Potential Rule 8 Question: Regarding the Recent Anti-NSFW Content Bans...

[NumberSix]

This is something the architects of project 2025 seem to have overlooked.

They think that just because Trump became president due to people not showing up to the polls, that we won't do shit when they come for our hobbies.

They haven't realized that it was the hobbies and distractions that were keeping us from staying engaged in politics. If they decide to remove them, we all are gonna have more time and motivation to get back at them.

Shortsighted fools.

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I am pretty sure that clown Starmer, the idiot feminists that pushed for the Steam bans and the buffoons in the EU that want to destroy encryption and implement real id on the internet are not part of anything related to Trump.

 

[JohnWolfie34]

Black markets are free markets and storage is pretty cheap nowadays.

Even if they ban the visible part of the internet much of the good stuff will remain around in pirated form, locally runable LLMs will help create derivatives and so on and so forth.

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The problem is, some of us(read, my living under a rock, only recently started to dive into the horny parts of the Internet ass) don't know where or how to look up free markets, or the invisible portion of the Internet.

*Shrugs helplessly*

 

[NumberSix]

The problem is, some of us(read, my living under a rock, only recently started to dive into the horny parts of the Internet ass) don't know where or how to look up free markets, or the invisible portion of the Internet.

*Shrugs helplessly*

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Learn about VPNs, particularly self-hosted ones, tech in general since these feckless parasitic government boomers have the retarded idea they can ban encryption, and P2P file sharing protocols.

Legal Notice: This message does not in any way endorse illegal activity and is published for educational or comedic purposes only, the poster is a highly trained actor thet fully endorses the EU, USA and the Nation of Israel.

 

[Megaolix]

Reminder to be careful about not slipping into Rule 8 territory here. Or else.

 

[JohnWolfie34]

Ack, scary green text

 

[humon]

MFW there's a political post on QQ that I disagree with:

Spoiler

 

[D'znn-Xy'lll MetaChthonia]

In a case of collateral and broken clock syndrome Trump apparently made an EO that coincidentally benefited Steam against being Censored.

Spoiler: Video

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6WNWVJfXP8

Clearly was intended to protect himself from this exact thing but it could hopefully help with pushing forward actual Laws. Probably by the end of the century there might even be a singular one in the US. Maybe.

Also now the UN is backing Collective Shout, calling them "defenders of human rights".

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Actually been seeing some counters to this so might have been caught up in the premature hype. It's about de-banking, don't think that impacts the payment parasites. Also have been hearing rumors that the deciding factor is a guy infamous for saying and pushing for all Porn being made Illegal.

Here's the Executive Order BTW. If'n ya want to puzzle out what any of the Legal jargon means.
Cato Institute also has a blog Post on this.

So, yeah, this may very well not be something that helps Steam (and, well, really others as well) assuming it even works the way it's being hyped up. So either still stuck at step 0 at best or have taken steps backwards at worse if it helping Steam is all hype and/or the deciding factor is another purityrannical.

Also funny enough a week or two ago someone mentioned on SV's War on Porn Thread that Visa and MasterCard started as being "that reliable payment processor that didn't ask questions for Porn". So their citing of reputational risk is in itself a risk to their own reputation if that's the case. So a bit of a funny thing to think about in a depressing way. Everything in this world seems to be built entirely around setting up backstabbing these days.

Been hearing about that one since Thursday but I have yet to find the Bill Number and Searching Congress.gov doesn't help and the Name only brings up reporting on it and only if I use the full one not the Acronym. I can only assume it's one being talked about but not properly introduced. Trying to check GovTrack but pretty much only using the number works for using that.

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Also remembered something relevant to this: another problem in this is that Congress is on recess till September. Archaic calendar from back when "Government" was supposed to be your hobby not your career and all that. So there shouldn't even be Bills introduced right now.