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@housedemocrats.bsky.social Congratulations: Booker Coons Duckworth Gallego Hassan Kim King Klobuchar Peters Reed Rosen Shaheen Slotkin Warner You just don't give a flying fuck do you? You handed the admin. more opportunity to censor. I'm done holding onto any hope of the (D) not giving an inch

Shit

It probably will be held unconstitutional.

Are the Dems now a Vichy party? What in the fuck is their problem?

Does the bill have any clarification on what “revenge images” look like? What counts as such and what does not?

What part of “don’t vote for any of this admin’s initiatives” don’t they understand?

Congress, including the left, has always been hopelessly incompetent when it comes to regulating the internet. I remember writing to Feinstein about SOPA years ago. The response I got made it clear that her office didn't understand the legislation she was championing. Embarrassing.

Maybe that "uniparty" BS had some truth to it. 😒

Both were GOP.

Has Congress done anything, ever, worthwhile related to tech or social media? It’s almost like they are old and stuck in the 80’s

oh god.

I wish lawmakers had to experience the laws they are creating from different points of view before being able to vote on them

Oh FFS... These fucking people will NEVER learn...

why do they refuse to understand the climate they’re operating in

Meanwhile, the proposed committee substitute for the House Judiciary portion of the reconciliation budget bill includes provisions to strip the FTC of all antitrust/competition authority.

Like everything.

To the Dems here:

Sad. But here we are these days.

Hopefully the EFF sue and take this down in court.

Yikes, what are the usually on it about this stuff Dems thinking? Seems like such an obviously terrible bill even without the additional disaster of it giving all this power to Trump

Massie is such a self-righteous asshole it amazes me he keeps getting re-elected but at least he's an asshole to his own party most of the time.

Definitely above zero! But it's always a bit of a crapshoot. I think a sane court would call out the unconstitutional parts. But we have a lot of less-than-sane folks on the bench these days. I do think a strong challenge could succeed though.

Burlison is my representative in SW Missouri. He’s brainless so probably didn’t know what he was voting for.

The attack ads write themselves for anyone who votes against a bill that, on its face, is about tackling the very real problem of non-consensual intimate imagery (just the mechanism is bad here). Bill was going to pass no matter what. So many Dems unwilling to give fodder for attack ads.

During the hearing on the bill she (correctly!) called out how the bill likely would be abused by the FTC to attack and harm the very people it claimed to help protect.

Blame attack ads. Adopt the bad faith strategy when in power.

I'm guessing they were worried about the optics of voting against this when it was going to pass anyway without Dem votes?

Vote them all out.

A lot of people asking why Dems would vote for this and it basically comes down to this. No one wants an attack ad on this subject. bsky.app/profile/mmas...

I would assume that there are quite a few House Ds who grasp Massie's point But either don't care Or don't think they could explain the point to their constituents

bsky.app/profile/mmas...

All Democrats voted for it?

Ignorance brought us here.

And some Dems want to eliminate Section 230 now, too. Short-sighted stooges.

Those of us elderly enough to remember the PMRC know that Dems love censorship as long as it’s For The Chillllllldrunnnnn

How do you fuck that up that badly. Embarrassing.

😩 I mean, it's one thing to vote for such stupid law in "normal" times, when you have a sliver of plausible deniability like "but we trust the system". But to vote for this when the commissioner is overtly transforming the agency into a political thought police🤦🏻🤬

Like facing a sinking ship with a team of people that not only don't know how to swim, but they're actively putting on lead boots.

What the freak are they thinking??

Oh no…:(

Kill me

What in the actual fuck.

The squad voted for it? JFK.

Many Democrats are just as bad at identifying a Trojan horse as the Trojans were.

Why the fuck can't Dems in Congress just do a simple test: How will Republicans immediately misuse this? Better not vote on it (or person) until we have the majority, and we can control it.

Goddamnit. Again, bowing to the insane framing coming from the Right.