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.
If you want to see how your representatives voted
Why the fuck did all the democrats vote Yes for this
Because the mainstream democrats (the corpocentrists, mostly) believe that the tools of fascism and oppression are perfectly fine to keep around as long as they’re wielded by enlightened leadership. All you have to do is simply never lose an election ever. Nbd. Why do they want to keep the tools of fascism around? Uh… (Hurriedly stuffing cash in pockets) Safety, terrorists or child molesters or something, look don’t worry about it.
Because they’d like to use it too.
Fascism is an integration of government and corporations. Democrats are officially just the other side of the coin after this. 100% one party in the country. The longer any politician fights under the banner of Republican or Democrat the longer they want this system to continue.
I’m so done with them. Primary all of them.
I think because the sentiment of the bill is good.
The problem is on the required action and the broad definition of what a “covered platform” is.
So just assume they voted yes since only 2 republicans voted against including the Democrats
I’d like to know why those 2 Republicans voted “no” when every Democrat voted “yes”.
My guess is they never read any of it, but heard the Democrats were voting “yes” so they voted “no” purely for opposition.
There’s different factions in the republicans just like there are different factions in the democrats (though I’d argue that the democrats are somewhat more of a monolith and seem to really actively hate deviation from the party line). At a blind guess, I’d wager that Rand Paul voted no, since he’s one of the more libertarian leaning legislators. Though, I’d be unsurprised if he voted yes. For every good take, Rand has a dozen real stinkers, but much like a broken clock, he does get it right once in a while and isn’t afraid to break from the party on stuff.