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.
Wait, US Congress still exists? Certainly wouldn’t know it based on how the nation has been governed for the past 4 months.
They exist for the important work of censoring critics.
American decline is happening at a much faster pace than I anticipated.
If you don’t own a gun, now is the time.
I’m confused isn’t this just for images tho?
Visual medium and anything that can cause social distress or economic impact.
That’s the basic wording of the bill which allows for a lot of wiggle room but true that we can still write mean things, but that was always subject to libel and then your photo evidence to go with your article can be censored.
Isn’t this what the DMCA is for?
I think you mean the communications decency act? Most of that has been found to be unconstitutional as will likely be the fate of this bill…
Not with the MAGA Supreme Court on the job.
That’s a possibility, but laws like this cut in many directions.
Yeah but the DMCA was vaguely reasonable. This is meant to be weaponized.
Meant to be or not, it’s still weaponized.
the DMCA was vaguely reasonable
No it wasn’t. It too was MEANT to be weaponized from day one. The difference is that almost all of the people in control of both parties and all mainstream media were in favor, so it got a false veneer of reasonability in coverage.
The DMCA is just as bad as SOPA and PIPA, which was always the intent from the powerful industry groups lobbying for all three bills and the politicians they own.
“Flood the zone” benefits both parties when it comes to power grab shit like this. This barely made headlines until it was already passed and it’s too late.
Oligarchs gonna oligarch.
America needs a reset or to be splintered. The one we have is straight up evil.
I’m American, and I vote heavily splintered. We are constantly doing shit that is profoundly evil, so we need to be weakened enough that we don’t have the ability to project power outside our own borders, for the safety of the Middle East and other small countries the world over.
Another step closer to achieving his Nazi wet dream.
rumor has it that AOC voted for this
She did. She ‘objected to some of the wording’ but jumped in line like a good little puppet.
Her and Bernie won’t acknowledge palestinian defenders in their rallies. Puppets to the bone like all the others, just another form of controlled opposition.
Kompromat
She’s part of the problem.
We like to believe she isn’t, but she’s a proud consumer just like the rest of them.
She will never fight back against the culture of consumption until it becomes cool to do so.
I can eat for literal days, having several pounds of meat, for $15. Meanwhile she feels justified in defending spending $15 on avocado toast and her useful idiots support her because they’re part of the problem, too.
All democrats become conservatives when their consumerism is threatened.
She absolutely was a progressive, until that corporate lobby money started hitting her bank account.
Now her bullshit is just performative, like all the rest.
I guess. I have seen her giggle about the need of cheap slave labor.
She’s just another capitalist who want her own comfort more than she wants what’s best for others.
censorship is bipartisan, they just want to censor different things
They all did, it was 409 vs 2, with 22 not voting:
https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll104.xml
And ironically the only two Nays came from Republicans.
Good news, now we can report all those christians online that won’t shut the fuck up!!
Anyone else hear thunderous applause?
Remember, America, it’s through your inaction that these changes are possible. Really, they should be thanking you for standing aside and letting them remodel the whole government.
I’m fighting back in the ways I can.
Namely by reducing my contribution to the eternal consumption engine while convincing others to do the same so our rulers have fewer resources to use against us.
I want off this ride
The ride don’t stop until you make it stop.
Call it what it is: a censorship law. Apparently the climate of fear that makes people self-censor wasn’t enough.
Watch for a LOT of ‘extreme left’ opinions get taken down and their authors imprisoned.
Any chance courts can stop this bill for being unconstitutional.
Can, probably yes, will, probably no
Since it’s not specifically partisan there’s a good chance scotus will actually follow the law on this one.
The NSA mass surveillance program that Snowden blew the whistle on was found unconstitutional during Obama II. THAT SAME AFTERNOON, the Republican Congress and Senate passed the (I shit you not, this is what this MF is named) USA FREEDOM ACT that basically re-instantiated the program and Obama signed it straightaway. Turns out, they were able to get shit done quick and in a hurry when the shit was fascism.
It won’t stop with journalists and authors. They’ll be looking in Facebook posts, Reddit comments, Twitter threads, Instagram, etc. And random citizens are going to start disappearing.
They’ll want people to know it can happen to anyone, not just the most visible or high profile critics.And darlen AOC so called progressive voted for this shit.
As did Bernie.
Bernie is in the Senate not the House of Representatives where AOC serves. How did Bernie vote for this?
The Senate voted for it unanimously in February.
Ahhh. That’s a bummer :(
Politicians are still too afraid of optics, they don’t want to be on record as voting against taking down revenge porn. Too many of these bills are written with a good-sounding premise but the details are where they get you.
Yet they are happy to hand the criminal who is actively shooting people another loaded weapon because “optics”.
They are the kind of people that say you should stay with a partner that rapes and abuses you because it might make family gatherings weird if you complain.
Fuck those people.Optics are people’s reality. Everyone lives in their own.
AIPAC is driving this. Thats why they got the voting numbers that they did.
This reminds me of the DNC super donor Ed Buck who would lure in gay black men and kill them by injecting meth into them while raping them.
He managed to do it for years and wasn’t until one of the victims survived to be able talk about it that he was sentenced as with every previous body it was said it was a private issue and a sad loss of a friend.
Photos managed to get shared of his racist, rape, death den helping sway the public.Ed Buck would have loved this bill and its ability to actively scrub his image further.
If it feels like monsters would like something I don’t want it.
