SOPA, PIPA, and some of Trumps recent deals, are all trade deals, treaties, and other international agreements, with some things in common. They are all ENORMOUS HUGE, but there were various terrible things in them.
Some of the components of the agreements, would have had encryption back doors (such as Australia now does have), super-oppresive copyright laws (we did get some of that), super anti-piracy laws (identity and logging requirements in e-comerce, or with information handlers, etc).
To be honest, each piece of legislation has to be handled on its own, due to them simply being so large, and covering such a massive range of policy.
Obama's surrendering of American control of ICAN, is more difficult to unpack. It's been claimed that, by allowing international actors to more directly control the lowest-level of internet names and addresses, the US has less control over the internet overall. OTOH, it's not clear what has actually changed because of this, or how America was previously using/benefiting-from that putative control.
Net neutrality, is basically Anti-Monopoly policy for ISPs. Basically, it says that if you handle internet traffic, you must handle it all at the same speed/price - regardless of content, who it came from, or where it's going.
What we have now, thanks to Trump and Ajit Pai, is a situation in which Walmart can pay Spectrum to insert a 30min delay before loading "target.com". More importantly, Spectrum can go to them and force them both to pay more so that neither one gets the privilge. Worst of all, ALL the tech companies will be willing to charge more, and serve less, serve slower, any newcomers. Amazon and Microsft Azure might not agree on a lot, but they both agree no one should enter the ring with them.
Honestly, the fall of Net Neutrality was a dangerous step in the wrong direction.
The "baaad history" of white people (OTHER RACES HAVE WORSE HISTORIES) is being used to justify a genocidal hatred towards white people. Pure evil wants to conquer the world.
This is not news. It also won't magically transfigure mistakes into useful choices.
We police ourselves, so that we do not have to pay the price of being surrounded by yet another variety of reckless, vile ideologues, spouting yet another variety of dishonest, self-serving rhetoric.
It's the same reason we would want our actual police to arrest conservatives when they shoplift, when they attack, etc.
I don't waste brain cells taking them seriously anymore. I just treat all their outbursts as fart noises. My company is slowly leaning into the terminology. They're currently mass-deploying the "uncomfortable conversations" lingo. It's going to be interesting when they start sending us to "how many lights are there" trainings.
I intend to just deny and resist until fired. I don't really have any plans after that. Die I guess.
I'm fine with politics in art, in games. I'm just not going to play one with politics I don't like. MAN THE FUCK UP.
Refuse to play games that have shit in them. STOP PIRATING. You're still fostering the ecosystem by sustaining the popularity! Don't play Borderlands with your buds.
Don't watch videos on it. Don't read articles on it. Vote with your wallet, your mouse, your time, and your eyeballs!
Zevran is as bad with himself, and what he does to others in society, what he encourages and supports and defends and induces others to do, as any pimp.
Many "porn stars" become pimps, or do some pimping. There is no upside to that industry. It doesn't have an innocent part.
Did Malek catch flack for that, too? I remember some retarded twitter twats trying to "le epic roast" Night at The Museum for having a "hwite" Pharoah. Even though the dude's parents are not just from Egypt, I believe they came from a coptic community, which means that they're ethnically Egyptian.
It would be cool to cast actual Egyptians - but they're pretty white. Also, they've been significantly genocided by the Arabs.
You'd have to be pretty based to stand up for them. I don't think they even stand up for themselves anymore. Too many generations of slavery. I think essentially all Egyptians are muslims by now.
Don't waste effort on gaslighting. Blacklist a person and move on. This tweetboi made the only necessary comment:
Holden D Center (@center_holden)
Replying to @RottenInDenmark
It's an argument that 1619 is the country's true founding, not 1776. Stephens is rebutting that argument. That's how discourse goes. I'm not sure what you're asserting here.
edit: That was not a criticism of posting this here. Just some free life advice. ;)
These people think that producing value for an economy depends on "The White Man" deciding physical law. These people think that producing value for an economy depends on "systems of power" deciding whether bridges stand or fall, how crops perform, how the weather works, how diseases work.
Green New Deal? Yeah - the world has had enough "Great Leap[s] Forward". But these people don't understand that. They only know authority. They can't fathom that there is a right way to live, or necessary ways to run a country.
Are they people? They might not have all the mental faculties that Definite-People have. Maybe we should call them "Pseudo People".
Don't fall into the trap of believing everything "your tribe" does it right, or that any argument against "you" must be a bad argument. This is classic "but I learned it from you, Dad!" territory.
This is the best argument against Cancel Culture. That it's exactly what christian zealots and Class Supremacists have been doing for decades. If we fought them and won, then we should fight Cancel Culture. And we can win.
But don't fall into the trap of defending the people whose past excesses brought us all to this point.
Oh yeah, bills to elevate Net Neutrality to a law, have been uniformly trojan-horse garbage. 100%.
This is why we can't have nice things.