[duxup]

I feel like if there's a bad actor... this kind of legislation just ignores it / the problem.

Meanwhile kids will still find ways to do what they wish online and it will be hidden... adults exposed to these same bad actors.

[Planktonne]

I don't think this legislation is perfect, but I think it's a response to the bad actors pretending for decades now that they were concerned about freedom while acting against it.

This is the result of people no longer having any trust in people who claim to care for freedom while harming others; you can't keep drawing from a poisoned well.

[duxup]

I think it undermines the entire reasoning not dealing with the bad actors and reasonably questions what the actual intent is.

Social media companies bad ... laws imposed by government on individuals who aren't the people doing bad things.

That's absurd.

[Planktonne]

I agree, but it's a response to the first undermining: to a tech industry that insisted it could never be regulated without tyranny while at the exact same time supporting every social evil and tyranny.

"We're not the bad actors!" doesn't cut it when half the people saying it absolutely are.