_water

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"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin

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@Fishtroller 02

Bible, so much as to head off the New Witch Trials of 2021 complete with torture and executions. On the other hand, there may already be no way to stop it.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

@Lily O Lady good. Let them radicalize their taliban followers. That will destroy them at last.

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that her religious beliefs compelled her to make that decision. If religionists can use their beliefs to avoid laws, so can pro-choice women.

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"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin

Mexico

The Supreme Court has ruled that an abortion law in Mexico violates its constitution.

In Mexico’s northern Coahuila state, women who had abortions and the people who aided them could be sentenced to up to three years in prison. Ten supreme court judges voted that this law is unconstitutional on September 7, The Washington Post reported. Now, women who are charged after undergoing an abortion can sue the state to have their charges dropped. This is a major win for activists who have been pushing for gender equality and the decriminalization of abortion in Latin America.

“Abortion has been effectively decriminalized in Mexico,” Paula Avila-Guillen, executive director of New York’s Women’s Equality Center, said. “And every woman currently imprisoned in the country for abortion can use this precedent to be freed.”

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were they ready for this too?

A website designed to report tips on Texans trying to obtain abortions is up and running again, now hosted by a company that also powers neo-Nazi sites.

Epik — a provider known for hosting QAnon home base 8chan, Alex Jones' conspiracy site InfoWars, and right-wing social media site Parler — is now hosting ProLifeWhistleblower.com, a website for anonymous tipsters to send in information about people assisting Texans obtaining abortions.

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