Montana’s Governor’s Changes to TikTok Ban Bill Would Ban Social Media

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17 points·isaacfrond··7 comments

It's been said a hundred times already, but putting unenforceable laws on the books still serves to oppress because these can be used to intimidate or convict "criminals" that have otherwise done nothing wrong. Unequal enforcement of the law reinforces existing class and other social inequalities.

There are only very few people that own social platforms.

By contrast, a lot more people own US, Russia, China... based businesses on the Internet, and those have been effectively banned in the EU since 2015 for similar reasons, do we have any examples 8 years later of EU law enforcement abusively intimidating business owners from these "rogue" countries ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_I

...maybe it's a good thing a state is concerned about the individual privacy rights of their citizens and are willing to take big steps to enforce it.

Yeah maybe, but at this point that's a non sequitor. What does it have to do with the price of tea in China?

The Utah porn ban - has that been enacted yet ???.

Unsurprisingly that state (LDS church influence) is one of the largest Pornhub users - pretty sure savvy folks will just use a VPN and get their kicks.

Maybe the US should invert the law and make everything illegal, with specific things being made legal, like a whitelist.

Yes the prohibition worked out so well - the bootleggers (mafia) then just moved on to drugs.

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