I know this has been all over but since I made it I figured I should post it here (non link edition) No such thing as White Pride pic.twitter.com/6wtSdeJ0Mk
Read the full article. The bill has the backing of the “Christ-centered” anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Kansas Family Voice. Its author is GOP Rep. Susan Humphries, whose bio notes that she is a graduate of Texas Christian University.
I saw this story. I tried to post it from the newspaper but it was impossible. Then I see that Joe My God posted it. So here it is.
The author of the bill is a fundamentalist Christian and graduated from a Christian college. On democrat claims the bill is written too vague by mistake and would basically keep young people from any website that even mentions gay couples / LGBTQ+ information. Dude that is not a mistake it is what they want to use the law for. The goal is to remove any and all positive mentions from anyone under 18 in society. The further goal is to wipe the LGBTQ+ from society totally. The people behind these bills hate that LGBTQ+ people are treated with respect, affection, and equality. They hate that kids accept and like their LGBTQ+ fellow students. The right wants those kids to hate and target any other kid who is different for harassment and harm. Beat and scare those kids straight and cis. Hugs. Scottie
A Kansas bill could consider a photo of a same-sex couple holding hands pornographic, some Democratic lawmakers warn. They say a bill aimed at barring children from accessing online material considered harmful to minors could carry serious unintended consequences for LGBTQ+ communities.
The bill would require users to verify they are over 18 years old to enter any website where more than 25% of its content is deemed “harmful to minors.” It aims to restrict children’s access to pornography. However, homosexuality is listed in the statute alongside overtly sexual acts as harmful to minors.
The statute has raised questions about whether the law could be applied to censor LGBTQ+ content in books, chat rooms, and non-explicit photographs of same-sex couples. Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, would be in charge of determining what is considered obscene.
Read the full article. The bill has the backing of the “Christ-centered” anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Kansas Family Voice. Its author is GOP Rep. Susan Humphries, whose bio notes that she is a graduate of Texas Christian University.
Could a Kansas bill censor non-explicit, LGBTQ+ content? Lawyers, lawmakers disagree https://t.co/XrXtWlLkg0
Funny thing is that we didn’t have access to any websites yet still turned out gay.
I would have loved to have had access to a site like JMG when I was a kid, it would have been so nice to have a supportive community like we have here on JMG
The fascists will go as far as they possibly can, implementing countless anti-LGBTQ laws, before they are pushed back. We still have time before we hit the iceberg but it’s a huge ship to turn around.
OMG…how much happier a struggling, self-tormented teen Mark would have been if there was a site like this, with so many wonderful, intelligent, funny & awesome people to let me know I wasn’t alone and that I would be alright.
In high-school I had a friend who came out to me as a transgender woman. Because this was the early 90’s, while she had come out to her parents who were supportive, she was waiting until she was 18 to go on HRT and living as her true self. One Monday in our junior year, she just never showed up for class. The teachers were told her parents had moved, but the administration was rather cagey when I tried to ask. I hope they had moved to help keep her safe, but I never saw her nor heard from her again. In a way, to me, she’s the sign on the easel. 😿
“They say a bill aimed at barring children from accessing online material considered harmful to minors could carry serious unintended consequences for LGBTQ+ communities.”
How fucking naive can they be? This isn’t an unintended consequence. They want us to be considered legally obscene
I have covered these bans before. Simply put the fundamentalist conservative right are terrified that social media is showing our kids that it is ok to be accepting and tolerant while doing things for all the public instead of just the wealthy. In other words, showing them a different way they could be than simply right wing fundamentalist religious straight cis republicans. So they revamped schools to indoctrinate the kids with right wing fundamentalist. Ah but their indoctrination was being undone by social media. Well ban that also. See that is the right wing way, they don’t like it so ban it, they are the original cancel culture creators. Their way of thinking is to force everyone to live and be just as they are, think like they do, be who they are told to be. Force everyone to worship the same way, live the same way, listen to only the same stuff, eat the same meals … in the land of the free! Their idea of freedom is the right to take freedom away from others. Hugs. Scottie
House Speaker Paul Renner said the bill addresses the ‘addictive features that are at the heart of why children stay on these platforms for hours on end.’
The measure would take effect at the beginning of 2025 – if it survives expected lawsuits from the nation’s largest tech companies.
In that case, minors under 16 would be barred from social media platforms, unless they’re 14- or 15-year-olds who get a parent’s permission.
“You can have a kid in the house safe, seemingly, and then you have predators that can get right in there into your own home,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Jacksonville. “You could be doing everything right but they know how to get and manipulate these different platforms.”
The governor was joined by local school officials and bill sponsors as well as state Attorney General Ashley Moody and Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., all of whom backed the policy.
Also there was House Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, who negotiated with DeSantis on the legislation (HB 3) after the governor vetoed the original version, citing legal and parents’ rights concerns.
The legislation passed both legislative chambers by a broad bipartisan basis, with only a fraction of Democrats dissenting, claiming it was government overreach that would be overturned in the courts. First Amendment advocacy organizations have also come out against the measure, saying largely the same.
But DeSantis and Renner said they believe the measure will survive judicial scrutiny.
“What’s unique in this bill is we didn’t focus on content,” Renner said. “You will not find a line in this bill that addresses good speech or bad speech because that would violate the First Amendment.
“… But what we have addressed is the addictive features that are at the heart of why children stay on these platforms for hours and hours on end.”
The bills defines the affected social media platforms as ones with features such as push notifications and infinite scrolling, which loads content as the user scrolls down, eliminating the need to click to a next page. Those features have had an “devastating effect” on the mental health of children, Renner said.
He predicted an imminent legal challenge from NetChoice, a tech industry trade group that has filed lawsuits in other states against similar measures and has opposed Florida’s.
In a statement shared shortly after the signing, the group called the restrictions unconstitutional.
“An unconstitutional law will protect exactly zero Floridians. HB 3 is also bad policy because of the data collection on Floridians by online services it will in effect require. This will put their private data at risk of breach,” said Carl Szabo, NetChoice’s vice president and general counsel.
“HB 3 forces Floridians to hand over sensitive personal information to websites or lose their access to critical information channels,” he continued. “This infringes on Floridians’ First Amendment rights to share and access speech online.”
This reporting content is supported by a partnership with Freedom Forum and Journalism Funding Partners. USA TODAY Network-Florida First Amendment reporter Douglas Soule can be reached at DSoule@gannett.com.
Again Ten Bears has done it. He posts a longish list of links many of which interest me, and I wander down them. All are interesting to different people, to me only some. But sadly today before I realized I also wanted to share some of them, I closed the tabs. But I did mange to reopen a few. I really recommend everyone check out his blog, you might not like everything he posts but so many have so much information that you can get lost in them. For me who always feel rushed for time … Bad Ten Bears, but thank you. You do give me a lot of information to consider. Below I will put the few links I read / clicked on a felt were really worth reading but remember they were not the only ones I read, they were only the ones I could quickly recall. Hugs. Scottie
The woman behind the libs of TikTok is a rather unintelligent fundamentalist religious person who revels in her new fame and the attention she receives. But as the people fight back against her and her demands to remove all the LGBTQ+ from society and schools along with the bad press coming from people acting on her hate screeds she has lost her shine, fame, and attention she craves. So on to the next target that again has nothing to do with children and all to do with consenting adults. Trying to control the sex lives of others is nothing new for these people. Anything they don’t like or do, then no one should be allowed to do it. What a mockery of the land of the free. Hugs. Scottie
TW: mention of b_mb threats, violence in schools, bullying (incl. incidents that lead to loss of life), homophobia, transphobia and doxxing
Thank you Tengrain for another wonderful post that puts the cards on the table and shows who holds the chips. But this one paragraph is to me everything the republican maga fundamentalist Christian right wants to do. Hugs. Scottie
If you happen to be a kid in Floriduh, there’s so many ways this jamoke is taking away your ability to learn about the world around you, from banning books, to expressly banning LGBTQ information, to now banning social media. It’s almost like Bootsie is afraid of what you might learn on your own.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Leader Jeffries: That was an embarrassment from Republicans last night. Marjorie Taylor Greene shows up in campaign paraphernalia. And then these people want to lecture Joe Biden because he delivered a strong and forceful speech? MAGA wants to lecture us on decorum? Get lost pic.twitter.com/Bm2WB3CJBp
Off topic Donnie Dementia Watch: During last night’s SOTU, Donnie was posting up a storm on his shitty social media ripoff site and demanded to know why Nancy Pelosi wasn’t sitting behind President Biden, apparently having forgotten she’s no longer Speaker nor Dem Minority Leader.
Breaking my usual no-Xitter rule to post proof:
WHAT HAPPENED TO NANCY?
Donald Trump Truth Social 10:33 PM EST 3/07/24
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) March 8, 2024
So a homeless person who has no money and perhaps even mental illness is going to get a permit? Yeah right. Now, if they don’t get a permit then what? Fine them? They have no money. Jail them? For what? Being poor in a Plutocracy.
What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?
Narrator: There will be no permits available or issued.
The recently increased the state line item for private jails.
Florida has privatized prisons. They make money on every person they incarcerate. And like any business, they are incentivized to find ways to bring in more customers.
Trump’s classless, arrogant, disrespectful bullying of Americans with disabilities presents an opportunity to highlight how @JoeBiden overcame his lifelong stuttering issue.
So, that dramatic sex trafficking story that Republican Senator Katie Britt told in her creepy kitchen table speech actually took place 20 years ago — during the Republican Bush administration. And it took place in Mexico. Katie Britt is not only a bad actor. She’s a liar. https://t.co/XJ29MrDp2U
"None of this happened during… Biden’s administration, nor does it appear to have anything to do with his policies… But that didn’t stop the first-term senator from strongly implying that the president could have somehow prevented it from happening" https://t.co/JDlY4iLgwb
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 7, 2024
A trove of documents obtained by TPM reveal the inner workings of the Society for American Civic Renewal, a men-only, Christian-only group of influential right-wingers that aims to recruit members for an "aligned future regime." https://t.co/a3UtPYfWYr
I am so tired right now having not slept last night, but I wanted to post this as I felt it was important. This is a direct diversion of every search to the Republican agenda presenting in the best most convincing light. Pushing project 2025. So much for a neutral only the facts’ news AI media. Seriously a bot designed to push pro-fundamentalist republican anti-choice regressive view points? Is it deliberate? We people that love our democracy and progressive country better get engaged and vote, or we lose it all. The wealthy owner class wants us to return to the guided age, when only businesses had a say, government had no power, and workers were slaves to be worked to death for profit. Hugs. Scottie
Microsoft’s A.I. bot copilot has been produced some strange results lately that make it seem like it may have been trained by alt right bros.
Douglas Soule
USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida
