Always a smokescreen to take away your rights. Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to trafficking children to nobody.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlOP
    4·
    1 year ago

    Pro tip: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit which has been defending your right to privacy for many years. If you shop on Amazon, you can give a portion of the purchase price to EFF. You pay the same amount and daddy bezos gets a few less dollars. Use the affiliate link, not the smile link as smile has been sunsetted: https://www.eff.org/node/58741

      • Yozul@beehaw.org
        0·
        1 year ago

        If I’m on Amazon it’s for something that I need and can’t get locally. There are no saving to donate. I’ll probably have to spend a lot more, drive multiple hours, or both if I don’t shop on Amazon. That’s the only reason I ever use it.

        • flicker@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m glad someone said this here. It feels vile, being forced to do business with these corporations, but I end up getting bulk couscous (which has been scarce even in single bags or boxes in my rural, deep south community) for my autistic stepson who has very specific dietary needs. I can get very specialized disability equipment there, and it’s delivered in two days (which is already two days longer than we can afford to wait, sometimes, but we make do.)

          Yes, obviously, be ethical everywhere you can, as often as you can, but a blanket “dOnT dO bUsInEsS wItH eViL” is useless, whereas minimizing harm like with tips for links like this one is very helpful.

          It’s so insanely privileged. Reminds me of the same keyboard warriors who like to “raise awareness” by pouring ice water on themselves and then doing nothing else, feeling smug they did “something” when their only involvement with our causes is posting smug one-liners on the internet, or, of they’re feeling particularly “helpful,” changing their profile picture to reflect someone else’s cause.

          • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            Hi. Autistic adult here. I‘m sorry you have to go through this and get triggered by these things. I can relate.

            I think these „don’t do business with evil“ peeps are trying to make do as well as they’re watching the vast ignorant majority embrace consumerism and are panicking how to save our planet and our minds. I know its futile but I don’t think the majority wants to feel smug.

            I learned something that helped me out a great deal since 2020: don’t assume malice if you can assume incompetence. (And for us autistic people: if you can assume incompetence, be kind and don’t repeat the ableism you were met with).

            Just trying to spread some kindness. I hope it helps. Thank you for working so hard for your kid.

      • makeasnek@lemmy.mlOP
        11·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. Some people have to shop there for whatever reason. If that’s you, the link is good to use :).

  • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    Anything and everything that politicians propose to protect children, I am automatically against. It doesn’t matter how good it sounds, if they say anything about protecting children, I’m opposed to it.

    This is because they know that ‘protect children’ are magic words that let them get away with almost anything, and that’s genuinely about the only time they say that anyway. Basically nothing the government does is actually to protect children.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    What the hell would stop the government from just putting CSAM onto the phones of political rivals and upstarts to get them jailed without question?

    And child molesters will run away scot-free on account of all this.

    Isn’t there anyone who will stop the dirty child molesters without wanting power in return? Anyone?

    Anyone who will stop the government?

    Anybody?