Instagram had recommended 1.4 million potentially inappropriate adults to teenagers in a single day in 2022

What does that even mean?

That all still seems like catastrophizing over videos, images, text on a screen that can’t compel action or credible harm. I expect that lawsuit to go nowhere.

At best, this guy lacks basic common sense.

Common sense is a myth & lack of it is unsurprising. Nothing of substance here.

The rough gist I’m getting is some poorly substantiated claim of ignorance of general exploitation as worse than overt abuse of human rights, eg

Yes, comrade, I’m locking you up and abusing your fundamental rights, but think how bad you’d have it free, doing the same work with a better standard of living & lower economic inequality while whining about exploitation!

Perhaps workers could earn better without “exploitation” in liberal democracies, but historical record & economic data show the opposite:

• the Soviet system stagnated & deteriorated behind liberal democratic counterparts at living standards & economic growth while still exploiting workers & abusing their fundamental rights
• several liberal democracies continue to achieve lower economic inequality & better living standards than communist states.

The Soviet Union gave up & dismantled itself for this reason. There was no tradeoff of human rights abuses somehow yielding a better life for a less exploited, average worker. For all its rhetoric, the Soviet workers got the worst of everything.

Per the philosophy of social democracies, socialism doesn’t require human rights abuses. Authorities abusing human rights are definitely worse than authorities not doing that & letting people fail on their own terms. In the case of those liberal democracies beating the performance of communist states, those “exploited” workers are freer & doing better than the “unexploited” ones. Given the results, it’s hard to find your notion of “exploitation” credible: I think it’s full of shit & mostly in your deluded theory that’s failing to bear out.

As the US Congressional commission on similar laws reported decades ago

• age verification is ineffective with highly adverse impacts
• client-side filtering^[1] is more effective with less adverse impacts.

Those conclusions still hold today.

So

a government authority takes away your freedom & subjects you to abuse

you depress yourself about having to work & pay for shit or deal with your feelings

same thing! 😊

I can’t believe everyone who buys this equivalence bullshit of illegitimate abuse & coercion in one case and lack thereof in the other. It’s like they have some submission kink to getting dominated.

It’s entirely different when the government authority not only says it but takes away your freedom & subjects you to abuse. How are so many here missing that crucial distinction?

It’s entirely different when the government authority not only says it but takes away your freedom & subjects you to abuse. How are so many here missing that crucial distinction?

Speaking on Tuesday at a summit hosted by the right-wing Israeli paper Israel Hayom in New York City

She’s catering to the far-right Israeli crowd under the illusion that interest group isn’t popularly considered toxic & waning in influence/political power.

classic weaponization of “antisemitism”

lick my butt off

Is this a disparity in treatment or response?

The 2025 politicians’ security survey, carried out by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, found that 26.3% of female elected representatives reported being exposed to threats and harassment last year because of their position. The equivalent figure for men was 23.6%.

About the same levels: the difference could be random noise.

When it came to feeling vulnerable, the gender gap was markedly larger, at 32.7% of women reporting such feelings compared with 24% of men.

That indicates a stronger response.

Maybe this concerns right-wing extremist threatening everyone more than inequality?

• Republican lawmakers are leaving office out of fear of the party’s base
• At least 11 Indiana Republicans were targeted with threats or swatting attacks
• Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to resign after MAGA threats

Everyone’s getting heat from far-right dickheads.

Pure image of text right there.

Edit: 👍

So, they shouldn’t challenge the tariffs?

presidential death trap

Authoritarian socialism doesn’t have an exclusive claim to leftism (contrary to tankie claims). Leftism & socialism can & probably should be nonauthoritarian & even liberal: power imbalance is a serious inequality.

kink-shaming

It’s great when the shitheads eat their own.

There’s nothing interesting to me in this comment.

That’s a you problem. The fact is you have no valid argument. Thanks for accepting defeat.

Promoting antisemitism by misdirecting blame to the Jewish people for divisive actions of Christian Zionists^[1] is the GOP strategy.

Are you the layer for this commenter?

I don’t know what you’re trying to say here, but it seems you’re doubling down on inserting ideas that weren’t implied: strawman fallacy.

Yes, the law is discriminatory.

Then it’s unjust.

Men and women are different

It may come as a shock to you there are other genders in the world.

we should discriminate between them in terms of culpability for murder - when appropriate

Never appropriate: generalization achieves the same.

removing gender from a law designed to address a gender issue would discriminate against the gender it’s trying to protect

Not in the slightest: “higher penalties for murdering someone because of their gender” increases the penalties for femicide. What is your valid objection against that?

I’m guessing you were trying to say does it discriminate against men

Nope: your mindreading fails again. The text we write states what we mean. Try working on your reading comprehension & not jumping to conclusions.