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@MariaHill See also: Christians once again using the state to ram their religion down our throats. Which in and of itself is reason enough to oppose stuff like this.

@MariaHill So what you're telling us is that you've learned nothing from the rightwing attempt in the 90's to prevent teen sex by doing things like attempting to ban sex ed or curtail access to birth control? I was under the impression that teen pregnancy is bad.

@soundshadow87 Do you have a Pi?

@soundshadow87 It stops it because it blocks the ads when it can. Adblocking is an arms race, so there are periods in time where the adtech is ahead of the adblocker, but that's usually remedied pretty quickly. The only trick to adblockers is that there are sites that disallow them, like Youtube, and if you're using Chrome you will want to switch browsers to Firefox because Chrome is about to kneecap adblockers as of this summer.

@soundshadow87 Stuff like this is why I love adblockers.

If you mute someone you won't see if they @ you.

@ppatel I'm not sure executing corporations fixes this. Not without creating tons of other problems at least.

@0xamit @Oeneus Give them time they'll find someone else to add to the list. They already tried with people with disabilities when they did that thing a few years ago where they went after people who objected to paper straws and the pre-cut fruit and vegetable products.

It still has to pass the senate and be signed into law.

Yes, I'm in favor of robust privacy legislation with an enforcement mechanism that isn't lawsuits.

They could, but as of yet none of the large American social media companies are owned by the government. Tictoc essentially is at this point. So while I have concerns about a ban, doing nothing isn't really an option, and so far the concerned among us haven't proposed anything close to a solution to all this.

Not sure I'd count on this because I'm not sure most of the people doing the protesting know the Levant is a thing or where to find it on a map.

@druidess Your wife is made of win.

Narrator: It will not.

Thanks. Me too.

Thank you I hope so.

@ben @ProPublica There's something people really do need to understand. Journalism done well has costs. The way you offset those costs is to give money. You can do that with subscriptions or you can do that with donations, but there still is no such thing as a free lunch. And Mastodon doesn't get a pass on this because it's flexing its anticapitalist muscles right now.

He will not do this, and I am here for every single minute of it.

I was wondering when Trump was going to pull the rug out from under the people who have decided they should try relidigating his Charlottesville response in order to increase the Jewish vote for Republicans. Guess we didn't have to wait too long.

I hope they continue to give him hell for that.