The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon

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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Any bets on how many Democrats will vote in favour?

jdeath@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y

~all of them, i would wager

hark@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's not mutually exclusive. Laws are wielded as weapons all the time.

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@drmoose@lemmy.world

When I learned to write headlines 30 years ago, the goal was to capture the gist of the article. We'd write something like...

Proposd Take It Down Law Would Be Used as a Weapon

I'm not sure it's possible to train AI to write effectively headlines after 20 years of clickbaiting and controversy "journalism".

Ulrich@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

How is it not a law?

denshirenji@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

...that's not hyperbole

It's also not a law, it's a bill. Kind of a big difference.