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Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act Despite Major Flaws

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Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president's desk.

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1w ago

Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act Despite Major Flaws

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Call it what it is: a censorship law. Apparently the climate of fear that makes people self-censor wasn’t enough.
Watch for a LOT of ‘extreme left’ opinions get taken down and their authors imprisoned.
- It won't stop with journalists and authors. They'll be looking in Facebook posts, Reddit comments, Twitter threads, Instagram, etc. And random citizens are going to start disappearing.
  They'll want people to know it can happen to anyone, not just the most visible or high profile critics.
- And darlen AOC so called progressive voted for this shit.
  
  Politicians are still too afraid of optics, they don't want to be on record as voting against taking down revenge porn. Too many of these bills are written with a good-sounding premise but the details are where they get you.
  
  Yet they are happy to hand the criminal who is actively shooting people another loaded weapon because "optics".
  They are the kind of people that say you should stay with a partner that rapes and abuses you because it might make family gatherings weird if you complain.
  Fuck those people.
  
  Optics are people's reality. Everyone lives in their own.
  
  As did Bernie.
  
  Bernie is in the Senate not the House of Representatives where AOC serves. How did Bernie vote for this?
  
  The Senate voted for it unanimously in February.
  
  Ahhh. That’s a bummer :(
- Any chance courts can stop this bill for being unconstitutional.
  
  Can, probably yes, will, probably no
  
  Since it's not specifically partisan there's a good chance scotus will actually follow the law on this one.
  
  The NSA mass surveillance program that Snowden blew the whistle on was found unconstitutional during Obama II. THAT SAME AFTERNOON, the Republican Congress and Senate passed the (I shit you not, this is what this MF is named) USA FREEDOM ACT that basically re-instantiated the program and Obama signed it straightaway. Turns out, they were able to get shit done quick and in a hurry when the shit was fascism.
- AIPAC is driving this. Thats why they got the voting numbers that they did.

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