• Law Abiding VPN User@feddit.org
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    21 hours ago

    Ron Widen is cool, he was in favor of title 2 net neutrality, he’s against NSA spying and from what I understand he realizes that age verification is a cybersecurity risk to everyone

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      7 hours ago

      He also supports israel and as soon as last summer voted to send another shipment of assault rifles to Israeal that they have been handing out to settlers in the west bank.

      Wyden is not that good.

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      17 hours ago

      Ron Wyden co-authored Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in 1996, which protects internet platforms from being held liable for user-generated content. It’s a big reason that the internet exploded in popularity. We may need to revisit and increase regulation since seeing what social media became, but he’s had a pretty great track record.

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            Dont worry, he came back the day after his sloth and cowardess became an international news story and handed out bottled water from a pickup truck, instead of coordinating with the state/fed/volunteer orgs to actually help people.

            Those dozens of bottle of water surely fixed everything.

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            17 hours ago

            Are we sure? Has anyone actually checked to make sure he isn’t a lizardman from inside the hollow Earth, all dressed up in a rubber human suit? I mean, sure, he isn’t an LLM, but there are so many other possibilities!

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          Then why does he support the most pro censorship regime in US history? He doesn’t support free speech. He supports fascist speech. He’s an American traitor, along with the rest of that regime.

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        19 hours ago

        If he’s working with Ron Widen it means Ted Cruz has the correct position on free speech.

        Do you have any idea how many people on the internet make fun of Ted Cruz? Have you ever heard him say those people should be banned or censored?

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          6 hours ago

          Raphael Cruz has a very obvious shame and humiliation kink, why would he complain? He gets to use the public to get his rocks.

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          17 hours ago

          I guess a broken clock and all that.

          Iirc he was also against the bullshit PMTA process the FDA shoved on the vaping industry (the process is responsible for the popularity of disposables).

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            14 hours ago

            it’s better to find common ground with your peers and then to work with them to make life better for everyone.

            If Ted Cruz is in favor of free speech, so you can work with him on free speech issues to help everyone of all colors and creeds

            And he really is in favor of free speech. He’s never tried to shut down any of his critics. People send him all kinds of nasty things on twitter and he doesn’t even block any of them.

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              Why would he block it, he gets off on it. He’s got this same little grin every time he’s confronted about an awful thing he did.

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        20 hours ago

        You mean the senator in the state that puts destructive as shit data centres wherever and is helping palantir? Yeah he’s super anti censorship.