You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Not feckless. Collaborators.

no just posting statements from canva

We're just saying it out loud now oh my god

Q: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them? TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?

In case you weren't aware, Elon Musk's grok AI is being used to make CSEM. Users are @'ing grok on random photos women updated and asking the AI to turn them naked. And some of those photos are underaged girls.

Happy new years and fuck Senator Blumenthal and Durbin

Just once, I'd like to see Dick Durbin *try* to explain the actual mechanisms by which repealing 230 will protect children from being exploited and abused. There will be hand waving about how it will "open them up to litigation" but that's not an answer.

🇦🇺: 67% support the new legal ban on all social media for minors under 16 BUT only 29% will actually enforce that for their own kids “Bans for thee and thine, but not for me and mine!”🤦‍♂️

Also that one group that's all "Gen Z" kids that has been lobbying congress to pass KOSA and has all this mysterious cash laying around to fly all over the country ALSO was supporting a tiktok ban. So do with that what you will

Here's the Senators cosponsoring new S.3546 to FULLY REPEAL SECTION 230 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... @durbin.senate.gov (D-IL) Grassley (R-IA) @whitehouse.senate.gov (D-RI) Hawley (R-MO) @klobuchar.senate.gov Blackburn (R-TN) @blumenthal.senate.gov (D-CT) Moody (R-FL) @welch.senate.gov (D-VT)

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

Really great piece by @charlottewillner.bsky.social & @davidsullivan.bsky.social highlighting how at the very same time Congress was claiming to want to "protect the children online," the White House was announcing that it's blocking visas for trust & safety workers who actually help kids be safe

Senator Durbin has had this explained to him multiple times. Getting rid of 230 doesn't help this, but will make it worse. It will make it impossible for smaller sites to exist (like this one) and will give MORE POWER to companies like Meta and X. Why would Durbin want to do that?

No theyre not. You know they're not. You know Section 230 being gutted actually let's pedophiles walk free, because this was explained to you and million times by a million people. You want this. You want kids to be harmed. You want these sick abusers to walk free. Otherwise you wouldn't do this.

Sitting on my couch wrapped up in a blanket with a heating pad on my back, a glass of sparkling apple cider, chocolates, my cat on my lap, and a good book

Yep. And I can say from personal experience that several experts within the tech justice space have patiently sat and explained to CCDH why this is a) not true, and b) a position that endangers human rights and each time they have been like "great points, thanks" and then kept pushing the lie

but for some reason rando pundits and organizations with no background in tech policy can pop up out of nowhere with bad ideas like repealing section 230 or mandating online id checks or copyrighting everything etc etc and mostly get a bunch of ppl being like "yeah right on!" and millions in funding

I have a pretty big chip on my shoulder about funders and orgs who Kool-Aid Man their way into the tech policy space without doing even the most basic listening / learning from experts & orgs that have been doing this for decades and think their the first genius to come up with some bad policy idea

gutting Section 230 is one of those ideas that is so world-endingly bad that there is no being able to conceptualize it, so part of me just has this weird numbness when thinking about it passing

First it was "just porn," then it was social media, now messaging apps and image filters. And it's not just kids, it's all of us. The number of places online where one has to show papers or disclose identity grows rapidly. So are the places the government (or AI) needs access, without encryption.

there's so much anger just sitting in my body & mind rotting me from the inside over the world and it's getting to a point where i don't know what to do anymore. turning it into action only does so much but the anger persists and simmers and i feel like i am always stopping myself from boiling over

You absolutely can sue a social media company if they harm you or your kids, actually. You can't sue them for something someone else said, however. You can sue the person who said the thing instead. See how that works? It's very simple, isn't it?

I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.

HOPECORE ✨Federal judge rules ID check law as unconstitutional. The First Amendment prevails in Louisiana today 🙌 www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

i am genuinely so sick of everything.

I wrote about the unprecedented mass censorship and surveillance laws that Congress is trying to ram through in the name of “protecting kids” and how none of this is about protecting kids. In fact, these laws cause great harm to all of us, for @zeteo.com

can all these fuckers retire already?

Section 230 has no useful purpose?? Section 230 IS THE REASON THE INTERNET EXISTS. ARE YOU KIDDING ME @judiciarydems.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov ??? Who wrote this bill?? Why are you all supporting this? You should be ashamed of yourselves!!

YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? ARE YOU ACTUALLY KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW????

Constantly thinking about the alternate universe where Gore won in 2000 and none of this would be happening

The fuck is happening in this framed photo three feet away from Steve Bannon?

One of the worst downsides to winter is how dry your skin gets. I swear I wake up with my skin almost peeling even though I fully exfoliate and moisturize the night before.

Here are some updates from our policy team in D.C. on how yesterday’s House E+C hearing on bad internet bills went yesterday.

i need a CIGARETTE

Must be easy to be a Republican politician where you can just say whatever the fuck and no one fact checks you and you get a bajillion dollars from multiple lobbies and taxpayers and pass whatever harmful laws you can by fearmongering

Very true, I've been listening to the @fightforthefuture.org livestream and they keep emphasizing how much of a difference the huge number of calls this week -- and even today -- have made.

Wow, in the subcommittee hearing, all the Democrats voted "no" on KOSA -- I think it was a straight party-line vote.

KOSA passed out of the subcommittee in the House on 13-10 vote. Meaning that they are FINALLY listening to some opposition. But not enough to prevent the other age verification bills from passing, let alone this. They MUST listen to opposition. Losing this fight is NOT an option.

The subcommittee hearing over age verification bills and KOSA in the House starts in one hour. Here is a list of all their phone numbers. If you want to stop age verification, you have to call them. You can't just tweet your frustrations. Let's have those phones ringing now!

TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online. Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at badinternetbills.com

🚨🚨 Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills. We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW Call 202-224-3121 www.badinternetbills.com

🚨🚨 Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills. We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW Call 202-224-3121 www.badinternetbills.com

i cannot wait until congress goes on holiday and i can finally RELAX. i have about 20 million hours of stardew valley to catch up on

RED ALERT The House Energy & Commerce committee is moving full steam ahead for several age verification bills including KOSA this Thursday We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW Call 202-224-3121 www.badinternetbills.com

I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.

So funny thing about Sam Altman and children-