Meta's @eigenrobot predicts the House-passed KIDS Act will fail in the Senate or face First Amendment blocks

@eigenrobot Every normie i speak to, including well educated professionals, thinks this stuff is a great idea because they’ve all been reading the Science and the Research and they Know that evil open internet norms cause lots of Harm to kids.

Turns out voters hate the internet, sad days

@ConradBastable @eigenrobot Everything about goyim is them trying to find an external invader who is responsible for all their woes. It's just really fucking hypocritical with the internet because it's just them getting shown a mirror and not liking it.

@ConradBastable @eigenrobot Phone free schools is sensible and kids shouldn't be on the internet, but this is the dumbest most monkeys paw way to grant that wish possible, they put belladonna in the cure.

@eigenrobot Would be nice if our elected representative could stop doing shit like this

Part of the reason why I think we should dramatically expand the membership in the House - like 1 rep per 10,000 people - which would dramatically increase the cost of lobbying.

@ConradBastable jeez

welp

@ReRelatively im not "worrying" but the internet is simply getting worse and generally caged. we're heading into whatever comes after the iron age.

yes there are skill gated areas, but the public square matters too

@eigenrobot This is all obviously groundwork to just completely deanonymize the internet and implement european style censorship controls. Conservative politicians voting for this are like pigs voting for the slaughterhouse since it will obviously be weaponized against non-Liberals

@eigenrobot I try not to worry. We won some of the cookie war, and the net neutrality decision ended up not being half as bad as we expected.

Truth is that tech savvy people will always have access to a sort of free exchange of items and information, even if the throughout declines. No doom

@don_draper112 @eigenrobot actually believing this is about accessing porn is failing the IQ test

@WhiskeyPolitik ha

athenian jury theory of legislation

cc @turrible_tao

@eigenrobot I just wrote to my senators and urged them to pass it, as a member of the first generation to see how unfettered access to adult content stunted my peers' abilities to form relationships.

@don_draper112 @eigenrobot if it pushes verification it’s about controlling the online sphere, easy reasoning could have brought you there

and we actually have data on how govts. and tech corps colluded to censor or ban people and content, this is not a hypothetical scenario

you are just gullible

@don_draper112 @eigenrobot companies will just go abroad, this doesnt seem like it meaningfully cuts down on porn

@ConradBastable @eigenrobot good argument against universal suffrage I’d say

the tyranny of normies is real

@don_draper112 @eigenrobot no, that’s your personal desire, a highly unlikely outcome and also irrelevant to the ID disadvantages

You should probably also google what a reductio ad absurdum is and isn’t

@don_draper112 @eigenrobot Problem is it will be about as useful as paper handcuffs are as fetters

@don_draper112 @eigenrobot motivation is irrelevant to the effect of a policy

that people get used for this stuff renders them much worse political idiots than the ones who accept it’s a pretext

@lickofcow @eigenrobot We start here, and in the end we overturn Stanley v. Georgia.

@eigenrobot How about we start with banning advertising to kids. That clearly doesn't seem like free speech and is probably similarly harmful

@edelnougat @eigenrobot This is such a ridiculous and unfalsifiable claim. Who or what determines what a given policy is "about" when it is inevitably influenced by hundreds, if not thousands, of stakeholders, each of whom support it for different reasons?