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Folks wanted regulation, this is the regulation. Turns out leaving a bunch of oldies to regulate a highly dynamic industry isn’t going to go well.

Earn it has bipartisan support. Its passing is inevitable sadly.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/353...

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>Its passing is inevitable sadly.

That's a defeatist view.

It is quite certainly not inevitable. It can be stopped through public outrage.

There’s been outrage on this for decades and it never goes away. In fact it’s worse than ever thanks to patriot act and similar

That's the big problem with legislation like this: They can just re-introduce it every year until it passes, and opponents have to keep fighting it every time. A bill's supporters only have to sneak it through once--its opponents have to defeat it every time.

Yes, but other than techies most people find it reasonable.

Most people have not read the bill nor thought about what it means. Maybe people react positively to leading questions about protecting childing and ensuring safety but that is a different matter entirely.

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