This bill is being voted on in the House which will be the death of our beloved Voat, we cannot allow this to happen, WRITE, EMAIL and CALL your Congressman!!!
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s1693/summary
If this law passes all (((they))) have to do to shut down ANY site is to False Flag sex trafficking and the Feds will move on the site's owners; namely our beloved @puttitout. This must be stopped at all costs!
edit: Here is what alerted me to the problem: https://kek.gg/i/4g7_mf.png
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CrustyBeaver52 ago
They are targeting all right wing communications along multiple vectors of attack. Anything to shut us down.
I don't think it will work though. The internet is too robust for that.
bdmthrfkr ago
Unfortunately, while they will never be able to shut it all down they will be able to shut down accessible sites to normies turning us into an echo chamber. You cannot redpill people from the dark web.
DoomMantia ago
> Implying voat is not an echo chamber
CrustyBeaver52 ago
They can certainly make trouble - and likely will for a while - but the government is inefficient at best, on a really good day.
I used to work for them - their offices are filled with almost exclusively dog fuckers.
In fact, dog fucking all day seems to be the number one prerequisite for continued government employment.
I have every faith we can work around whatever comes along.
Of course, better if we can nip this in the bud right now.
bdmthrfkr ago
I was never worried about the dog fuckers, it's the clowns that will try to effectively use their new powers to shape public opinion by performing surgical strikes against sites like ours. We have a chance to get in front of this (I looked around a bit more and the Senate hasn't put this up for a vote on the floor) so now is the time to rally the troops.
Measure twice, cut once. Deal with problems before they are problems.
CrustyBeaver52 ago
Hey, you put in Yeoman's work on this today - good job.