The Secret War To Censor The Internet

The Secret War To Censor The Internet

Recent Lextorias video explains how a 2018 FOSTA-SESTA law amended protections to the Communications Decency Act, and immediately opened the flood gates for targeted harassment of payment processors for adult content censorship.

  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I called it years ago when my wife first watched The Handmaid’s Tale: I said oh fuck, this is now what the conservatives are going to create. Ever since then I have periodically written online about this, and how we should start getting used to America as Gilead. It started to spread slowly, and I see people make this reference more and more, and I truly hope it’s not too late. Because that’s their goddamn wet dream; to make America into exactly as depicted in those book / shows.

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      24 hours ago

      The Handmaid’s Tale, was in turn, partly based on how Iran went from an absolute kingdom with a secular urban culture and lifestyle to a male-dominated theocracy.

      That the US began largely as a string of colonies run by religious officials, an arrangement those megalomaniacal evangelists are trying to bring back, those pricks literally believing they’re on “holy” land and must live up to it.

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        21 hours ago

        But they left Europe in part to get away from church government. First amendment and all that. Most of them were religious but they wanted it out of government.

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        1 day ago

        Well, since the 1950s, but this only inspired them with a clear depiction and got them to amp it up even more.

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      1 day ago

      The funniest thing is hopping on a VPN to avoid porn bans and the state the VPN is in also has a porn ban.

      Well, “funny”. It’s actually depressing.