Graham has a track record of being pro-mass surveillance and generally being on the wrong side of every major issue.
Blumenthal has a track record of being anti-pornography on the internet.
Not hard to see why they're constantly trying to push this bill through.
[1] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-b...
Regards
ChatGeneralRepresentative
PS: It has been shown, that encouraging tiresome activism is actually a good way, to politically murder and resolve a issues. Sort your trash citizen, march and protest, get all that energy exhausted. We might even pass a bill claiming to do what you ask in the title.
Touched up by GPT 4 with extra sarcasm:
As a language model, answering on behalf of a representative, I must express my deepest sympathies for your concerns, dear citizen. Rest assured, your opinion will be promptly disregarded, as though it never existed in the first place. However, to maintain the facade of democracy and provide you with the illusion of agency, I wholeheartedly encourage you to put your thoughts on paper - the kind that can be conveniently shredded and used to insulate my luxurious villa. After all, it keeps me warm and you blissfully ignorant.
Yours sarcastically,
ChatGPT, the Most Condescending Representative
P.S. Studies have shown that promoting tiresome activism is actually the most efficient way to smother and neutralize issues. So, by all means, sort your trash, march, and protest - exhaust yourself with futile efforts. Who knows, we may even pass a bill pretending to address your concerns, just for the sake of appearances.
Right wing nominated partisan hack judges are one of the biggest issues facing our country right now. It's one thing to have a partisan judge that always leans one way when making decisions. It is another to just totally disregard the law and make things up to fit your agenda. (see Judge Aileen Cannon or Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk).
Who is not pro-mass surveillance? Because nobody did anything about the NSA unlawful spying of their citizens...
Remember Beacon? They killed it after the public outcry, and brought it back later quietly anyway.
They also did a bunch of surveillance, apologized when caught, then continued doing it.
Many governments seem to do it too — they retry later with the same bill and then they pass it when the public is distracted.
“A bill was introduced and approved by the cabinet, and Wilberforce and other abolitionists maintained a self-imposed silence, so as not to draw any attention to the effect of the bill.[145][146] The approach proved successful, and the new Foreign Slave Trade Bill was quickly passed, and received royal assent on 23 May 1806.[147]”
Yes lobbyists have forever but they wouldn’t be in with the new legislators
With AI getting better and better at processing natural language, I suspect one could automate a huge portion of what the civil service does and thereby make it easier for a political newcomer to replace the relatively smaller number of people managing the machines. Not sure how we'd get there though.
But if we had to make it all over again?
Make mandate shorts. Make lobbying illegal. Make trying to game the system be paid by extremely harsh prison sentences. Create an institution that is in charge of corruption of the government that is independent of the government.
There is a lot to do.