Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/ted-cruz-blocks-bill-that-would-extend-privacy-protections-to-all-americans/

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48 Comments

jared@mander.xyz · 123 pts · 348d (9 replies)

FUCK TED CRUZ!

shittydwarf@piefed.social · 33 pts · 348d (7 replies)

But not proper fuck

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 348d (5 replies)

With a tire iron, good enough?

blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 348d (3 replies)

I'm thinking some rough hewn pine is appropriate. Tire irons are usually painted and smooth. There is no point of such luxury here.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 348d (2 replies)

Hmmm, chimney sweeping brush?

blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 348d (1 reply)

If the bristles are steel, I am willing to accept your recommendation.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 348d

Well, I'm very confident the bristles are metal wire.

iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d

And use protection!

ronigami@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 348d

Party of small dicks

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 348d (2 replies)

Think of the pedofiles. Clutches pearls

altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 348d (1 reply)

You can't see the hand under his desk squeezing harder and harder.

Instructions unclear, is he supposed to like that?

reptar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 348d

Non -pedophiles carrying water for pedophiles

Pretty ick.

That's best case

danekrae@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 348d (1 reply)

Well of course. If he didn't, it would be anti-capitalism and therefore terrorism.

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 348d

Terrorcommunisocialism

rafoix@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 348d (4 replies)

Senate rules are embarrassing. One corrupt person can block a law that would benefit everyone in the country. The vast majority of US senators are bribed by dozens of wealthy donors.

Cassanderer@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 348d (3 replies)

But one senator van jam up a bill that would hurt too.

Given how weak and sold out the Democrats are, nothing happening is far better than what the Republicans want. That is actually what the Democrats base their entire electoral strategy on, aiming to do aiming to do nothing.

rafoix@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 348d (2 replies)

It is extremely undemocratic.

A single senator from a state with less population than a small city (500,000) in California can stop a law that would benefit tens of millions of people. It makes the votes of less populous states disproportionately more powerful than a vote from a large state.

Cassanderer@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 348d

Sure, bit with so many offices captured by nazi allies and nhilistic pieces of shit, less is more right now.

Now is the reason the system was set up like this, specifically so a minority can jam up the majority pushing through a bunch of plutovratic nazi shit.

burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 347d

There are only 6 cities in california with >500,000 population... I don't think you can call that a small city. Your point still stands, but let's not get crazy with our words here.

SarcasticMan@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 348d

Forget that, won't someone think of the pedophiles?!

Don't worry citizen. Ted will!

SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 348d (2 replies)
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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 348d (1 reply)

Just need a blue sharpie

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 8 pts · 348d

I like CANCUNT

PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 348d (7 replies)

The only time Texans get a break from Ted Cruz is when there’s a natural disaster.

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 348d (5 replies)

He's one of those politicians that I just can't understand every time they get re-elected. Like Schumer, or Graham. Voters are just the worst.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 348d

Don't forget MTG! Tons of her constituents are immigrants, too! (Indian)

PKscope@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 348d (1 reply)

The one that I could never understand was Mitch McConnell.

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 346d

He was awful, but he did everything the Republicans wanted. Very effective to their cause of over turning Democracy.

AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d (1 reply)

Honestly! I was in Texas for the Snowpocalypse and I naively thought everyone had woken up to his sniveling spineless ways.

I genuinely thought "Even if Trump wins, Texas will get Allred."

Then November happened and I was so fucking baffled. Cruz is reportedly abhored by EVERYONE.

burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 347d

Because most people have reduced voting down to cheerleading for 'their' side. Cruz has the (r) by his name, he gets their vote.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 348d

When he goes on vacation with his family, Texans had better watch out

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 348d

I think what should happen next is that every aspect of Ted Cruz's life should be made public. When he sits at his table eating his morning cereal there should be cameramen outside livestreaming it for the world to see.

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 348d

So this means he should have no privacy too right? Hahaha oh wait right he's special.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 348d

Protect the pedophiles, but not the privacy of the people that you yourself receive.

Nastybutler@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 348d (1 reply)

I hate that man, Ted Cruz.

I hate his right wing views.

antonamo@feddit.org · 2 pts · 348d

Instantaneously I get the blues

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 18 pts · 348d

Was this before or after he said we should stop attacking pedos?

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 10 pts · 348d (4 replies)

Other than this, i dont understand how so many politicians around the world do not understand the importance of privacy rights? The size and number of data breaches that have been happening lately has been skyrocketing and I am genuinely baffled how anyone can think it is a good idea to force people (like they are in the UK currently) to submit very sensitive IDs like passports or driver's licenses to the governments when... yeah, the UK government had a breach very recently with tons of data leaked...

Laws governing data privacy and corporation collection of information should have been very strictly regulated in the very early 2000s, we are fucking super late in the game.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 348d (3 replies)

i dont understand how so many politicians around the world do not understand the importance of privacy rights

They do understand their importance. They understand that they have to suppress those rights to continue in power.

PKscope@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 348d (2 replies)

Additionally, they understand that a fundamental lack of privacy is great for security and ultimately, their wallets.

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 345d (1 reply)

Security for who?

PKscope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d

Those in power

boogiebored@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 348d
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LordCrom@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 348d

Data brokers make a shit ton of money.... No surprise they got to someone to block this

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 348d

Technofash: Cha Ching!

DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 347d

Ted Cruz looks like someone I wouldn't trust to sell me a used car.

caesarxinsanium@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 348d

More like red hot metal rod

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d

I hate this so much. Special people get special treatment - everyone else can just get fucked, I guess.

WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 0 pts · 347d (1 reply)

.....

Cataphract@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 347d

You're giving off some strong "I just awakened my ChatGPT" vibes here. Raw genuine unadulterated humanity is a figment of your imagination just like the "original" tomato, both have evolved from prior iterations of it's ancestors and will continue changing in the future. Why not just aim for primordial bliss?