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Always a smokescreen to take away your rights. Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to trafficking children to nobody.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Pro tip: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit which has been defending your right to privacy for many years. If you shop on Amazon, you can give a portion of the purchase price to EFF. You pay the same amount and daddy bezos gets a few less dollars. Use the affiliate link, not the smile link as smile has been sunsetted: https://www.eff.org/node/58741

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Propro tip: Don’t buy from evilcorp and donate those savings directly to the EFF

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Some people have to shop there for whatever reason. If that's you, the link is good to use :).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Amazon Smile is discontinued fyi

[–] insomniac 14 points 1 year ago

There’s so much irony in this comment it cured my anemia

[–] Mnemnosyne 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anything and everything that politicians propose to protect children, I am automatically against. It doesn't matter how good it sounds, if they say anything about protecting children, I'm opposed to it.

This is because they know that 'protect children' are magic words that let them get away with almost anything, and that's genuinely about the only time they say that anyway. Basically nothing the government does is actually to protect children.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

We had a recreational marijuana referendum in my state and the opposition signs said, "Save the Children." From what? I have no idea. Unsurprisingly, the vote failed.

Of course, it really helped that the state legislature sued to halt the referendum on grounds of improper procedure which caused the referendum to be put on the ballot as a special election instead of the mid-terms ballot. The judge dismissed the lawsuit, by the way.

The shit some people will do to stop other people from having a good time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

God, that's totally depressing, and I totally agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

US keeps taking the flame while EU, Bastion of Rightsβ„’, just outright banning encryption.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Different departments. It's the 'keep the plebs in line department' that wants to scan your devices.
Where as the 'keep the rich giving us money department' are not actioning the rapist list

Wish I could add a /s to this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're the same department.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why would they be? To save taxpayers' money?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Government:

Star Wars "Of course I know him, he is me."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe if 30% of the population weren't trying to re-elect one of those people for president it would be easier.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so adorable how many Americans think that the oligarchs they support are different.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LMAO imagine being an apologist for pedophilia and human trafficking and then judging others.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or Maxwell's client list...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's this?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The gal that recruited and ran girls under Epstein's racket had a book of clients that turned up in evidence, and naturally the government isn't going after a single one of them because they're "special" aka rich and powerful

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

What the hell would stop the government from just putting CSAM onto the phones of political rivals and upstarts to get them jailed without question?

And child molesters will run away scot-free on account of all this.

Isn't there anyone who will stop the dirty child molesters without wanting power in return? Anyone?

Anyone who will stop the government?

Anybody?