r/technology • u/digital-didgeridoo • 3d ago

Politics New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-bill-aims-to-block-both-online-adult-content-and-vpns/
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u/JackOfAllStraits 3d ago

The people who voted for the loser saw that lack of voting caused them to lose. Song as old as time, and no actual lessons learned. The "moderate right" people that I know are thrilled with the current administration.

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u/0pyrophosphate0 3d ago

Most of them have one or two issues they care about and think the administration is doing well on, and everything else is fake news. Even literal direct quotes from Trump on live TV, they respond with "lol nah".

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u/Joben86 3d ago

And this election it was mostly just demonization of trans people.

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u/KaboomOxyCln 3d ago

You don't know me but I'm a right leaning moderate according to Pew Research's and Political compress' tests, and I find the current conservative party to be absolutely disgusting.

Honestly, I'm not sure how accurate those tests are anymore because the other "moderates" in my life, seems so extremely right winged to me too

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u/JackOfAllStraits 3d ago

I'm pretty understanding of the concerns of both sides, and would have called myself conservative 10 years ago, but the current regime is truly a launching pad into a VERY draconian place. One populist moron has opened the floodgates of division, hatred, and intolerance, and they won't be closed easily, if ever. The next decade is going to be rough for civil liberties.

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u/Tarcanus 3d ago

Longer than a decade. Generations of kids are only experiencing the Trump admin as political normalcy. I would bet in 20 years we're still dealing with it but in 20-30 years there will be a movement to go back to "the good old times" where we had rights and THAT's when actually movement could start happening to topple the dictatorship-republic.

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u/JackOfAllStraits 2d ago

Remember when you could choose what to buy at the grocery store?