Punishing American tech for good product design only hurts consumers and proves Europe prefers taxing success over innovating.
"What gets buried in all this regulatory pageantry is the person actually using Google Search." - Tyler Fields 💡
The First Amendment ensures that the internet can be a vibrant marketplace of ideas. 🇺🇸
When politicians try to control what users say or see online, they undermine free expression and American innovation. We must protect it.
Americans shouldn't lose their data privacy rights just by crossing state lines. A dizzying patchwork of state laws invites security risks and hurts small businesses.
Congress must pass a national privacy standard. 🧑💻🔐
We recently sued Nebraska to stop the portions of LB 383 that force citizens to surrender digital I.D.’s just to access lawful information & use everyday digital services. 🪪 📲
This overreach violates the First Amendment & creates a honeypot of personal data for hackers.
The solution here is to implement child-only phones. Phones with more limited abilities/access to the internet.
But no. It's not about protecting children it's about surveillance.
It shows you how little the people who make laws regarding tech actually know about tech.
You can already block sensitive content, and set screen time passwords (different from phone password) to blur all sensitive content.
You can set up a child account that has most protections on by default.
Perhaps it's a parenting issue. The tools are there, they're just not being used.
Unlike mods and progs here, I'll still vote blue not matter how. I'll die on that hill. I'll support good bills that make sense from my party along with standing against bad bill that don't make sense or are just terrible.
I’m gonna be leaving the Governor question blank in November. In good conscience, I can’t vote for Xavier Becerra. He’ll become our de facto governor when the race gets certified — likely with artificial record support because of a Blue Wave election.
Bills with votes that uniformly supported fall into two categories:
1. Common sense statutory clean up or repeals of bad law.
2. Absolute dog shit ideas that somehow have been embraced by everyone.
His campaign would be like if a Bernie Dem in Wyoming developed a big national social media following and people falling in love with them for pitching progressive policies only to get 27% of the vote in the end because Wyoming won't vote for a progressive.
What really annoys me about the "California is actually a Republican state. There's just fraud." thing is that every other check we have points to it being massively Dem. Party registration is heavily Dem, polls confirm it, and Dem donors from CA massively outnumber GOP donors.