Years in the making, the federal government is poised to introduce a new piece of legislation on Monday aimed at addressing a series of online harms.

Years in the making, the federal government is poised to introduce a new piece of legislation on Monday aimed at addressing a series of online harms.

There’s a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you’re right, on that point.

Pretending that such things won’t ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing

  • miscarriage
  • some brain-wirings/genders
  • violating christofascist supremacism
  • not being a Trump-cult member

as the next few years will demonstrate,

is naive/incompetent.

Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now “use”/abuse law.

That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.

All your examples indicate that if anything, having an actual black face is riskier than doing blackface in the long term.

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