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.
Democrats on lemmy after the election: Not voting against Trump is no better than a vote for him.
Democrats after a vote that allows Trump to censor whomever he wants: Not voting is #Resistance.
American decline is happening at a much faster pace than I anticipated.
If you don’t own a gun, now is the time.
I’m confused isn’t this just for images tho?
Visual medium and anything that can cause social distress or economic impact.
That’s the basic wording of the bill which allows for a lot of wiggle room but true that we can still write mean things, but that was always subject to libel and then your photo evidence to go with your article can be censored.
America needs a reset or to be splintered. The one we have is straight up evil.
I’m American, and I vote heavily splintered. We are constantly doing shit that is profoundly evil, so we need to be weakened enough that we don’t have the ability to project power outside our own borders, for the safety of the Middle East and other small countries the world over.
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.
Republicans pass legislation through the two houses of Congress they entirely control, a Republican president signs it.
You: “The Democrats pushed this through.”
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.
It passed 409-2 and the 2 no votes were Republican.
Senate was unanimous.
Ok so 2 people out of 535 in Republican-controlled Congress voted against it, how is it accurate to say “Democrats pushed it through”?
