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  • On the post: How The EARN IT Act Is Significantly More Dangerous Than FOSTA

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2022 @ 12:12pm

    Re: Re:

    It’s an honor to speak to you, Mr. Masnick. I decided to go on and researched one of EARN IT’s main sponsors, the NCOSE. What I found was troubling. These aren’t confirmations that NCOSE is anti-lgbt, but strong hints of it. Mainly through the history of its current president. Apparently the current president, Patrick Trueman, was the director of affairs for the American Family Association and a legal counsel on the Family Research Council; both of these organizations has histories spreading hateful rhetoric and are listed as Anti-LGBT hate groups by the SPLC. Looking at his Twitter, he has endorsed stories written by far-right newspapers such as Breitbart news, CNC, and AMgreatness, which has articles like this: https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/29/very-fine-people/. This confirms that the extreme mindset that Trueman hasn’t changed and might support EARN IT to go after LGBT communities. I have a prevailing theory that if NCOSE is exposed for its shady history of its current leader, that it might cause fractures within EARN IT’s co-sponsors, potentially slowing down the passage of the bill.
    Again this is theorization, but more or less, food for thought.

  • On the post: How The EARN IT Act Is Significantly More Dangerous Than FOSTA

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2022 @ 12:12pm

    Re: Re:

    It’s an honor to speak to you, Mr. Masnick. I decided to go on and researched one of EARN IT’s main sponsors, the NCOSE. What I found was troubling. These aren’t confirmations that NCOSE is anti-lgbt, but strong hints of it. Mainly through the history of its current president. Apparently the current president, Patrick Trueman, was the director of affairs for the American Family Association and a legal counsel on the Family Research Council; both of these organizations has histories spreading hateful rhetoric and are listed as Anti-LGBT hate groups by the SPLC. Looking at his Twitter, he has endorsed stories written by far-right newspapers such as Breitbart news, CNC, and AMgreatness, which has articles like this: https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/29/very-fine-people/. This confirms that the extreme mindset that Trueman hasn’t changed and might support EARN IT to go after LGBT communities. I have a prevailing theory that if NCOSE is exposed for its shady history of its current leader, that it might cause fractures within EARN IT’s co-sponsors, potentially slowing down the passage of the bill. Again this is theorization, but more or less, food for thought.

  • On the post: How The EARN IT Act Is Significantly More Dangerous Than FOSTA

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2022 @ 10:57pm

    Re: It’s going to pass

    ???? Jesus, That was… needlessly hateful. What the fuck are you even talking about? Are you hungry? Do you need a kit-Kat? You do know that you’re not you when you’re hungry.

  • On the post: How The EARN IT Act Is Significantly More Dangerous Than FOSTA

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2022 @ 10:13am

    Well the good news was that Earn it didn’t get the time to be marked up yesterday, so that’ll give at least another week to make more racket. Unfortunately, Earn it still has the favor of the Senate. With 19 co-sponsors, this is going to be an exceptionally difficult uphill battle to fight.

    With all of these odds against us, I say don’t give up. If you choose to surrender, you enable Earn It’s passage. But if we choose to fight, there could be a chance to kill Earn It. We have the people, the minds, the voices, and even the ears to do it. SOPA had similar traction, but with a quick, massively successful grassroots effort, forced its own sponsor to rescind the bill. Even if we lose, we go down swinging. And if Earn it does pass and causes the tremendous damage around the internet, we’d be there and say: “Told ya so.”

    There is still room for cautious optimism, even in seemingly overwhelming odds.

  • On the post: Senator Wyden: EARN IT Will Make Children Less Safe

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2022 @ 12:48pm

    Oh jeez, I don’t know who to believe more. It’s either between:

    The clueless moral shill who is puppeteered by a cult of sexless prudes who might be a hate group against the LGBT community and his sole contribution are bills that are the embodiment of “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

    Or

    One of the two Senators who literally laid down the legal foundations of the internet.

    I dunno it’s such a close call. ????

  • On the post: Senate's New EARN IT Bill Will Make Child Exploitation Problem Worse, Not Better, And Still Attacks Encryption

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2022 @ 04:31am

    Re: If you're going to lose make them work for it

    Well said.

  • On the post: Senate's New EARN IT Bill Will Make Child Exploitation Problem Worse, Not Better, And Still Attacks Encryption

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2022 @ 12:46pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    It has to go through the legislative process. If they’re lucky, there might be a chance of this being rush through. Thankfully the votes around Biden’s nominees would slow down the bill, but I don’t know for how long. Fingers crossed.

  • On the post: Senate's New EARN IT Bill Will Make Child Exploitation Problem Worse, Not Better, And Still Attacks Encryption

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2022 @ 12:32pm

    Re:

    The Earn It Act already has 19 co-sponsors in the senate: 10 Republicans, 9 Democrats. This might make it easier for the bill to pass in the near future. This will take a lot of strength to overcome this monster this time around. It’s going to be an uphill battle, but remember SOPA had 12 co-sponsors and it failed.

  • On the post: Senate's New EARN IT Bill Will Make Child Exploitation Problem Worse, Not Better, And Still Attacks Encryption

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2022 @ 11:27am

    I am just tired (of Blumenthal’s “Think of the Children” S

    I’m so sick of trying to help protect the internet from dying by a thousand cuts constantly. It’s been emotionally draining and negative on my mental state. And it’s because of these seemingly endless waves of moral panicking, generated by people like Blumenthal.

    I think Blumenthal is more punchable than Manchin and Sinema, combined. Because of one thing: Blumenthal is wholeheartedly fake. He has the potential to be better than this, but he never does. He surrounds himself with fake moralizing campaigns and bad faith laws that do more harm than good to make it seem like he’s a paragon. It’s all about presentation, all ego, no substance.

    I’m well aware that a lot of politicians are about perception, but Blumenthal takes it a whole, illogical new level. He wants to make it seem like he’s a paragon, but doesn’t think of the consequences. If he actually wanted to make things better, he shouldn’t have revived the Earn It act. Hell, he shouldn’t have been plastering his name on the bill in the first place.

    If he’s supposed to be a Democrat, then he doesn’t represent me.

  • On the post: Governor Inslee Wants To Jail Politicians Who Lie? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2022 @ 10:58am

    Inslee: “I’m going to arrest every politician that lies. Proceeds to throw himself into jail.

  • On the post: Nintendo Sics Lawyers To Take Down Fan-Made FPS 'Pokemon' Game Footage

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2022 @ 05:11pm

    Honestly, every time I hear about Nintendo slip loose the hounds of war on fan creations, I envision that one scene from the Simpsons Movie when Mr. Burns summoned the hounds to chase out civilians.

    Nintendo, Nintendon’t treat your fans this way.

  • On the post: House Introduces 'Innovation' Act That Will Kill Innovation

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2022 @ 10:16am

    Pointless tangent here, but why on God’s good graces would you want to rename the “Endless Frontier bill” into a hideously boring name like COMPETE? That original name is so badass that 18 Republican senators joined in and agreed. CUM-PETE sounds like it wants to regulate the Compost overlords.

  • On the post: House Introduces 'Innovation' Act That Will Kill Innovation

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2022 @ 10:06am

    But Mike, the proposal is nearly 3,000 pages long. Therefore that means that this bill is good by default. Because quantity over quality. ????

  • On the post: New Bill Claims To Ban 'Surveillance Advertising,' But Doesn't Actually Do It

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2022 @ 09:39am

    Never underestimate the power of proofreading. It can save lifes.

  • On the post: [UPDATE] Elizabeth Warren Is NOT Cosponsoring A Bill To Repeal 230

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2022 @ 02:59pm

    Re: ????‍♂️ Where to start?

    This is also good argument against ending fillbusters and procedural hold. How? What does this have to do with this article about Section 230? Plus this argument is rendered redundant due to the article’s changed context. But even then, your argument would still be shallow under the original article.

    • Otherwise, SOPA would have become law 10 years ago*
    Except the fillibuster didn’t kill SOPA, hell it didn’t even reach either floor. SOPA died in the House Judiciary the moment the Great Blackout sapped all momentum in the bill’s passage. The filibuster had nothing to do with SOPA’s downfall and is just there to enable minority rule and make it impossible for necessary and helpful legislation to occur. Also Section 230 wouldn’t be affected under SOPA, it’s the DMCA that would. That is why Sinema and Manchin are to be commended to resisting attempts to end the fillibuster Ah yes, commend them for exing the desperately needed Voting rights and a mega-bill designed to improve welfare and childhood poverty. Those two greedbags shouldn’t be commended for anything.
    • Ending the fillibuster could be disastrus for the Internet*
    Killing the filibuster might make passage of SOPA-esque bills easier, but it also for bills that help people. It’s a double-edged sword situation. Lastly, don’t mean to be petty, it’s “disastrous;” Not “ disastrus.”

  • On the post: [UPDATE] Elizabeth Warren Is NOT Cosponsoring A Bill To Repeal 230

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2022 @ 01:27pm

    Re: Aligned Interests

    Koby… why are you like this? The public is constantly put in the dark about this kind of thing. It’s not that the public have an low opinion on Section 230. It’s only because a minority of people actually know of Section 230’s existence. The beautiful simplicity of Section 230 is buried by pointless “debates” about whether toast should be buttered side up or down and yet the solution is always the same Nuclear Option. And that notion is always perpetuated by pretentious gaslighters that pretend that they know better, but don’t. People like Josh Hawley, Bluthmenthal, and you.

  • On the post: [UPDATE] Elizabeth Warren Is NOT Cosponsoring A Bill To Repeal 230

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2022 @ 11:01am

    Honestly this clip sums it up beautifully:
    https://youtu.be/PcR_wdAMkOs

  • On the post: How To Destroy Innovation And Competition: Putting SHOP SAFE Act Into Innovation And Competition Act

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2022 @ 12:54am

    Re: Re: Re: This doesn’t make sense politically

    That’s the thing, it’s just that: rumors. Doesn’t mean that they aren’t going to try to put in the Shop Safe Act, but falling short to include it isn’t out of the realm of possibility either. The EFA isn’t a high priority right now and we don’t know when there will be a date for furthering the bill. Though the strong traction of IP reform is the only reason why it won’t be impossible.

  • On the post: How To Destroy Innovation And Competition: Putting SHOP SAFE Act Into Innovation And Competition Act

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2022 @ 02:07pm

    Re: Re: This doesn’t make sense politically

    Let me rephrase that. In a scenario where the House does manage to put SHOP Safe Act and votes on a version of the Endless Frontier Act that includes that, wouldn’t the senate have to vote for that version of the EFA?

  • On the post: How To Destroy Innovation And Competition: Putting SHOP SAFE Act Into Innovation And Competition Act

    Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2022 @ 02:25pm

    I’m mentioning this because the EFA already passed through the senate before Shop Safe is being considered. 68-32. Congress is obligated to debate laws and versions introduced by House and Senate. I’m just mentioning a what-if scenario.

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