• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    it’s not a war on porn; it’s a war on lgbtq people and content. the people pushing for these bills have straight up said that.

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      3 months ago

      It’s a war on both, but especially on LGBTQ people. The fundamentalists are anti-porn in the same way that they are anti-sex in other ways, like opposing sex education.

      But it is absolutely part of their strategy to define anything LGBTQ-related as sexual or pornographic, and therefore to criminalize any public visibility of LGBTQ people.

    • Persen@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It’s a war on any free speech, they don’t like. They could just add more restrictions for certain people.

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        3 months ago

        Exactly. They want to know who is saying what, which is why they’re making these services ask for ID. It’s about control, and “protecting children” is the excuse.

        It’s the same reason they’re trying to ban cryptocurrencies like Monero (private, non-traceable transactions), end-to-end encryption, copyright circumvention tech, etc. They want backdoors to access all the information under the guise of “security,” but really it’s about control.

        Screw all of it. Resist at every turn, and hopefully they’ll violate your rights so you can sue them (with help from groups like the ACLU) and force a policy reversal. That’s the most effective tool we’ve got.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not a war, it’s a safari.

      I mean, other than surveillance and control, this allows them to feel their power.