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[Jomasten]

I don't remember a time travelling event happening that put us in the late 90's early 00's, and people are once again fear mongering video gamers.

 

[TheMidnightRook]

I don't remember a time travelling event happening that put us in the late 90's early 00's, and people are once again fear mongering video gamers.

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I don't remember them actually stopping.

 

[CrunchySharpie]

It's from a respected mainstream media news outlet. Surely you're not going to insinuating that they might lack in dedication to unbiased and factual reporting of current events?

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You had us in the first half not gonna lie

I don't remember a time travelling event happening that put us in the late 90's early 00's, and people are once again fear mongering video gamers.

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It didn't really stop, just like before video games it was rock music, jazz, etc. Old people have been bitching about the youth for thousands of years. Theres even a clay tablet from like mesopotamia of a guy that's bitching about the youth being corrupted by writing novels and poetry and shit. This shit isn't new, it's literally older than print.

 

[Jomasten]

I don't remember them actually stopping.

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You had us in the first half not gonna lie


It didn't really stop, just like before video games it was rock music, jazz, etc. Old people have been bitching about the youth for thousands of years. Theres even a clay tablet from like mesopotamia of a guy that's bitching about the youth being corrupted by writing novels and poetry and shit. This shit isn't new, it's literally older than print.

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Oh, I'm very aware the fearmongering never stopped.

But for at least one generation, we got to enjoy peace and quiet for games.

 

[CrunchySharpie]

Oh, I'm very aware the fearmongering never stopped.

But for at least one generation, we got to enjoy peace and quiet for games.

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Eh, it's a flash in the pan from an industry struggling to remain relevant, gaming is arguably one of the largest industries in the world and there are enough gamers out there that making that argument, at best, gets you a very stern side eye.

 

[MadGreenSon]

This fucker was killed for being the United Health CEO, not because of Among Us. Everyone knows it and while opinions may vary on whether or not he had it coming, there can be no doubt that his job and the actions taken therein are what inspired this particular murder.

 

[Emerald Cube]

In the UK the new legislation about online safety has apparently just come into effect. Obviously the main online sites that are being looked at by this are Faceboo, Insta and a few other places like one website that's apaprently promoting suicide and does nothing else.

If there are any mods/admins that see this, has QQ had any discussions about what might be done in the event the UK government starts poking their head at QQ? It might not actually affect QQ but there will apparently be autoamtic searchers and this may extend to "content creators" apparently so peopel who write anything dodgy might be at risk.

Link here for reference: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2025-0043/

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

…I'm not sure whether QQ can just tell the UK to go fuck themselves if flagged (because QQ's servers are in America), or whether they'll have to IP ban UK residents. I suppose in the latter case, it partly depends on the "dedicated 'small but risky' supervision taskforce" spotting the site.

It reminds me of Apple disabling their iCloud encryption due to similar government demands. I also found this bit (portending future legislation) pretty interesting:

However, the IWF was "deeply concerned" that the codes allow services to remove illegal content only when it is 'technically feasible', which will incentivise platforms to avoid finding ways to remove illegal content in order to evade compliance":

…This undermines the Act's effectiveness in combatting online child sexual abuse. We urge you to instruct Ofcom to urgently review and mitigate this blatant get-out clause.

The publication of the Codes also highlights the weaknesses within the legislation itself. For example, the Act does not mandate companies to moderate content uploaded in private communications. As a result, illegal content that is blocked elsewhere on the internet can still be freely shared in private online spaces.

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What even is privacy? Can you eat it?

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

Apologies for the double-post, but-

I think the 'Age Verification Requirement' technically applies to, practically every fiction repository online? I mean:

To protect children, platforms must:
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• prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content including … content depicting or encouraging serious violence or bullying content

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I'm not sure I've ever seen a writing platform prohibiting even the depiction of bullying. Probably they won't enforce it as they've literally written it, but I'm pretty sure this would make almost every library 18+.

 

[evildice]

I'm not sure I've ever seen a writing platform prohibiting even the depiction of bullying.

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It could also be read as prohibiting "(content depicting or encouraging serious violence) or (bullying content)" especially as the word "content" appears twice.

That would mean content which bullies a real person is prohibited, like if I were to write a sex story about how terrible Biigoh is in bed, lamenting and lambasting and generally being a tanuki-bully, that would be prohibited.

 

[SuperPulp2789]

Apologies for the double-post, but-

I think the 'Age Verification Requirement' technically applies to, practically every fiction repository online? I mean:

I'm not sure I've ever seen a writing platform prohibiting even the depiction of bullying. Probably they won't enforce it as they've literally written it, but I'm pretty sure this would make almost every library 18+.

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These days I'm against censorship, but agree there's stuff kids shouldn't access….but really the solution is simple

Parents? You monitor your own kids' stuff and make sure to see if it's that bad or not when it comes to violent and sexual content

If they're already cursing though, maybe they got it from YOU

That way, no need for companies and governments to go censorship happy because it'd cause a LOT of new headaches on definitions

Parents, YOU look at those books and shows and even the school material, otherwise you really are thinking "the state is the father of the children-Thomas Mann", not you

 

[Emerald Cube]

These days I'm against censorship, but agree there's stuff kids shouldn't access….but really the solution is simple

Parents? You monitor your own kids' stuff and make sure to see if it's that bad or not when it comes to violent and sexual content

If they're already cursing though, maybe they got it from YOU

That way, no need for companies and governments to go censorship happy because it'd cause a LOT of new headaches on definitions

Parents, YOU look at those books and shows and even the school material, otherwise you really are thinking "the state is the father of the children-Thomas Mann", not you

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I think they're more worried about people making CP, which admittedly a lot of people who write on here have produced, even if it's purely fictional rather than imagery.

 

[vyor]

I think they're more worried about people making CP, which admittedly a lot of people who write on here have produced, even if it's purely fictional rather than imagery.

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If there are no actual children involved, it by definition can not be CP.

 

[magic9mushroom]

If there are no actual children involved, it by definition can not be CP.

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By your definition or my definition or the US legal definition, sure, but not by the UK or Australian legal definitions (well, technically they call it "child sexual abuse material" or "child exploitation material" respectively, in even more flagrant defiance of logic). Your First Amendment is a great thing.

 

[evildice]

If there are no actual children involved, it by definition can not be CP.

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That really should be the law.

Or even simpler: "Was anyone raped in the production of this material?"

 

[vyor]

By your definition or my definition or the US legal definition, sure, but not by the UK or Australian legal definitions (well, technically they call it "child sexual abuse material" or "child exploitation material" respectively, in even more flagrant defiance of logic). Your First Amendment is a great thing.

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Their legal definitions include that caveat too!

They just fucking ignore that.

The Human Rights Act of 1998 includes freedom of speech clauses!