22 Democrats Sponsor a Bill That Could Censor Abortion Info From the Internet::The Kids Online Safety Act is “a blank check” for Republican AGs to “intimidate any way they can,” a digital civil liberties advocate told Jezebel.

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Censor something from the internet? good luck lol

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“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

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That was before the internet was five big websites showing content scraped from the other four.

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I would argue most of internet is already being censored… probably for good reasons.

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Now imagine if they used the law to force Google not to provide any results in a search for abortion. While it may not remove content from the Internet, it effectively removes access to it.

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This shows we need an open source search engine that anybody can whip up. To all the devs and volunteers out there, please make something like this, if there’s one already, I’ll see if I can contribute to the project.

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In the meantime, you can use something like ProtonVPN to make sites think you’re not in the US. Google uses your IP address to determine your location and implement regulations based on that. You get better privacy options when it thinks you’re in Europe too.

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I smell onions

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A 16 year old girl who wants to know what to do after getting pregnant does not

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You say that but the internet of today is a far more “sanitized” place than it once was.

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Lol, this is very doable and happens in the western world all the time.

Even propaganda is rampant here.

Maybe it’s not gone, but it might as well be if 98% of the population can’t find it.

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