We have a little over 24 hours to save the internet. The vote is being rushed to the US House floor on Monday the 29th.
"Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications." -- EFF https://t.co/4vVQcYPDct
The bill has bipartisan support and large corporate donors, who all have a vested interest in eroding your privacy and freedom of speech. Similar bills have already passed in other countries and individual states and led to ID scanning mandates, faulty AI moderation, the removal of encrypted messaging, etc.
If passed, some platforms will require ID scans from all users, some may try to deploy faulty 'estimation' technology that will randomly trigger and cause your accounts to be either permanently deleted or locked until you fork over an ID. These systems have been a disaster where deployed in other regions and led to many account losses and data breaches.
Me in New Jersey on a diet:
Waitress: “Would you like to see the dessert menu? We have cheesecake today.”
Me: “No thank you.”
Waitress: “Our chef has been here for 50 years. He used to cook for Frank Sinatra, and the cheesecake was his favorite.”
Me: “Bring me the fuckin cheesecake.”
I wonder if I'm burning bridges by making art of indie characters like this, because I want to get into indie games myself soon. But! I draw them because I like them! 💚
Poke All Toads!!! 🐸
Purple: So I can open a chain of pizza restaurants
Blue: Because that would end my anxiety around hot people
Black: that's just 33% more time to live my life as a master pizza chef sex magnet
@pmamtraveller I like the fact that perseus's expression is that of a man who can't believe he has to put up with this shit. He wants to be anywhere but in this weird villain wins fanfic of a sculpture but here he is
@human5555555@PrairieCatboy He's not. There's a long history of antisemites finding whatever the flavor of the month social cause is and tying it back to hating and harassing jews.