- cross-posted to:
- technology@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- technology@hexbear.net
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.
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.”
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”?
Maybe they should trying being the OPPOSITION PARTY for once in their miserable careers.
I see how you got confused, let’s try rephrasing it to “passed with unanimous democratic support”.
The house bill was sponsored by a Pennsylvania Democrat and a Florida Republican.
Amy Klobuchar and Ted Cruz introduced the Senate version.
It’s bipartisan and criticism is levelled at the opposition for doing bipartisanship: the chronic problematic condition the Democrats put themselves into while in the minority.
In what world is 2 votes against 400 making any noise? That is 0.5%, democrats surely make up far more than that.
So a majority of democrats voted for this.
They pushed it through.
Every single democrat who voted, voted yes. The other democrats just refused to vote, instead of voting against it.
The funny thing is, I seem to recall every single democrat on Lemmy saying right after the election what not voting against Trump was no different than voting for him. Wonder when that changed.
They’re still saying that, however now it means don’t be critical of do nothing democrats. Really thinking .world is redditizing unfortunately
My point is that it’s very odd to focus on the Democrats specifically when Republicans brought the bills up for a vote, and Republicans also basically unanimously voted for it…more Republicans voted for it than Democrats, and a Republican president is signing the bill.
Republicans pushed it through, Democrats voted for it also. You are allowed to criticize either party for voting for it, but you are being inaccurate if you are saying the Democrats are disproportionately responsible for passage, as the term “pushed it through” means.
“Republican controlled” doesn’t mean they’re all Republican. It means they have a majority. 535 votes in favor essentially means unanimous support.
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.
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.