Julie Barrett

Blue state refugee WA➡️FL🐊🌴🇺🇸 Christian ✝️, wife 👩‍❤️‍👨, mom x 4, Founder of Conservative Ladies of America

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@C6702086662711 Exactly

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

The new influencer campaign has dropped:

Defend the FLOCK

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

Imagine being a law abiding citizen and you’re afraid of cameras on public property.

Whats next, tearing down the boards that tell you you’re speeding?

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@Marcus28070 “Conservatives” cheering for America to become like China.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

I don’t think we’re in disagreement. I’m not suggesting that parents be their child’s friend or give them unfettered access to the digital world. Parents need to be educated - or educate themselves (which is our duty as parents…to seek education to be better parents) on the controls available on the devices and platforms they are allowing their children to access.

I think we’re aligned in our opposition to government mandating age verification to access the internet, apps, social media etc etc

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

This is a really great article about the policy proposals being floated to require ID to use AI.

Overall, everyone agrees that the digital world presents many new harms to children and challenges to parents and society, in general. It's the solution where we disagree. It is my position that parents must have the authority to decide what is best for their child, not the government. And as John notes, if we give the government the authority to decide what information children can access, we can rest assured the government is going to take full advantage of that for their own agenda.

Parents need tools and education and most of all, parents need to be willing to take the time to set boundaries and monitor what their kids are doing in the digital world.

Check out the full article 🔗👇

[John Coleman @FreeSpeech_AI]

https://t.co/aJ2rjO0GmP

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

This is a very thorough case for the ASAA.

What I find most interesting about this particular policy and your piece is the spin that it age gates "harmful online products" or as your buddies at APP like to say, it age gates "Big P0rn" (their latest marketing angle) as a way to sell it to legislators but it isn't accurate to "the Act."

Your paper opens with the problem, which is a point that I think all sides agree on. But then you pivot to a solution that doesn't even touch on the problem. Age verification at the App Store level doesn't touch the addictive design features, the strangers kids are encountering online, the targeted ads, the harmful content. All of those dangers still exist under "the Act." And once a parent clicks "consent," the developer is fully compliant regardless of how the app is designed or what it does to a kid's attention span. You're not solving the problem you opened with, but selling a false sense of security to lawmakers and parents.

I notice that you didn't touch on the liability piece of this. Meta and Grindr and other developers like "the Act" because it shifts liability onto Apple and Google. Once the age signal is sent and consent is logged, the developer carries no liability, regardless of what the app does or how it's designed.

I have experienced first-hand the government stripping me of my parental authority. It devastated our family and it's why I have such a passion for looking closely at these policies and determining how it will impact the family, especially a parent's right to make decisions for their child. This is a government mandate - that is not how you empower parents. Give them tools. Give them education.

I don't say this to open a new back-and-forth, I say it because I believe parents and lawmakers deserve an honest account of what this bill does and doesn't do.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

But why? Genuinely...what would be the point? I find it odd that someone like yourself - a lawyer who has high positions with many of the country's largest think tanks would even care about a mom in Florida with an opinion on policy. It doesn't make sense. You don't seem to be in it for the engagement statistics...so what gives?

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@The_AVPA @joellthayer Why would an American parent activist want to have a debate with a UK trade association's lobbyist? That makes zero sense.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

With the exception of about 3 dudes whose careers depend on them to support the App Store Accountability Act, most resort to blocking when they are asked simple questions about the policy they support.

They do not have a defense. So they resort to blocking and insulting.

But none denied their Meta paycheck. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Western Civ Maximalist @brian_lenney]

@juliecbarrett I saw Meta Melissa chimpin out on on all this on another thread. She's really gone off the reservation, but I can't respond because she blocked me.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@TPV_John Can’t get past the lips

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@joellthayer Lay out the case. You do it all the time when you prepare briefs for court. Do it here.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@KellyLMcCarty @KenShepherd

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

Not "my" kids - just "kids."
I would have to search your tweets which I'm not interested in doing right now. It's very possible that I've deemed you guilty by association as you do tend to pig pile on with Terry and Jon.

I think it's safe to say we do not share the same sense of humor. That said...the teleprompter certainly would have helped Jon not look like he didn't even have an elementary understanding of how age verification and parental controls work during his debate with Deep Humor.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@Schilling1776 @JonSchweppe @joellthayer You really are a piece of work, Terry.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@EduEmpowerKids @NCOSE @ParentsWhoFight @JonSchweppe @joellthayer Oh man!!! Just when I thought I was finally learning to read bills, Dina shows up to set me straight.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

The self-proclaimed "architect" of the App Store Accountability Act recently said in an interview that people who oppose the policy are claiming it is a Digital ID.

She then goes on to describe everything the app stores already do...mass data collection, biometrics, tracking your every move (even when you get up at night to use the bathroom), and knowing everything about you and your kids.

"The ASAA isn't Big Brother because it's already Big Brother." 🤡

Next level gaslighting.

If you missed the livestream with Senator Brian Lenney, catch the replay here: https://t.co/syQ4DkVlZn

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

We agree I never said "nasty." And no, having a policy disagreement is not being "nasty". But you've jumped on board with calling me names and that I want kids to see p0rn. Oh yes, and that I might only accept a debate invite with a teleprompter. Clearly, you've not seen my testimonies opposing the ASAA where I've answered at length when asked questions by legislators in hearings.

Disagreeing is fine but you disparage people who disagree with you.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

Why would I entertain the idea of a public debate with you? You've been nothing but a prick to me on this platform. There's nothing for me to gain from it.

If you truly want to debate ideas, maybe don't act like a child and insult people who disagree with you on policy - making it personal when it never needed to be.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

@BLkhoih96132 Exactly.

[Joy Gjersvold, Troublemaker @ArtiSt4AMERICA]

@Melissa_M818 @JonSchweppe And yes, I know you said PornHub. You are mistaken on that count too. Both @juliecbarrett and @brian_lenney have said Grindr supports the ASAA. Please at least try to quote them correctly.

[Western Civ Maximalist @brian_lenney]

Meet Meta Melissa...

Yesterday I got on a podcast and explained how we killed the App Store Accountability Act in Idaho.

Behind the scenes, mostly, which is how most bills actually die (no hearing means no vote, and no vote means the thing just evaporates). I said that part out loud on the recording and anyone can go listen.

So what does she do with it?

Invents a version where I claimed the bill got formally introduced three years running, fact checks the thing she made up, then blocks me so I cannot respond.

Then she claimed that protecting your kid on an iPhone takes hours and "fifty pages" of settings, supposedly. I did it on camera in under two minutes, held my phone up like a boomer and clicked through the whole thing while people watched.

Anyone who owns a smartphone already knows the hours claim is nonsense, which might be why she'd rather argue with a sentence I never said. She also says Pornhub doesn't support the App Store Accountability Act, but they clearly do, as does Grindr. (see image below).

Notice she never mentioned that. Her, Pornhub, and Grindr walk into a bar. Am I right?

Can't win the argument that happened?

Manufacture one you can win, I guess.

This is what Meta's money gets them.

Someone whose whole job is muddying the water, and when the water won't muddy she just blocks the guy and calls it a fact check.

We don't need a new law to help parents be parents. Parents just need to... be parents.