The difference was that was the management of those companies and not the creative content of the games, like today. It wasn't until the 360 era that companies really began to push what customers were comfortable with.
I don't think you understand what fascism was. It does not just mean totalitarian or oppressive. If you think that Trump and the right wing have been slandered, then you shouldn't be surprised to know that very similar propaganda was used against many other nationalist parties in the past. The more successful they were at opposing international finance, the worse the propaganda.
I'm just saying that "Free speech but not obscenity" isn't far from "Free speech but not hate speech" because where you draw the line is always subjective. As long as they have clear criteria for what is allowed and what is not then that's fine, but they don't need to dress it up to justify themselves.
I'm fine that they don't allow it as well, but the way they justify it can be bad. Saying "We aren't developing this platform for porn" is good, but saying "Porn isn't speech, stop being a degenerate" is just asking to push people away from your site.
It seems like you need a phone number to use Telegram, which could be a deal breaker for some people. And I believe Element/Matrix can ban you based on your user name, but they still can't see any of your encrypted messages.
China is still heavily dependent on the western world. The US has been at "record high stocks" as well, which doesn't actually mean much when talking about the overall economy. China is only influential because the forces within the western world allow it to keep growing.
I've known some on social media. From my experience the things that stand out the most are being overly self-important and no introspection or no desire to admit mistakes. I just watched this video of Marx's life and I can see the connection there.
Of course it's just personal anecdotes, but I haven't seen any communists who act anywhere close to a "noble" manner.
Yeah all of the corporate statements say stuff like "We denounce the horrible violence that happened at the capitol" I'm guessing they really wished there was a shootout and not the most notable thing being a civilian killed by security.
Yesterday I went back to look at that passage. It feels more relevant than ever.
One of the biggest things I can see is the education and health of children. If you can clearly display the truth to a generation or two of children and have them raised well enough to be prepared for the world they have entered, things can go well. Many kids are not indoctrinated enough to reject ideas simply because they are thoughtcrime.
I'm not particularly affected if things I see are poisoned by this ideology, because I can "see the matrix" and identify exactly where it's pushing the narrative. Children and regular people can't on the other hand, and that's where "normalization" actually does play a large part in terms of changing people's values.
Most Communists are either naive, or fully knowing and want to exploit people. The naive ones want some sense of community and justice, they just have no idea how that will get accomplished. They take the media, peer pressure, and current narratives, at face value which is that we need to strive for equality (and equity), and anybody strong or competent needs to give up what they have for other people to live better. Fueled far more by emotion than truth.
The exploiters are the communists who understand that it's just a tool for usurping power. They know that their rhetoric is filled with lies, but they use it anyways because it's effective. Often using a complete 180 inversion of the truth and pushing that for their narrative.
Essentially they are a coalition of losers and liars, who don't care about destroying things as long as they will be the ones in power.
They removed it because Gootecks made a tweet about the woman who was shot by police today.
Edit: If anybody can't get an archive, here is his tweet.
For politics: Asha Logos, Vertigo Politix, American Krogan
For games: Mattewmatosis, Ross Game Dungeon, Sseth, Mandalore, Jerma, Cybershell, Core-A Gaming
For history: Historia Civilis, Histocrat
General: Ashens, Baumgartner Restoration, Real Engineering, Wendover Productions
And a general group of some other political channels that I only occasionally watch: Charlemagne, Academic Agent, Blackpilled, Computing Forever, Alt Hype, Survive the Jive, Way of the World, Morgoth's Review, Intellectual Embargo, Counter Arguments
Some of them are only on bitchute so if you can't find it on youtube then just search on there.
The type of person I'm talking about is one who only has personal experience of anti-porn being caused by religious dogma. They define the "battle lines" of the culture war based on things that happened decades ago and are behind the times.
The average person has no idea of the acts of terrorism that have happened before their childhood. You could ask them about the holodomor and they wouldn't have a clue.
Most of reddit in general is, the default subs especially.
They don't care about the truth, they care about pushing the narrative. If something does not support the narrative, then it must be attacked or discredited.
Many of them are anti-porn, but only because it gives males an option to avoid female demands. To see how "traditional" they are, ask if they think being a stay at home mother is more honorable than being a single employee.
Lots of people are just stuck in the 90's and assume that being anti-porn in any way goes hand in hand with puritanical Christianity.
The principled thing to do would be putting male or female instead. Of course you would still get targeted by sycophants, but I think you'd be able to justify it to management.