Taylor Lorenz
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In addition to the Heritage Foundation, the other big group that's been involved in this is ENCOs, a.k.a.
Morality in Media.
They changed their name in 2015.
But these people do not care about protecting our rights to talk about abortion, LGBTQ content, women's rights, et cetera.
They want to send us, as you said, back to the 1800s.
And what disturbs me most are all the Democrats getting on board with it.
Wait, before we do that, can I add one more point to that?
Please do.
Please do.
In this effort to de-anonymize the web, it's also tracking everything that your child is doing online.
So YouTube and Meta and stuff, they're now monitoring a lot more of user activity, and again, tying that to real identities.
So say there's been so much amazing student activism against ICE.
Say your child throughout their teenage years is getting increased in activism, watching YouTube videos about, you know, from progressive people like us.
Right.
Right.
And, you know, maybe they attend a protest when they turn 18 and they step off a curb.
OK, that in itself is not enough to really prosecute them as a terrorist or something.
but you take that and you couple this with this now 10 years of internet history where you know everything that they've said on discord every group that they're in everything that they've consumed and watched and now you have a real case of like look at this radical getting increasingly radicalized and now they're stepping off the curb to commit violence we see we know that this is what happens because we see this is exactly how the internet functions in authoritarian regimes this is what happens and
we're seeing it happen in real time now so protect your children you your child deserves the right to learn and grow and consume information that privately privately that's not going to follow them around for life not just through corporate you know them also having to pay you know higher insurance premiums when they're 30 because they looked at the wrong thing when they were a teenager but also protect them from the government
Yeah, exactly.