Like, long story short, it's a bill that requires app stores to do invasive age verification, which is already very bad, but note how it defines "app store" in the text of the bill itself. Note how wildly overbroad it is 2/

It doesn't have to be active implorement for people not to do that, just that passive level of scorn is enough to have a chilling effect.

Like, I've been shown that up front, here is a screencap from the biggest a-hole leftist I know saying the quiet part out loud:

Like, @jasonkpargin.bsky.social, this is the mindset behind why disabled people are considered disposable. Straight up.

Even if we try, if we're not good enough we're thrown away, because "The World Only Cares About What It Can Get from You" Dave. It's not just incels mad about this Dave.

There's a weird irony in the Atlantic publishing this after platforming Johnathan Chait, who as @mmasnick.bsky.social has noted was a big starter of the moral panic driving all this.

Same energy as:

I will say, if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wants someone who can actually photomanip his beard significantly longer with competence, I work cheap!

Here is a sample, ignore the tactical rock and dinosaur legs I couldn't figure out what else to put there:

Also, made this my new header, given the free speech wars to come.

Feel free to use it with credit, the character's my OC Ooky-Spooky who's under a CC-BY license actually (Albeit, I usually draw her with a different looking hat.)

I think about this old screencap from @codyjohnston.bsky.social 's showdy very often because... well current events.

Fun art challenge idea: Do a YCH-type thingie based on this with whichever one of your OCs would be throwing the pipe bombs!