Turkey's justice ministry is drafting legislation that would imprison people for publicly praising LGBT identity, criminalize same-sex engagement and wedding ceremonies and impose sweeping restrictions...

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Text SIGN PKKHCP to 50409 — I urge you to vote no on any bills with the goal of sunsetting Section 230. This law is vital to maintaining our 1st Amendment Rights in an age of instant connectivity. It gives liability immunity to providers and users of online sites who allow 3rd parties to post on their site or accounts. Note, this does not include criminal behavior of any kind as that would be handled by entirely different measures altogether. We are talking free speech ONLY here. Section 230, for example, merely protects site owners from things like defamation lawsuits due to something a user posted on their site. Sunsetting this legislation will lead to an absolute erosion of our 1st Amendment Rights and will *increase* the levels of extremism in this country. Small websites will no longer be willing to allow people to post. The legal risk will be far too great if they can be held liable as "promoting" any and every little thing a user can possibly post. Big tech media sites, however, would continue to allow posting with extreme and draconian censorship that would sway at the drop of a political hat. Conspiracy theories would run rampant in real space due to this, dramatically worse than they do online and with no outlets. People would feel even more deeply unheard and angry. And unheard, angry people are quick to grab your attention in any way they can. Like with extremism and violence for example. The very issues we are trying to solve. Not only would this deeply impact our Rights and increase extremism, it would inevitably create an environment where only one narrative would be visible on the internet. Easily controlled by the top of the ladder, that narrative will lack consistency and will always forward whatever agenda is momentarily at hand. All discussion deemed off narrative will be squashed and litigated. A terrifying dystopia. Quite literally like something out of this country's high school required reading books. Except it won't be fiction, but a hard reality. The data backs up this potential reality. That's why this legislation has continued to exist despite corporate backed bipartisan attempts to dismantle it for over a decade. It is *that* fundamental to our freedom of speech now. The billionaire class wants to exploit this weak time for our society to yet again enable their own capitalization and to protect themselves from public dissent. The current administration's strategy of distracting from criminal distractions to distract from criminal behavior has created chaos. A chaos the billionaire class is using to try silence us while they think we are too overwhelmed to notice. They are wrong. We will not go further into their dystopia silently. Please vote no on any proposed legislation that would harm section 230 and, by direct extension, our 1st Amendment protections.

The Idaho House widely passed a bill that expands on the state’s law banning transgender people from using their preferred school bathrooms.

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