Do you even realize the extent of the tyranny we find ourselves under?
Again, you seem to be arguing since things are already tyrannical we should make things more tyrannical, just in a potentially slightly different direction. You say that's not your argument, but then you keep bringing it up.
What about that do you object to, precisely?
I'm not sure how many times I have to say it: Gubmint doesn't get to ask me for ID to go to sites on the internet, and they can fuck right off with that nonsense. Parents should look after their children, and we should be able to go to any website we want without having to ID ourselves.
To expand even further: If they can ask for proof to access media, why couldn't they ask for ID for other things, like "terrorist" content, or even just gun content. If they succeed in pushing gun purchasing age to 21 like they want, or 25...how long before those same internet ID laws end up barring legal adults from accessing 2nd Amendment content online, for example?
Not sure why I have to keep repeating myself, but the government being able to ask for ID to access the internet is a ridiculously slippery slope.
It's not more tyrannical. That's the point. You already don't have free speech. You can't criticize any of the sacred cows of the left in public or you get fired, potentially imprisoned and possibly murdered. You can't buy a gun or ammo or even a damn knife these days without showing an ID.
Let's look at the outcomes of what you're advocating for.
You still don't have free speech. Nor will you, because you aren't actually trying to stop the people tyrannizing you. In fact you're fighting the only people who are.
I won't stop making it, because it's completely and observably true. You do not have free speech. And you never will, so long as the psycho wannabe commissars of the left are permitted even to exist.
Not by the government
There is no meaningful distinction to be made between leftists with official or unofficial power.
what websites I can access
They already have it. Look at Alex Jones. Forced with a judgement larger than any in history, all for saying a single sentence.
The only way to be free of them is to do what Gab did and spin up all the website backbone yourself. Otherwise you are under their thumb. And if you're European it's even worse, they claim jurisdiction over the speech of everyone else on the planet, under the flimsy justification that their citizens might see it.
You're trying to defend something that doesn't even exist in the hypothetical. And to do it, you're trading child access to porn. This is eminently foolish.
And it's the same damn argument I heard when Reagan signed the amnesty and doomed this pitiful excuse for a country.
Again, you seem to be arguing since things are already tyrannical we should make things more tyrannical, just in a potentially slightly different direction. You say that's not your argument, but then you keep bringing it up.
I'm not sure how many times I have to say it: Gubmint doesn't get to ask me for ID to go to sites on the internet, and they can fuck right off with that nonsense. Parents should look after their children, and we should be able to go to any website we want without having to ID ourselves.
To expand even further: If they can ask for proof to access media, why couldn't they ask for ID for other things, like "terrorist" content, or even just gun content. If they succeed in pushing gun purchasing age to 21 like they want, or 25...how long before those same internet ID laws end up barring legal adults from accessing 2nd Amendment content online, for example?
Not sure why I have to keep repeating myself, but the government being able to ask for ID to access the internet is a ridiculously slippery slope.
It's not more tyrannical. That's the point. You already don't have free speech. You can't criticize any of the sacred cows of the left in public or you get fired, potentially imprisoned and possibly murdered. You can't buy a gun or ammo or even a damn knife these days without showing an ID.
Let's look at the outcomes of what you're advocating for.
You still don't have free speech. Nor will you, because you aren't actually trying to stop the people tyrannizing you. In fact you're fighting the only people who are.
Perverts get free reign.
Seems like a double loss to me.
Stop making this stupid argument.
Not by the government, at least not directly. Again, we shouldn't make it easier for them.
Hell yes you can, at least for ammo and knives.
I'm advocating for not giving the government control over what websites I can access. That's it.
Again, stop with this argument, it's beyond pointless.
I really don't see how letting the government have control over all the information I access is them stopping their tyranny of me, but you do you.
I won't stop making it, because it's completely and observably true. You do not have free speech. And you never will, so long as the psycho wannabe commissars of the left are permitted even to exist.
There is no meaningful distinction to be made between leftists with official or unofficial power.
They already have it. Look at Alex Jones. Forced with a judgement larger than any in history, all for saying a single sentence.
The only way to be free of them is to do what Gab did and spin up all the website backbone yourself. Otherwise you are under their thumb. And if you're European it's even worse, they claim jurisdiction over the speech of everyone else on the planet, under the flimsy justification that their citizens might see it.
You're trying to defend something that doesn't even exist in the hypothetical. And to do it, you're trading child access to porn. This is eminently foolish.
And it's the same damn argument I heard when Reagan signed the amnesty and doomed this pitiful excuse for a country.