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Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by alkonaut on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:44AM (#23639503)
> (R-SC)...(R-AR)...(R-TN)

It's funny how you can read just that and know that the bill is going to be absurdly bad. Not even just bad in the philosophical/political sense but actually just bad as in not understanding the problem space, or not even formulated clearly or coherently.

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by throwaway0a5e on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:58AM (#23640166)
Toss enough coins and you'll get a good streak of heads going.

There's plenty of D's who just love to come up with bills that make citizens more vulnerable to the government.

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by Intermernet on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:35AM (#23641204)
Sorry to say, but even in Australia the combination of SC, AR, TN leaves me worrying. There's a lot of dark history associated with those states that the world has known about for years. That's without taking the "R" into account.

Sometimes I think the USA should have it's own history A/B compared against it's own history as recorded by the rest of the world.

Not saying it's Tiananmen level yet, but it seems some people haven't read their own history.

Disclaimer: I live in NSW, Australia. Some evil stuff happened here that is rarely acknowledged.

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by throwaway0a5e on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:10AM (#23641612)
The northeast states are built on a legacy of making life hard for anyone who didn't hail from the right country or worship in just the right way. The west coast treated Asians like crap. The plains states had to kick the natives out and that wasn't pretty.

It's harder to fit that crap into something short and sweet enough for history textbooks so you don't hear about it whereas simple skin tone based discrimination in the south is easy to make a bullet point out of so everyone knows about it.

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by zenhack on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:23PM (#23645867)
> The plains states had to kick the natives out

...and the rest of the states...

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by cabaalis on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:23AM (#23639827)
Are you saying that Rs or people from southern states are incapable of critical and analytical thinking?
Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by cure on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:53AM (#23640104)
Perhaps just that that combination does not have the best track record in that regard. Their war on science, etc.
Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by saon on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:53PM (#23655555)
As a native born floridian, the claim that southern republicans are not good at critical and analytical thinking seems true to me. Surely they're out there, but I haven't met them yet, and I've met plenty of conservative southerners.

If your voting base prefers the blood of christ over a facemask to protect from coronavirus, you probably aren't writing bills based on, uh, informed analysis of relevant data.

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by ragnese on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:08AM (#23640929)
Yes.

(Just saw an opportunity for a joke and took it)

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by alkonaut on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:23AM (#23641079)
Not sure, maybe it's the combination.
Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by api on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:19AM (#23640375)
Nancy Pelosi backed EARN-IT, a bill that's just a more passive aggressive way to try to get the same camel into the same tent.
Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by tharne on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:50AM (#23641401)
Agreed. In most cases the main difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the Democrats are much better at hiding their motives or wrapping them in some sort of socially acceptable argument.

I same ways, I prefer the Republican approach because they're more honest about how they want to screw you so it's easier argue and fight back against.

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by hedora on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:08AM (#23641590)
Feinstein (D-CA) co-introduced EARN IT. She might be up for re-election one more time before she retires.

She votes according to Trump’s recommendations more than any other democrat, and more than many republicans.

Her history of supporting right wing causes and overt corruption spans many decades.

As a California Democrat, her position has been unassailable most of her career. I suspect getting rid of her was a motivation for open primaries.

Californians, please stop voting for her!

Re:An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT by cure on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:38PM (#23644632)
> Feinstein (D-CA) co-introduced EARN IT. She might be up for re-election one more time before she retires.

Yes. I call her Senator Hollywood. That's the only constituency she really represents. She's been on the wrong side of all tech related bills over her entire career. EARN-IT is simply the latest one in that list.