It would give the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like, with President Trump himself saying 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.

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.

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
    8·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
      11·
      3 hours ago

      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.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        They’re still saying that, however now it means don’t be critical of do nothing democrats. Really thinking .world is redditizing unfortunately