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Reminder [USA]: The fight against age verification is still on! (lemmy.gf4.pw)

submitted 1 day ago by ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Just got off the phone with my Colorado representative. I reminded him that:

Everyone knows Meta lobbied for these laws
Everyone knows it's not "for the children"
My friends and neighbors care about privacy and we are watching how you vote
A vote for age verification is a clear indicator that you work for corporations and not constituents

You don't have to live in Colorado to get involved! If your state is blue or light blue on this map, you are under threat of age verification laws!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_laws_in_the_United_States

NOW is the time to call/email/write to your state legislators. Don't say, "Yeah, I should do that." Just do it and do it today, because they could surprise vote on it tomorrow.

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[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 1 points 3 hours ago

One phone call doesn't make a difference, just like one vote or one protester. But they will notice a flood of voicemails and letters if they care about re-election.

I have been thinking about this... if they lobbyists pay a better severance package than the government, politicians won't care about re-election. So, it is just a matter of how much. This is why we pay politicians so much salary... so they'll want the job enough to work for their re-election and not need to take side money. And I think the lobbyists can't afford to buy them outright because they'd have to cover all the future lobbyist money that the politician would have made if re-elected.

As such, I like term limits, but I'm realizing that they create lame ducks. If we had a one-term limit for president, the sitting president would never be accountable to voters.