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No. Their goal is to protect the children. They don't understand technology and do not care how many enterprises are destroyed by their clumsy fumbling. Stop trying to reframe stupidity as conspiracy.

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"Conspiracy" makes it sound like the US government hasn't been building the largest spying apparatus in history over the past 2 decades. Reality says otherwise.

And Feinstein has always been on the side of surveillance, except of course when she is affected:

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/13/politics/feinstein-cia-sn...

If Congress were serious about "protecting children", there are many other things they would do before focusing on the boogeyman of online pedophilia. I already mentioned child health care in another comment; you could also think of social/public housing for destitute parents of children; food security, which _is_ a problem in the US (and the programs are being cut); minimum wage increase; free child-care for working parents etc.

Has Senator Feinstein been promoting any of this?

Those are all massively expensive ideas, EARN it isnt. Just because these senators haven't been able to enact some of your other ideas doesn't mean they aren't serious about protecting children. At least some of the senators behind EARN it are in favor of expanding social welfare programs [0] - its just politically difficult to get traction on new laws with huge costs attached to them.

[0] https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/

1. Diane Feinstein isn't in favor of those things, and this is who we're talking about.

2. The party platform? Really? After the last primary cycle, Sanders was allowed influence over that document, improving it somewhat. Are party elected officials bound by it? was Clinton? Is Biden?

2. "In favor" for a Senator or Congressperson must mean: Propose it, speak about in in the Senate, speak about it in the media, support civic organizations campaigning for it, and don't be dependent on donors who want it not to happen.

They have made it abundantly clear that they don't give a fuck about the children in so many ways it isn't funny. They are more willing to give free lunch to contractors than schoolchildren.

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