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>buzzfeed shuts down
>Everyone is watching Sam Hyde's reality show instead

So fitting
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ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names


Let me provide a few examples of what the “new world order” for domain names would be under the world envisioned by ICANN staff and Verisign:

The government of China orders domain names operating websites that are critical of its policies to be suspended (or simply transferred to the Chinese government).
The government of Russia, at war with Ukraine, orders the transfer of pro-Ukrainian domain names to the control of the Russian government.
The government of Ukraine, at war with Russia, orders the transfer of pro-Russian domain names to the control of the Ukrainian government.
The government of Texas orders pro-abortion domain names to be transferred to the Texas government.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan orders pro-abortion domain names, and those promoting education for girls, to be transferred to the government.
The government of Iran orders all domain names around the world with “adult” content (i.e. pornography) to be transferred to the Iranian government.
The government of Tuvalu, (which already licenses the .TV registry in order to raise funding) facing an economic crisis due to climate changes, orders that every 2-letter, 3-letter, and one-word dot-net be transferred to the Tuvalu government, in order to auction off the domain names to raise new funding for themselves.
A government in Argentina launches a new program whose name happens to be identical to the domain name owned by a French company for the past 25 years. The government of Argentina orders that the domain name be transferred to them, without compensation for the expropriation.
The government of Italy is upset about a social media company operating from China, and orders that the Chinese company’s domain name be transferred to the Italian government.
The UK government is upset that software published by a Swedish company has end-to-end encryption. It orders the domain name of the Swedish company be transferred to the UK government.

I’m sure readers can come up with their own examples of what would happen if governments are able to censor or seize domain names they don’t like or expropriate domain names that they covet, without due process for registrants.

Now, you might be thinking “Hey, I don’t live in or have any connection to China, Russia, or Afghanistan — those governments have no jurisdiction over me.” That’s how things are at present.
ICANN and Verisign propose to overturn centuries of legal debate over the nature of liability across jurisdictions with their outrageous proposal

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230420104443/https://freespeech.com/2023/04/19/red-alert-icann-and-verisign-proposal-would-allow-any-government-in-the-world-to-seize-domain-names/
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So, Twitter :twitter: decided to pull a DeviantArt move and change its Terms Of Services to include anything you post there on their AI dataset, to re-publish your art and benefit from it without your consent or compensation.

:twitter: TIME TO DELETE YOUR ART PORTFOLIO ON TWITTER :twitter:

I will only leave my contact information there, nothing else.

#Twitter #artistsonmastodon #TwitterAlert #AuthorsRights #AI #DeleteTwitter

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The conservatives obsessed with #pedos need to have a conversation with the conservatives obsessed with #Waco. When should the government violate claims of religious freedom or libertarian independence in order to protect kids, and what actions should they be willing to take?
express.co.uk/news/us/1749399/

Reminder that if you are a video game developer, comic book artist, independent film maker, etc and are anti-woke. It's best to ignore the woke agenda and work on your project. There is no need to constantly obsess over SJWs or brag how anti-SJW you are, just get your game/movie/book done. If you keep on obsessing over the culture war, you just end up taking more of your time you could've spent on your project.

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Chicken marinated in soy sauce with corn starch, garlic and fresh ginger, and red pepper flakes
Celery
Onion
Yellow and red bell pepper
Cabbage
Carrot, quartered
Shitake
Water chestnuts
Jasmine rice.

Cooked the meat and veg separately then poured the saved marinade over them once combined.
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Well, that's an interesting fact showing us how streaming has taken over our screens. However, I personally think they should keep the DVD shipping around until it's the next "retro" thing to do - then it'll come back into style and be cool once again. Think of it as a total plot twist!
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tightened up some npc schedules and fixed a flaw with the party member recruitment that would let you recruit more than 2 party members (but not be able to use them). two of the four party members are recruitable now, one of them still has the other's dialogue though. i'll be fixing that as well as adding the other two party members recruiting capability in the coming days. they should be a lot easier now that i have a better framework for it, and they're not involved with quests in any way.

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