Believe me, I left out quite a bit of stuff - to the point of making my post require some pretty serious context to understand - because I didn't want to say anything politically charged.
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I'm reminded of a video about Prohibition, where there was a steady push against 'indecent behavior', leading to the banning of it, but the ban proved unpopular, unenforceable, and allowed criminal gangs to build up and dig in becoming a much larger problem then they were before.
Slight tangent, but how comes mods seem to have different colors? Is that a personal thing or do the different mod colors of different mods mean different things?
Different colors for different mods, to differentiate them more easily.
It's just pure hypocrisy too. Cause they didn't go after every site that has to deal with those same thing, they went after the easiest source but not the largest. Hell, the dark places of fucking reddit are likely worse.
I don't want them to go after anybody that isn't doing anything illegal. It's just that you've got all these interests aligned so they scratch each other's back. The censors, the puritans, the journalists and the bankers. They all want the same thing and it's to crack down on pornography for their own reasons whether it be ideological, financial or social status. Frankly the only thing that could be done to prevent any future financial canceling is a bill that hopefully becomes law that prevents payment processors from removing individuals or businesses from using their service.
Got it, thanks.
Yeah, cartels suck. It's long past time for Visa and Mastercard to be hit with antitrust.
We should've have gone all darknet/meshnet over two decades ago, but the problem is that such distributed and decentralized networking involves a few legitimately difficult computer science problems. Which is disheartening for those like me who can code, because that by itself is far from enough to be able to meaningfully contribute and speed things up, when what needs to be done is more fundamental research that got intentionally crippled by those who most benefit from centralization.
Yeah, feels as if the ground just vanishes under your feet and you're looking at a chasm.
Part of the cryptocurrency userbase exists for this meme, unfortunately it got mostly co-opted by gambling assholes. Most alternatives I know still require some bank-like institution to start with, like Taler [6][7].
It's all about control not even money anymore really
Considering the Covid relief bill makes it a felony to illegally stream stuff in addition to letting copyright holders sue people without filing a federal lawsuit and the cases will be decided by copyright officers instead of thr judicial system we're getting closer and closer.
That's true, though the bad record we've got archiving things before they disappear makes one worry how much will be lost in the transition.
If you don't think that the rest of the world wants to control and censor the internet as well then you're delusional. And I'm waiting for the US to eventually build its own Great Firewall.
They do, but less urgently, which gives us time to work.
I'd give some credence to that post if it weren't yknow, the KYM comment section. There was a doompost in one of the Election memes or something that had a bunch of upvotes that was going on about "how we're in an unprecedented time of danger" since "we'd be thrown into chaos if either of the presidents died of old age" because "who would take their place".
You/the OP certain that's new? I mean even if it is it's pretty nothing burger. Almost any porn vid site I've been to has censored out those results for at least the last like eight years. It's not anything new or remarkable.To anyone who is using xvideos and xnxx!
The sites have removed and changed certain tags making it harder to find "rape" and "non-consensual" porn.
https://old.reddit.com/r/xvideos/comments/kil9k1/for_some_reason_i_can_no_longer_search_for_videos/
Go try it yourself!
Screw 2020!
Presidential succession in 2016 was Pence. I will avoid Rule 8 by not commenting on that, but I think you can guess what I'd say.
On sites with ratings, those videos are probably so far in negative it'd be hard to fall for them.
I feel like you just did anyway and tried to handwave it with an abbreviation tag.
Click bait, outrage vids, reality tv, so on and so forth. Not only do people fall for them but they also stupidly rate them positively.
Not quite, I'd have gone much further, into details (as much as has made it to these foreigns lands I live in, at least). The abbreviation is, at best, a vague indication of what would've been problematic, but not how or why.
There goes my faith in humanity.
That is true. Most don't have a good search engine even before any censoring.
Putting information in abbreviations can still end up kinda baiting rule 8.
