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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The democrats pushed this through for the same reason they’ve pushed other bills to censor the internet, using piracy or CSAM as excuses. They aren’t really trying to protect anyone, they want and need control over the population as much as the republicans do, so that they can maintain the cash flow from corporations that own them. So many people still look at the democrats as an opposition party to the fascists, but that isn’t true at all. They work together because they’re two sides of the same party. The only thing they’re truly concerned with protecting is their own money and power.

Both the democrats and republicans are profoundly evil.

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Republicans pass legislation through the two houses of Congress they entirely control, a Republican president signs it.

You: “The Democrats pushed this through.”

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It passed 409-2 and the 2 no votes were Republican.

Senate was unanimous.

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Ok so 2 people out of 535 in Republican-controlled Congress voted against it, how is it accurate to say “Democrats pushed it through”?

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https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h104

Two republicans voted no. Every Dem who voted, voted yes.

We may not be able to say they stopped it, but I think it’s reasonable to want them to try to.

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Your comment sounds pretty fucking stupid considering every single democrats who voted, voted yes. Now get that boot out of your mouth, you’re embarrassing yourself.

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American decline is happening at a much faster pace than I anticipated.

If you don’t own a gun, now is the time.

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This reminds me of the DNC super donor Ed Buck who would lure in gay black men and kill them by injecting meth into them while raping them.

He managed to do it for years and wasn’t until one of the victims survived to be able talk about it that he was sentenced as with every previous body it was said it was a private issue and a sad loss of a friend.
Photos managed to get shared of his racist, rape, death den helping sway the public.

Ed Buck would have loved this bill and its ability to actively scrub his image further.
If it feels like monsters would like something I don’t want it.

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Why the fuck did all the democrats vote Yes for this

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Because they’d like to use it too.

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Fascism is an integration of government and corporations. Democrats are officially just the other side of the coin after this. 100% one party in the country. The longer any politician fights under the banner of Republican or Democrat the longer they want this system to continue.

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I’m so done with them. Primary all of them.

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Because the mainstream democrats (the corpocentrists, mostly) believe that the tools of fascism and oppression are perfectly fine to keep around as long as they’re wielded by enlightened leadership. All you have to do is simply never lose an election ever. Nbd. Why do they want to keep the tools of fascism around? Uh… (Hurriedly stuffing cash in pockets) Safety, terrorists or child molesters or something, look don’t worry about it.

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I think because the sentiment of the bill is good.

The problem is on the required action and the broad definition of what a “covered platform” is.

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So just assume they voted yes since only 2 republicans voted against including the Democrats

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I’d like to know why those 2 Republicans voted “no” when every Democrat voted “yes”.

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My guess is they never read any of it, but heard the Democrats were voting “yes” so they voted “no” purely for opposition.

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Wait, US Congress still exists? Certainly wouldn’t know it based on how the nation has been governed for the past 4 months.

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They exist for the important work of censoring critics.

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