The problem with this is you just know after they pass it they’ll amend it to expand the definition from social media platforms to any platform of a certain size on the internet. Suddenly the whole internet is subject to censorship, review, lawsuits, banning encryption, age-gating and ID demands.

This is just a foot in the door move around kids to get the framework in then later change it to do all the stuff they really want to do like censor and chill speech, clamp down on encryption, mandate log-keeping for VPNs, implement age-gating that requires submitting IDs for anything even vaguely adult, etc, etc. In other words the beginning of an all-out attack on the open internet.

So much awful stuff that both sides seem to be able to agree on

This is so fucking frustrating. These fuckers don’t care about kids, they never did. Not now, not back when this was copa, not before that. I’m so fucking tired.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)

Is he the new Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)?

Of the 3 reps to vote against this 2 of them were Republicans