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| Married 10 Yrs. | ✝ | 32 | Just call me Viral. Despite my opinions possibly being different, still feel free to speak to me if you need someone to talk to. I can cast views aside and provide a listening ear, especially if you need help. - I'm no professional, and I'll never claim to be, but I will give you a listening ear. That's sometimes all we need.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

"Women are only seen for their bodies. Men can't understand what it's like to be objectified!"

How men are treated with no public outrage:

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

And a reminder that the Twilight werewolf boy actor was an actual minor at that point. All the middle aged women thirsting over a child was treated differently than if it had been men and a teenage girl actor.

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

It's crazy how little it is pointed out that an actual teenager was getting shamelessly sexualized in the Twilight movies and no one ever made any sort of peep about it at the time that they came out. It'd have been fine if an adult male actor had portrayed him, but this was just a boy. This is on the same level as what happened to Brooke Shields and Drew Barrymore in their teen years, but at least those were more controversial, although for the wrong reasons, but still.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

[catboypalug]

me: I should really confront my issues and stop feeling so nervous at the thought of talking to women. I mean it's not like they see me as a violent monster *"Bear vs. Man" happens* me: Oh. Guess I'll go back into my cave then

[cainpillers]

I don't know if it's misandry. I am not mad at the women here. It's just sad that this is our reality. I feel like it's a pity that this is what we caused them to feel. It reminds me of when somebody calls you a bad person, there is no need to argue with them about their perception of you, it's bad that you caused a person to feel that about you, right? It bums me out :(

[murkycat]

Saying that a randomly selected man is more dangerous than a random wild animal is pretty blatant misandry. It's also completely idiotic. If two human beings were lost in a forest and ran into each other, regardless of their genders they'd probably work together to find a way back to civilization. If you're lost in a forest and you run into a bear, the bear is not going to be any help. If you bother it, or if it's hungry, it will eat you. You'd have to be extremely sexist, or maybe just misanthropic, to seriously trust a random apex predator over a random fellow human. SECONDLY: Is that seriously how you react when someone calls you a bad person? If you're unsure what you did to wrong someone, you should ASK them. However, that kind of exchange is impossible if someone is throwing blame at an entire gender or an entire ethnicity or nationality. If someone hates all men because of a traumatic experience they had with a man, they are projecting that bad experience onto a ton of people who were not involved in it, and are thus not guilty of it. Guilt is not something that applies to groups, it applies to individuals. "I feel like it's a pity that this is what we caused them to feel?" WE didn't do anything. I know for a fact that I as an individual have never done anything bad to a woman. Obviously I am aware that some other men have done bad things to women, and I am also aware that misandry is very normalized nowadays, so I am self conscious about being judged for things that I have never done, but that is not guilt. That is fear. That is knowledge that there are people out there who will see me as a male but not as a human, and will treat me accordingly. You don't need to feel guilty for the crimes of any man other than yourself. Anyone who tells you otherwise is being a bigot.

[aikoiya]

^^^^

THIS!! Correct!

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

Something tells me these women's responses to a man asking if he did anything wrong would be either the cold shoulder or a sarcastic "figure it out yourself, genius." Neither of which are conducive to letting the guy know what he did wrong.

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

Or they'd just point to rape and domestic abuse statistics, and expect you not to have an issue with the implication that all men are rapists/domestic abusers, and that you specifically are one just cuz you have an issue with their sexism.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

See normally the response that you get whenever you ask what you did wrong is not that you did anything wrong. It is "the fact that your biological sex has committed to the worst atrocities known to man is why I should be afraid of you specifically. And you should apologize for the actions of literally all men everywhere all over the planet all the time because you're disgusting and evil" or the less wordy, "it's not my job to educate you on why I'm afraid of you".

And either instance it is quite literally just misandry. It is the fundamental Act of treating an entire group of people like a monolith who are no different from one another at all times. And blaming a very small minority of people, on their own personal beliefs and behaviors towards a majority.

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

Literally tho, there are billions of men, the number of rapes per year are typically at the largest end a few thousand.

And most of that is by repeat offenders.

So it's literally .000000001 of men who are dangerous like this, and the rest are still treated like they are just as dangerous simply for being men.

It is 100% misandry. There is no debate to be had on this. XD blaming the majority for the overwhelming minority does is pure bigotry and discrimination.

[calyxmore-deactivated20241215]

Mass majority of rapists and abusers are male, stop crying over “the evil misandrists” and campaign for men to stop being the primary culprits of violence against women and maybe there’ll be no need for being cautious around men, the fact that y’all more mad at women for not wanting to be with men in a forest than being mad at the men who are the reason these debates happen shows exactly why some women will choose the bear lmao

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

The vast VAST majority of men do not harm women in any way, it is untrue that most abusers are men (it's far more likely to be equal), and I can be pissed all I want that other women are sexist cunts who dehumanize men.

There is no campaign that needs to happen either. XD cuz again, most men do not hurt women. That is a hard undeniable fact. If you think fearing an entire sex because of a minority and subsequently treating them poorly because of that fear is logical or at all okay, then you're one of the sexists we're referring to.

[calyxmore-deactivated20241215]

Yeah, the mast majority of men aren’t harmful. But the majority of abusers of women are men. Cope and seethe. Also imagine as a woman calling other women who would choose the bear over men sexist cunts dehumanizing men lmao y’all really making it easy for radfems to gain more popularity and support on this site when y’all this pressed over basic facts and are pretty much arguing for not even feminists but the average women to not have reasonable criticisms and observations on male violence against women else they’re an evil misandrist enjoying the torment of men.

Misogyny girls and women are facing globally include FGM, child marriage, honor killing, and either forced selective abortion or being denied access to abortions. There’s genuine issues regarding men such as sexual assault and domestic violence they face being seen as not real or comedic, and backlash non-straight and non-cis men receive for their approach to gender norms. And definitely extreme femcels on here who wrongfully treat these men as liars or deserving of it.

But the mass majority of the perpetrators of this behavior men face…are other men. And the mass majority of “misandry” cried about on this site is women not wanting their boundaries and feelings to be put to the side to coddle men.

Cope, seethe, mald.

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

It's not a "basic fact." Men are NOT more dangerous than a bear. It is dehumanization when you try to say such.

Dehumanization is not "wanting your boundaries and feelings to not be put aside to coddle men." Your irrational fear of all men should not be treated like it's rational.

LOVE tho that the examples you bring up as "misogyny women face globally" is stuff 99% of women don't experience, and fucking abortions bans. XD which aren't even denied in America, they're just not allowed after a certain point in the pregnancy.

Love even more that your argument is literally just "cope and seethe." Almost like you can't effectively argue that bigotry is okay because it's women who do it or something.

[takashi0]

peebs holy shit, between being a rabid jew hater in denial AND a psychotic Radfem how have you not blocked this fucking psycho bitch already?

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

I have a problem with blocking bigots. XD It's been this way for years.

[syabm]

Yeah, the mast majority of men aren’t harmful. But the majority of abusers of women are men.

That's just statistics. Lesbians and bisexuals are the vast minority of women.

Of course, I've seen the unsupported claim that lesbian relationships are the most likely gender combination to be abuse.

Also, you wanna guess who the majority of abusers of men are? And also kids?

Also imagine as a woman calling other women who would choose the bear over men sexist cunts dehumanizing men

Imagine not being able to come up with any actual factual criticism of that viewpoint, so you have to sneer at it and make up reasons why other women made the choice.

Fun fact; members of Team Bear keep trying to explain why Team Bear is a thing, and they're always very certain, and they're always contradicting someone else on Team Bear who tried to explain the "reason".

lmao y’all really making it easy for radfems to gain more popularity and support on this site when y’all this pressed over basic facts and are pretty much arguing for not even feminists but the average women to not have reasonable criticisms and observations on male violence against women else they’re an evil misandrist enjoying the torment of men.

The average person - male or female - would not see "I am more afraid of a random man than a very dangerous wild animal" as a reasonable position.

…I hope.

Also, for someone claiming to be reasonable, you actually sound pretty pissed. Just trying to cover it up with mockery, as people often do.

Misogyny girls and women are facing globally include […]

Oh boy, here comes the Gish Gallop.

FGM,

And flat on your face, right out of the gate. FGM is usually arranged and performed by women, including the girl's mother.

It's also a lot less common than, say, male circumcision. Which is usually done with the permission of both parents, and often by male or female doctors.

[luvtonique]

I realized something this morning.

This is probably gonna be a long post. (Edit, yep)

I'm a pretty fairly public figure on the internet, and I very regularly interact with a huge amount of people. From YouTube Comments to Discord to Tumblr Asks/Comments to Newgrounds Reviews to MMO Chat to Mic-Chat on Games to Twitch Chat to Stream Chat, blah blah blah.

I've, for years now, over a decade (hell over two decades) talked to probably thousands of people, and have been able to get a gauge on a pretty safe to say "average" of collective human intelligence on the internet.

I've come to realize that not everybody has that kind of experience talking to people online as I do. I've talked to literally thousands, probably near ten thousand, people online in my life.

This is a staggeringly high number and puts me in an outlier position among the rest of you, who likely have only interacted with a double digit number of people online in your life.

Now that you have that information in mind, here's what I realized this morning.

I realized that the reason I don't listen to people, ESPECIALLY when it comes to politics, is because I have learned through talking to all these people that fucking nobody knows what they're fucking goddamn talking about.

I study a lot of things in my spare time, and history is a huge one that I study. I very regularly read and listen to multiple sources talking about historic events, and I make sure to look at as many sources as possible, sometimes including reading encyclopedias in my own home that we've owned for like 40 years.

I cross-reference all of these things and paint a picture of the most likely truths through various means.

Why's that important? Because sometimes a 14 year old on Twitter, literally nearly less than a third my age, will occasionally come along telling me that I'm wrong. Not about history necessarily, but about some opinion that I have based on my own experience and my own knowledge that I've researched myself.

I usually ask them where they got their information, and I'm met with boldfaced idiocy. Completely braindead shit like "180,000 people said it on Twitter," or they link me a Tumblr post with 100k notes, or they say "It's common knowledge," (which is the biggest red flag of them all because not only does it prove they have no evidence to back up what they're saying, but as this post will go on to explain, "common knowledge" is quite literally the worst source of information on anything. People commonly think the earth is flat and that Scientology is real. People commonly think that walking under a ladder or breaking a mirror gives you bad luck. People commonly think that naturally blue food exists.)

In my life I have met thousands of people, and THOUSANDS of them are fucking idiots who very very smugly state completely incorrect knowledge. Earlier today someone tried to tell me that the creators of Beat Saber never sold the company to Facebook, and I showed them proof and they went silent for 3 hours and then went "Yeah so what, Facebook is still a good company" and I wanted to beat my head against the desk.

The internet is full of people who are fascinatingly ignorant. I'm not calling myself "better" or "smarter" than anyone here, I'm just saying that I have learned better than most people that people on the internet are not, and never fucking will be, a good source of information. I don't care if they're your best fucking friend, the coin-toss of them knowing what they're talking about or actually having the facts is so heavily weighted against them, it's seriously like a 98% chance they have no fucking clue what they're talking about.

I urge everyone to take a moment and realize that the internet is, in fact, a good place to find information and do research, but PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET, especially MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA, are NOT SMART PEOPLE AND ARE NOT GOOD SOURCES FOR YOUR INFORMATION.

These are angry, smug, annoying little idiots who are likely 14 years old with a 1st grade reading comprehension who aspires to be a TikTok content creator as a career, and under no fucking circumstance should you ever, ever, EVER listen to any social, financial, religious, gendered, medical or political advice they give.

The world has gotten vastly out of control with how much people think "A lot of people agree with me" is a good enough reason to solidify your opinions. "A lot of people agree" is the biggest red flag ever, because people on the fucking internet are complete fucking idiots, I'm sorry, but I'm someone with far more experience talking to people on the internet than literally any of you reading this. I talk to people on the internet as a career and have been doing this for longer than most of you reading this have been alive.

So what's the point of this? What's the take-away?

The take-away is that I'm saddened by how many people will attack each other vehemently, cut off friends and family members, label people as toxic or problematic, jump to conclusions, etc. based on complete and utter misinformation spouted to them by people who have never once in their entire life actually looked up what the fuck they're talking about. They treat random strangers on Twitter as "experts" because that person is well articulated or put together a YouTube video with really good editing that's softly spoken by a British accent guy and has scary music whenever some "evil" person is on the screen.

The take-away is that people, like yourself (don't you dare try to deny it) will just believe whatever they read on social media, or whatever their Discord friend-group is talking about, because they are living in a complete falsehood that people on the internet know better than they do.

You are not incapable of doing your own research. You are not incapable of finding the truth. You are not stupid. Just do your own research, look into things yourself, cross-reference, use the scientific method, go to a library, read books, for fuck sake please adopt the basic social skill of "If someone says it on the internet it is most likely not true and I should look into it myself."

Because the current state of people is monstrous.

Y'all get so fucking mad about things that are just plain not true, and you revolve your entire life around things you were told by complete idiots and/or children on Twitter and other social media websites.

Stop.

Look at yourself, look at how angry you get about things, and consider that there may be a possibility that anger stems from a complete lack of any foundation or truth in your own beliefs.

Consider the almost 100% guaranteed possibility that you have been blatantly lied to by people who have no fucking idea what they're talking about, and that you are violently upholding standards that are incorrect because you have placed trust in the word of untrustworthy people.

Look up confirmation bias, read about it.

Look up manipulation tactics, read about it.

Look up "Plato's Republic" and read about it.

Absolutely, under no circumstances, should you ever, EVER, form your social or religious or political or financial or gendered or sexual etc. opinions based on SHIT YOU READ ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

And while we're here, don't listen to the news either. They're just a bunch of parrots saying what needs to be said to get you all fighting with each other so that the government can fuck things up while you're distracted. Do your own research, check multiple sources, don't consider social media or regular media to be a 'source,' get every bit of information from every angle, and for fuck sake, stop attacking people for disagreeing with you when you, yourself, only believe what you believe because your friend group believes it and you know that if you disagree with your friend group they'll all attack you so you'd rather be on their side, which only further proves my point that y'all need to fucking chill.

"Democracy will never work. If 3 medical experts tell you that you must eat a ginger root to cure your ailments, but 100,000 idiots with no medical experience tell you otherwise, you're more likely to believe the 100,000 idiots. They are louder, there are more of them, and you will gamble on the hope that among those 100,000 idiots, there must be more than 3 medical experts. The voice of the ignorant will always drown out the voice of the educated."

-Plato's Republic, 375BCE (Paraphrased)

"I can't believe Jay just called us all idiots and expects us to listen to him"

-Someone in the comments of this (It's gonna happen)

PS: If you looked up "Naturally Blue Food," and found out it does in fact not exist, good for you for doing your own research!

[tigerdude51087]

[versegm]

Arrrgh I already complained about it but man. Fucking hate how weird people are when it comes to sexuality in art. "Ohhh this only exists because the writer was horny it can't possibly have anything deep to say" fucking imagine if we applied it to other emotions. Sorry Antigones can't possibly be about anything meaningful the writer was clearly just sad. Hamlet isn't a good or interesting play actually it was just Shakespeare being angry.

[takashi0]

#To be fair I've seen what angry writing can do to a work. Or at least what having a hate boner can do to it#Tho that mainly applies to how you handle such emotion in the work#There is not a more valid reason for sex in a work of fiction than 'i was horny'.#The least valid reason leans more towards 'sex sells'. Which is what a lot of media companies love doing to make a quick buck.

[capitalism-and-analytics]

What’s your thoughts on the Supreme Courts decision on allowing that woman to ban Gay people from her business?

Once again, I have no clue on the legality of their decision, but from a moral perspective, I do not think people should be forced to provide services or labor for things they do not agree with. This is true on both sides of this scenario: a Gay website designer should not have to design a website that is pro-Christian nor should a Christian website designer have to design a website that they believe violates their religious beliefs.

Additionally, I am unsure as to why anyone would want to support a business that openly is against them. This is some wild "LET ME SUPPORT MY ENEMY!" type stuff.

[honeyriot]

Pro fascism account

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[recess-is-in]

Yeah i absolutely love that they called the person who doesn't believe in forcing people to do things against their will the one being fascist.

You can't make this shit up.

[heatandapathy]

>Additionally, I am unsure as to why anyone would want to support a business that openly is against them. This is some wild "LET ME SUPPORT MY ENEMY!" type stuff.

That part needed emphasized

[pennywise-fucker]

You know you're talking to someone with an extreme bias when you say "I don't think we should talk politics" and their response is to accuse you of supporting the other side 🥴

No, both sides fcking suck and are full of idiots, leave me alone

[unsolids-your-snake]

And whatever "side" you may or may not be on, nobody fucking owes you a political discussion. Sheesh

[takashi0]

Hey guess what if your response to "I don't wanna talk politics" is to throw a tantrum and accuse them of being part of your enemies, chances are you are going to drive them into to the side of your enemy by being a nosy judgemental prick.

[harassmentsucks]

tiktok antis stalking, doxxing and death threat

[harassmentsucks]

more stalking and threats

[bad-antiship-posts]

"I'm a minor btw"

[missbaphomet]

What the hell? I have several of LunaSol's enamel pins, what the hell are they accusing her of

[shrimpmandan]

Literally just trying to physically attack/kill her because she ships incest I think, something to that effect

[missbaphomet]

Bruh really? Imagine if that energy went towards, like. Actual awareness and support for real victims and not curvy lines and pretty colors

[clinically-not-straight]

Googled it. Not even incest. Two genshin characters. One is blood to a family, one of them got adopted into it, both of them are adult men and they don't like each other all too much.

[d1cks1e-st1x]

(iirc luna uses they/them now)

to my knowledge they don’t even personally ship those characters, they just made merch/ship art of them to spite ppl who were harassing shippers and the harassment and stalking they’ve experienced because of it is insane

[marril96]

Somebody please report this to authorities. This is horrific.

[fandomeldersintheirthirties]

“I would but my mom was with me”

<sarcasm> If antis are trying to guilt-trip proshippers into telling their parents and coworkers about “gross stuff they ship”, why are they afraid to show THEIR parents what they’re really like then? What are you afraid of antis? This is literally what you encourage! Why is tsuki.mikku so afraid to show how good of a person they are by “rightfuly" attacking a “gross shipper” in front of their mom? Mom would be proud!  </sarcasm>

[theliterarywolf]

(Not the fandom observation anon, but they pretty much summed up all my feelings)

Another thing that really shows the clash: The resurgence of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

I remember the fandom back when it originally came out (mid to late 2000s) there was a lot of porn of it, a lot of shipping, a lot of discussion/dissection of themes. The "new" fandom... Is very puritan, especially with the redemption of Zuko (who is still a teenager), while justifying a serial killer Hama because she was kidnapped in her youth. (Don't even get me started on people getting rabid over Zutara)

I don't know. It's a sad thing that fandom has become less of a playground where everyone stays in their own parts, and more of other kids stomping into our sandbox and demanding we give them our toys (even if we made them) and go away because... They deserve them for some reason.

They want all the benefits, but none of the "responsibility" that comes with the creative process.

And just think, anon!

Come 2025, when we get that time-skip AtLA movie, the discourse is going to start ALL OVER AGAIN!

[hazel2468]

People who like horror movies and games are freaks. "Oh but the gore isn't REAL!" yeah, well, it looks real. Why the hell are you engaging with the kind of content if you "supposedly" don't condone it in real life? Why are you watching torture porn if you don't condone actually torturing real people?

There's no difference between watching someone get tortured to death in a SAW film and watching an actual murder take place. It's all disgusting and ILLEGAL and anyone who watches or creates gore content is BASICALLY a murderer already. DNI you fucking criminal freaks!

[draculasstrawhat]

It’s not so much that my sarcasm detector is broken, it’s more This Fucking Website, y’know?

[hazel2468]

I know I made another post about it but reblogging that this is 100% not serious- I was pissed off by someone whining about how “gore is different than SEX!!” So this happened.

[visceralcoma]

the original sounds like something antis would totally write. it's way too realistic. holyshit.

and it's completely the argument made by certain christian groups about video games not that long ago.

[hazel2468]

See, I'm SO glad you brought up the video game thing because like... I think part of the reason the whole anti-shipping/anti-fiction movement bothers me SO MUCH is like...

I was fucking THERE for that. Like I was there for fandom-specific shit like the fucking downfall of FanFic.net but... I was also around for the "video games cause VIOLENCE!" thing and... I thought that was settled, at least on the side of things most of these young antis claims to be on.

Like. We've been there. We KNOW that fictional violence like video games and movies doesn't fucking cause people to be actually violent. We've been there. We've debated that. And we came out the other side going "yeah, there's no real evidence that shooter games are actually causing people to behave more violently, but there ARE a ton of other, real world things that have an impact, and let's look at all of that."

So it does drive me just a little bit nuts to see so many teens and younger adults like... Just jumping on the same fucking bandwagon as Republicans did when I was like. In grade school. The same bandwagon they've been on about anything queer since before I was born. The bandwagon they're on right fucking now trying to ban "morally wrong" content- aka anything alluding to sex ed or the existence of queer people.

We've settled this. And the logic applies across the board. Seeing something violent or taboo, or even seeing something good in media does not make you more inclined to do the thing. That isn't the way fiction and reality interact. Reading or watching something violent does not make you more likely to go out and do something violent.

[weirdchristmas]

This is my version of being a grumpy old man.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Where have all the anime AMVs gone, and where are all the Yu-Gi-Oh cards?

[a-really-big-cat]

Where’s the streetwise weeaboo to fight the rising odds?

[animenutcase]

Isn’t there a cosplayer upon a cardboard steed?

[liberalsarecool]

Billionaires have bigger character flaws. Friends don't let friends simp for billionaires.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

Liberals sure are generous with other people's money.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

And property, and kids, and safety, and lives....

[amkrii]

Does anyone actually have the math on this? Because I'm pretty certain that this country has somewhere over 332 million people while Musk has a net worth of 234.4 billion. Right now the housing average is 440k, supposedly apartments average 1k, with trailers going for 1.5.

Something tells me this won't add up in their favor.

[theodoretheninja]

$704.82 each. He could not pay for one month for the whole vou try to live, let alone change their lives.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

Math is racist.

[beardedmrbean]

Think about all of those empty rooms in the houses people own, we could let people live in those can't we?

Well maybe someone has a spare house or two they'd contribute

Anyone got a couple houses they could spare? Maybe there's some kind of group out there that has some real estate they could use for a good cause.

Anyone got any ideas?

How about a few million to help folks out, there's gotta be a few billionaires out there

Can't be them, they don't even hit the double digits with their billion dollar fortunes, they're basically paupers.

Guess there's nobody, maybe we should just keep harping on about musk then

[fullhalalalchemist]

URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 TUMBLR’S NSFW BAN HITTING THE ENTIRE INTERNET THIS SUMMER 2023

April 28, 2023

I’m so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

What is the EARN IT Act?

The EARN IT Act (s. 1207) has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country.

This is the third time the Senate has been trying to force this through, and I talked about it last year. It is a bill that claims "protects children and victims against CSAM" by creating an unelected and politically appointed national commission of law enforcement specialists to dictate "best practices" that websites all across the nation will be forced to follow. (Keep in mind, most websites in the world are created in the US, so this has global ramifications). These "best practices" would include killing encryption so that any law enforcement can scan and see every single message, dm, photo, cloud storage, data, and any website you have every so much as glanced at. Contrary to popular belief, no they actually can't already do that. These "best practices" also create new laws for "removing CSAM" online, leading to mass censorship of non-CSAM content like what happened to tumblr. Keep in mind that groups like NCOSE, an anti-LGBT hate group, will be allowed on this commission. If websites don't follow these best practices, they lose their Section 230 protections, leading to mass censorship either way.

Section 230 is foundational to modern online communications. It's the entire reason social media exists. It grants legal protection to users and websites, and says that websites aren't responsible for what users upload online unless it's criminal. Without Section 230, websites are at the mercy of whatever bullshit regulatory laws any and every US state passes. Imagine if Texas and Florida were allowed to say what you can and can't publish and access online. That is what will happen if EARN IT passes. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of Section 230 because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” and LGBT online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal’s EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230. If this bill passes, we’re going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms. This will include anything related to LGBT content, including SFW fanfiction, for example. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Tumblr, all of them will be completely gutted of anything related to LGBT content, abortion healthcare, resources for victims of any type of abuse, etc. It is a right-wing fascists wet dream, which is why NCOSE is behind this bill and why another name for this bill is named in reference to NCOSE.

NCOSE used to be named Morality in Media, and has rebranded into an "anti-trafficking" organization. They are a hate group that has made millions off of being "against trafficking" while helping almost no victims and pushing for homophobic laws globally. They have successfully pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. That's how SESTA passed. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The EARN IT Act will lead to mass online censorship and surveillance. Platforms will be forced to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, aything related to abortion, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSAM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please. The same way that right-wing groups have successfully banned books about race and LGBT, are banning trans people from existing, all under the guise of protecting children from "grooming and exploitation", is how they will successfully censor the internet.

As long as state legislatures can tie in "fighting CSAM" to their bullshit laws, they can use EARN IT to censor and surveill whatever they want.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of “protecting kids” to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids. Blumental doesn't care about protecting anyone, and only wants his name in headlines.

It will make CSAM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works – without fear of liability for any “failure.” Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on “obscenity” as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill? EARN IT is actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don’t know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the “make child pornography worse” bill, but here we are.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

EARN IT Act was introduced just two weeks ago and is already being fast-tracked. It will be marked up the week of May 1st and head to the Senate floor immediately after. If there is no loud and consistent opposition, it will be law by JUNE! Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. There are already 20 co-sponsors, a fifth of the entire Senate. This is an uphill battle and it is very much all hands on deck.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

[phone] connects you to the congressional hotline. Here is a call script if you don't know what to say. Call them every day. Even on the weekends, leaving voicemails are fine.

2. Sign these petitions!

Link to Petition 1

Link to Petition 2

3. SPREAD THE WORD ONLINE

If you have any social media, spread this online. One of the best ways we fought back against this last year was MASSIVE spread online. Tiktok, reddit, twitter, discord, whatever means you have at least mention it. We could see most social media die out by this fall if we don't fight back.

Here is a linktree with more information on this bill including a masterpost of articles, the links to petitions, and the call script.

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven’t seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

[jessfink]

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

[eddo-tensei]

We are now on the Week of May 1st. At this point, the Senate will consider marking the bill up so that it would go to the floor. This bill is dangerous and if passed, you'll be at the mercy of a commission who wants to control everything you do online. I am begging you. Please read this post, go on the Google Doc, make your calls, write your letters, spread the message around. I cannot stress this enough. I've had to call seven senators this morning. That's how important making sure this bill doesn't pass is to me.

[immaturityofthomasastruc]

Reblogging this because it's important.

[depsidase]

[redarmyscreaming]

Sharecropping.

[transcyberism]

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

[hedorahtheblogmonster]

MinusGoji’s full appearance from promotional materials for Godzilla Minus One

[fuckthisgovt-deactivated2023091]

[feeshies]

too early to make assumptions, but the fact that disney is rewriting captain nemo's backstory in their upcoming series so he steals his submarine from the english instead of building it himself feels gross to me

[feeshies]

yeah :(

[feeshies]

sorry i'm not done thinking about this. even though, again, it's still way too early for me to have any opinions. but this little detail is enough to make me worried.

because the early chapters have multiple scenes where nemo talks at length about the engineering behind the nautilus and how everything works (down to the tiniest detail, because jules verne did his research and he wants you to know no matter how many pages it takes), and aronnax is marveling over how amazing the technology is and how the submarine is beyond anything he could have ever imagined.

if you take out the detail that nemo built the submarine himself (which the book blatantly explains how he did that) and replace it with this plotline,

that part of the book i described is now a scene where an indian man and a french man cream their pants over the engineering and scientific power of the british empire.

[cookingwithroxy]

this is the whole 'let us take our villain reimagined into a hero' thing taken to it's most barbaric extreme, and after a quick reminder from Wikipedia...

The original Nemo was on a self-proclaimed exile from the civilized world after a 'Mysterious and unnamed powerful nation' conquered his country and killed his family.

And his hate for them was so great that the moment he saw a warship from this 'great imperialist nation' that was deliberately left unnamed, he set the Nautilus to attack, his desire for revenge so great that it terrified his allies.

The subtext there was very obviously that it was England, of course. Verne was French, after all.

[iamtiredofthisplanet]

I'm so tired of Disney trying to "fix" evetything in their live actions. I miss old Disney, can't even call myself a fan anymore.

[elvensaber]

Sometimes corporate speak is good.  For example, Space X calling their rocket explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week

[sindri42]

yeah RUD has been standard terminology since like, the apollo days?

Origins are unclear but it was in a book for naval personnel published in 1970, and I’ve talked to people who claim to have heard it used to refer to a Saturn V in 1965, possibly earlier…

popularity of the term among civilians kinda took off around 2011, I’m guessing due to Kerbal Space Program.