xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. 

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/technology/the-kids-act-would-require-age-checks-to-get-online

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"Meta Loses Bid To Dismiss US States' Claims That Facebook, Instagram Addict Children

They also ruled that Meta failed to comply with federal parental notice and consent requirements for children under 13, 'and granted summary judgement to the states on that issue,' reports Reuters.

In a separate statement, California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the decision a 'critical win' in holding Meta accountable for fueling a mental health crisis among American children. "

Whatever happened to parental responsibility? I mean seriously. If Facebook and all these platforms are a 'health crisis' it's not the platforms that are to blame. This isn't an issue of negligence or foreseeable danger, but a problem any parent can see to whatever degree it's a problem with a given child. It's the parents responsibility to whatever degree any parent(s) feel it's impacting their children in a negative or harmful way to separate that product/service/etc from use by their kid.

It's not the state's responsibility and it's certainly not Facebooks.

Stop using YouTube and Facebook and similar platforms as your babysitter. This is no different than the 90s parents who let their kids watch 'too much' TV and then would blame television for their self-inflicted problems. Don't like what is on TV? Turn the TV off.

I don't like Facebook either, but I don't blame Facebook for my personal problems. I take responsibility for my problems and don't use Facebok (fictional in the sense that I would never use Facebook in the first place so it makes it a bit difficult to be addicted to Facebook, point being if Mastodon was an 'addiction' ... I'd stop using it too!).

Rember 13 years ago when Sony mocked Microsoft for not having physical games?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

Prediction: We're seeing large amounts of people (re)turning to religion in hopes of finding the things society has largely discarded: community, meaning, and support. In some cases these people will encounter many of the things that caused people to fall away from religion in the first place. Those people are going to be the most dangerously radicalized people, far beyond anything we've seen so far.

I think that this will be used as the pretext for the overt acceptance of pre-crime totalitarianism.

"Amazon says it is ending sideloading on new Fire Sticks because 'apps that facilitate piracy, and other apps, can carry malware,'"

Ohh you mean like proprietary OS Amazon ships with the device????

Story from arstechnica.com:

https://archive.ph/wip/WluTf

Moral of the story: Don't use crappy products from crappy companies where can avoid them.

There is nothing wrong with hooking up a plain old privacy respecting GNU/Linux OS (or dare I say even GNU/Linux-libre OS) or similar free software friendly device to a TV and streaming or otherwise watching your content from there.

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You've been in the industry long enough you should know better than this. Atari and Amiga were killed by their owners and the Microsoft+IBM monopoly. Not game piracy. Amiga Inc was not even a games company. Their leading product was hardware. Nobody wanted to own an Amiga computer because the IBM PC had caught up, was already in offices, had way more effective marketing, and the main audience interested in a multimedia computer already had their eyes on Nintendo and Sega. Commodore spent years flailing about, half-developing and throwing away different architectures, and not knowing who to sell Amiga hardware to. This is all VERY well documented.

DOOM's trial was under a shareware license. You got free marketing by being the most copied PC game in existence and benefitted greatly from it. 90% of people illegally copying the full version doesn't change that if you're outdoing Windows in install frequency.

Lastly, this additude is exactly why piracy exists. You need to directly and openly address the needs of people copying or they will not respect your boundaries. Games were always expensive, especially back then, and the internet changed the way distribution worked. People who illegally copy media today are also the biggest spenders. Let me tell you about myself. When I was a kid I didn't have money. I pirated shit all the time because it was the only way I was allowed to participate. Six years ago I pirated Cyberpunk 2077 because I did not want to pay full price for a game that was infamous for not working. I bought it months later because I liked it. I pirated dozens of movies because all of the easily accessible distribution methods are protected by Widevine malware, and the alternative is to spend way too much on a Bluray for my disc collection that I also don't own, and then decrypt it using a pirate program, which is illegal. If they didn't make being a customer so difficult, I wouldn't have done any of that. The story is the same for nearly everyone else you're pointing the finger at. To blame piracy is to completely ignore the factors which encouraged it, which can be tamed by the company who released the software if they have any theory of mind.

If you look up my Steam account today, I've spent thousands of dollars over the past decade on video games alone, and that's only on one store. Pirates are more than happy to pay for things that they want. If your game is being pirated, then that is something you are doing wrong.

the online right is making the leftoid discord server now

GAB [dot] AI shutting down?

Either they're really fucking bad at networking, or they're doing this intentionally.

You wanna host a website? Host it anywhere you want, it's not like the hosting company is gonna know what's running on it...

Frontend: Cloudflare
Backend, email sender, etc: Use a goddamn VPN.

You don't know the IP address of Pkteerium (hint: It's not OVH) and this is a dumb personal project.

@xianc78 I love it when i get some account of like a right wing political dude following me because I liked one thing they posted lol. I don't think they know what to expect.

KOSA just passed we have officially become the Uk the only things we have left is fedi,guns and linux I hate the government

Gab Could be Going Offline Per news from Andrew Torba.

Nintendo should buy back Rare. I want a new perfect dark game dammit.

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"Woke Capitalism" Is Not What You Think.
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