FOSTA-SESTA, the law that increased liability for platforms facilitating porn, passed 388-25 in the House and 97-2 in the Senate back in 2018. Every senate Progressive except one voted yes, including Sanders, Warren, Kamala Harris (AG against Backpage), Booker, etc. Anti-trafficking feminist groups like NOW backed that legislation, or were silent on it. Similarly, media outlets were either quiet or in vocal support, i.e., the NYTimes 2020 attack on Pornhub.

In any case, I detect an omnicause because people are sloganeering on its behalf below:

"If you see this as political, you should fix yourself", "computing is related to colonialism", "everything is political" etc.

Lets see the fruit of their decision.

https://ziglang.org/news/300k-from-mitchellh/

https://ziglang.org/news/2024-financials/#income

https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/#income

I had a bit of trouble finding it myself but Claude proved a better Googler than I

Wikipedia, for example, acknowledges the Administration "coerced or significantly encouraged social media platforms to moderate content, which violated the First Amendment." The Reason article is overwhelmingly negative on the Administration's seeming censorship. That and other details in the articles don't serve your conclusion.

To be clear, that source is happy to lie about their own identity and run away from basic questions. I'd treat this as another ill-baked cancel campaign unless someone actually credible speaks up

It was a dishonest effort that actually undermined the memory safety pitch.

> Parallel semantic analysis has been an explicitly planned feature of the Zig compiler for a long time, and it has heavily influenced the design of the self-hosted Zig compiler. However, implementing this feature correctly has implications not only for the compiler implementation, but for the Zig language itself! Therefore, to implement this feature without an avalanche of bugs and inconsistencies, we need to make language changes.

I remember one time some libraries banned non-equity-promoting books and then backtracked and called it "deaccession" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-lib...

Right wing and left wing people love roleplaying as freedom fighters against the forces of evil.

It's a problem of form and substance. The words feel like academic cosplay, dressing up loose thinking to inflate weak insights.

Nonetheless, it’s true for most voters in Oakland or SF. Just last month, a judge let a homeless stabber back on the street after he threatened and tried attacking SF’s mayor and his bodyguard. The Progressive reaction was to blame the mayor and the police— and then the newly freed homeless guy immediately broke the law again and had to be re-arrested.

I'd like Youtube to one day enable me to disable the fun colors in-app, but that's not a requirement. At the end of the day, the onus is on me, first, to number my days. (Psalm 90:12)

I'm sympathetic to the idea that most internet websites are addicting and bad for society, but I think the blame-game obscures our own agency, which we pretend not to have, and overemphasizes the platform's power, which isn't as strong as we pretend. We're not victims, they're not Gods.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1sjq9v9/mayor_zohran_m...

The “remove video thumbnail” and “remove YouTube shorts” chrome extension is a must install though.

I'm neither a supporter nor opponent; I only see the EFF's rhetoric as way for themselves and their supporters to lie about their mutual contempt for their opponents.

An earlier signal was when the EFF ejected one of their founders from the board for disagreeing with their mission creep https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/25/john_gilmore_removed_... See http://www.toad.com/gnu/ and also the HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992462