BIG BEAUTIFUL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PROPAGANDA OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S BANANA REPUBLIC MADNESSTAN
Dear Patriots, it is with great regret that we must inform you that broadcasts of Great Bigly Patriotic Truth will remain on hold for multiple weeks, as our chief propagandist is taking a well-deserved vacation to Absolutely-No-Secrets-Here Island. Due to der Fürzer Donald Trump's rigorous deportations, as well as race- and gender-based firings because nobody's job should be determined by their race or gender, the Department has not been able to find a replacement for this time. Sacrifices must be made in the name of patriotism! In the meantime, the Department compulsively recommends patriots to plug their ears and cover their eyes, as any and all perception of reality, which is not presented by der Fürzer's glorious Department of Propaganda, is obviously not to be trusted and most likely woke.
We wish patriots well in this trying period and look forward to reconnecting in a few weeks. Glory to Madnesstan!
With all the complaints about internet censorship, can we please talk about how hard YouTube is already censoring any comments and replies that contain keywords that could be considered remotely controversial? As an autistic person who doesn't mince words, it hits me hard, my replies get suppressed all the time.
Another Perspective on the recent Wave of Age-Gating Digital Legislation in the Western World, which has been in the Works for Years:
The primary criticism of laws that require people to verify their age when accessing certain websites and services is, that parents should be the ones taking care of their children and preventing them from accessing harmful content online.
And I agree!
However, it seems to me that in the process of issuing this exact critique, quite a few people fail to understand the difference between how things are versus how they should be. Yes, parents should be the ones protecting their children. But the grand majority factually are not! And no matter how the ideal solution to the problem may be, the governments are the governments. There is pressure on many sides for them to solve the problem however they can, right now.
Requiring age verification is the only options governments have here. The alternative would be a downright dictatorial invasion of families' private lives, in order to force them to protect their children.
This is in no way an attempt at defending the things which the UK, US etc. governments are doing right now, especially since such laws as the Online Safety Bill, KOSA Act, SCREEN Act etc. are quite simply surveillance bills, pushed for by corrupt lawmakers who know damn well that no other pretext than the universally agreeable pretext of protecting children would be accepted for this kind of overreach. But I genuinely wonder how else this problem could actually be solved.
P.S.: Similarly bad side effects of these laws are, that companies now realised that they can get away with grabbing personal information about their users that is as detailed as their very ID card. We are already seeing this in the USA, where the KOSA and SCREEN Acts are only proposals at this point. Having realised that they can get away with this, tech giants such as Google's YouTube are now scrambling to implement age-gating that has users give their IDs to them, not the government. The government of course already has its' citizens' IDs, they issued them after all. But companies can use this level of detailed data about their users for profit. Another issue is that far-Right pundits can, will and already are abusing the frustration caused by such laws, promoting their conspiracy narratives further, especially towards young people. Taking advantage of this, they can continue to depict themselves as rebels against a corrupt and autocratic system, until they themselves are voted into power, at which point they will of course create far worse autocratic systems.
The @CeavePerspective review of Donkey Kong Bananza is gonna be something like "Donkey Kong Bananza is the worst Donkey Kong Game - And that's great" and it's gonna begin with explaining the correlation between the Cuban Missile Crisis and a former CEO of Nintendo.
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BIG BEAUTIFUL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PROPAGANDA OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S BANANA REPUBLIC MADNESSTAN
Dear Patriots,
it is with great regret that we must inform you that broadcasts of Great Bigly Patriotic Truth will remain on hold for multiple weeks, as our chief propagandist is taking a well-deserved vacation to Absolutely-No-Secrets-Here Island.
Due to der Fürzer Donald Trump's rigorous deportations, as well as race- and gender-based firings because nobody's job should be determined by their race or gender, the Department has not been able to find a replacement for this time. Sacrifices must be made in the name of patriotism!
In the meantime, the Department compulsively recommends patriots to plug their ears and cover their eyes, as any and all perception of reality, which is not presented by der Fürzer's glorious Department of Propaganda, is obviously not to be trusted and most likely woke.
We wish patriots well in this trying period and look forward to reconnecting in a few weeks.
Glory to Madnesstan!
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How to repair anything:
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With all the complaints about internet censorship, can we please talk about how hard YouTube is already censoring any comments and replies that contain keywords that could be considered remotely controversial?
As an autistic person who doesn't mince words, it hits me hard, my replies get suppressed all the time.
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Another Perspective on the recent Wave of Age-Gating Digital Legislation in the Western World, which has been in the Works for Years:
The primary criticism of laws that require people to verify their age when accessing certain websites and services is, that parents should be the ones taking care of their children and preventing them from accessing harmful content online.
And I agree!
However, it seems to me that in the process of issuing this exact critique, quite a few people fail to understand the difference between how things are versus how they should be.
Yes, parents should be the ones protecting their children. But the grand majority factually are not!
And no matter how the ideal solution to the problem may be, the governments are the governments. There is pressure on many sides for them to solve the problem however they can, right now.
Requiring age verification is the only options governments have here. The alternative would be a downright dictatorial invasion of families' private lives, in order to force them to protect their children.
This is in no way an attempt at defending the things which the UK, US etc. governments are doing right now, especially since such laws as the Online Safety Bill, KOSA Act, SCREEN Act etc. are quite simply surveillance bills, pushed for by corrupt lawmakers who know damn well that no other pretext than the universally agreeable pretext of protecting children would be accepted for this kind of overreach.
But I genuinely wonder how else this problem could actually be solved.
P.S.: Similarly bad side effects of these laws are, that companies now realised that they can get away with grabbing personal information about their users that is as detailed as their very ID card. We are already seeing this in the USA, where the KOSA and SCREEN Acts are only proposals at this point. Having realised that they can get away with this, tech giants such as Google's YouTube are now scrambling to implement age-gating that has users give their IDs to them, not the government. The government of course already has its' citizens' IDs, they issued them after all. But companies can use this level of detailed data about their users for profit.
Another issue is that far-Right pundits can, will and already are abusing the frustration caused by such laws, promoting their conspiracy narratives further, especially towards young people. Taking advantage of this, they can continue to depict themselves as rebels against a corrupt and autocratic system, until they themselves are voted into power, at which point they will of course create far worse autocratic systems.
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The @CeavePerspective review of Donkey Kong Bananza is gonna be something like "Donkey Kong Bananza is the worst Donkey Kong Game - And that's great" and it's gonna begin with explaining the correlation between the Cuban Missile Crisis and a former CEO of Nintendo.
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Ukraine
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Community Posts for everyone, huh?
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