It would give the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like, with President Trump himself saying 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.

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.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
      416·
      2 个月前

      Ok so 2 people out of 535 in Republican-controlled Congress voted against it, how is it accurate to say “Democrats pushed it through”?

      • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
        16·
        2 个月前

        Maybe they should trying being the OPPOSITION PARTY for once in their miserable careers.

      • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
        131·
        2 个月前

        I see how you got confused, let’s try rephrasing it to “passed with unanimous democratic support”.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        10·
        2 个月前

        The house bill was sponsored by a Pennsylvania Democrat and a Florida Republican.

        Amy Klobuchar and Ted Cruz introduced the Senate version.

        It’s bipartisan and criticism is levelled at the opposition for doing bipartisanship: the chronic problematic condition the Democrats put themselves into while in the minority.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
        8·
        2 个月前

        In what world is 2 votes against 400 making any noise? That is 0.5%, democrats surely make up far more than that.

        So a majority of democrats voted for this.

        They pushed it through.

        • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          7·
          2 个月前

          Every single democrat who voted, voted yes. The other democrats just refused to vote, instead of voting against it.

          The funny thing is, I seem to recall every single democrat on Lemmy saying right after the election what not voting against Trump was no different than voting for him. Wonder when that changed.

          • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
            4·
            2 个月前

            They’re still saying that, however now it means don’t be critical of do nothing democrats. Really thinking .world is redditizing unfortunately

        • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
          12·
          2 个月前

          My point is that it’s very odd to focus on the Democrats specifically when Republicans brought the bills up for a vote, and Republicans also basically unanimously voted for it…more Republicans voted for it than Democrats, and a Republican president is signing the bill.

          Republicans pushed it through, Democrats voted for it also. You are allowed to criticize either party for voting for it, but you are being inaccurate if you are saying the Democrats are disproportionately responsible for passage, as the term “pushed it through” means.

      • Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        2 个月前

        “Republican controlled” doesn’t mean they’re all Republican. It means they have a majority. 535 votes in favor essentially means unanimous support.