I tried posting this to KiA, but I never realized how many KiA Prime people are blue pilled thinking things will go back to normal after this.
Seeing how most of you here are far more aware of what's going on, I'm going to copy pasta what I posted on Prime before the dumb mods deleted it since most of you aren't rabid TDers but also understand the "bigger picture":
My original post below.
So all the things we warned about 6 years ago has more or less come to fruition, and the safeguards and actions we took to keep it from getting worse has more or less been removed or neutralized to allow unethical behavior, blatant biased news that denigrates gamers and other arbitrary groups is now everywhere. Every gaming urinalist and game development outlet has an Anita Sarkeesian type or 10 working for them. Reddit went from a place where disparate ideologies could bicker with each other to a site where small pockets of "The resistance" (moderates, conservatives) are allowed to stay quarantined in certain areas but the ideological moderation is rampant in other subs.
Youtube, Twitter, etc., the stuff the normies consume that aren't alt-tech have now openly abused Section 230 in open defiance of the current administration. The mask has come off, and we've run out of options at this point at any possible way to enforce full on freedom of expression and speech under the law.
Where do we go from here?
We have alt-tech, but as many of you have realized, alt-tech popularity undermined by the mainstream outlets that try to demonize them. We now have a giant ideological chasm between us moderate lefties and right wingers and the establishment "liberals". It's unrepairable, so where do we go from here?
All the things you "consoom" has been tainted by this stuff. You can only resort to removing yourself from that pool so much until it comes to a point where you are essentially isolating yourself from society, so where do we go from here? If everything has SocJus, if everything has TOSes that violate freedom of expression, then what is left to turn to?
What is practical that we can do tomorrow while continuing our everyday lives on this bucket of a planet we call Earth?
How is it for new players?
It... depends.
EVE is a bit like Elite:Dangerous in that you're pretty terrible at the start and unless you're willing to drop cash money to get some skill boosters you kinda just have to muscle through it.
Frankly if you've watched Log Horizon, it's a bit like that but in space. Player groups like EVE University exist and they will teach players how to be self sufficient and work in teams. The large alliances have programs to get new players up and running as well. Ultimately it's down to whether or not you become mentally invested in being part of it, and accepting that it's gonna take a while to get to where you feel good at what you're doing and comfortable with what you can fly and lose and replace.
If you stick with it long enough, and find a community you fit into, then there's literally nothing else like it in gaming. If you're playing EVE right, you'll make friends in EVE; people you will genuinely enjoy talking with and flying with.