Always a smokescreen to take away your rights. Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to trafficking children to nobody.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlOP
    1067·
    2 years ago

    Pro tip: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit which has been defending your right to privacy for many years. If you shop on Amazon, you can give a portion of the purchase price to EFF. You pay the same amount and daddy bezos gets a few less dollars. Use the affiliate link, not the smile link as smile has been sunsetted: https://www.eff.org/node/58741

  • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
    80·
    2 years ago

    Anything and everything that politicians propose to protect children, I am automatically against. It doesn’t matter how good it sounds, if they say anything about protecting children, I’m opposed to it.

    This is because they know that ‘protect children’ are magic words that let them get away with almost anything, and that’s genuinely about the only time they say that anyway. Basically nothing the government does is actually to protect children.

    • rifugee
      18·
      2 years ago

      We had a recreational marijuana referendum in my state and the opposition signs said, “Save the Children.” From what? I have no idea. Unsurprisingly, the vote failed.

      Of course, it really helped that the state legislature sued to halt the referendum on grounds of improper procedure which caused the referendum to be put on the ballot as a special election instead of the mid-terms ballot. The judge dismissed the lawsuit, by the way.

      The shit some people will do to stop other people from having a good time.

  • slazer2au
    532·
    2 years ago

    Different departments. It’s the ‘keep the plebs in line department’ that wants to scan your devices.
    Where as the ‘keep the rich giving us money department’ are not actioning the rapist list

    Wish I could add a /s to this.

    • arinEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I’m out of the loop, what’s this?

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        26·
        2 years ago

        The gal that recruited and ran girls under Epstein’s racket had a book of clients that turned up in evidence, and naturally the government isn’t going after a single one of them because they’re “special” aka rich and powerful