Gaming journalism turned away from reviewing games and industry news, and into activism. KIA has always been about exposing the corruption.

Vox's take is where I stole this headline.

I agree with some of what he's saying: "The degree to which these companies are insisting that they are more like a phone company than they are like The Atlantic, I do not think is tenable. They are making editorial choices, whether they’ve buried them in algorithms or not."

That's the censorship we've been seeing across all these sites, and it's putting the tech companies in the role of a publisher.

That's the opposite of what I just said.

You mean that Reefer Madness that I've heard talk about?

Remember when the freaks were always inclusive and tolerant?

There was a movement where people wanted to stand out and be actually different, to prove to the world it was more than fine, it was cool. At some point in the last decade it became an exclusive club, where even a slight difference of cultures or views was unacceptable.

I'm sorry those television shows aren't your exact fantasy!

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230#c

Facebook deleting groups because they're wrong-think is absolutely not in good faith, and the law was made to protect ISPs and Library networks.

As soon as you go beyond spam removal and troll patrol, and start deleting the President's posts or any reference to atrazine causing a potent endocrine disruption in amphibians, you're getting into all the liability of a publisher.

I believe the lawsuits must prove damages. For Facebook and Youtube, ad-clicks and page-views are people's livelihoods. That's where all the lawsuits will be, no need to worry about the Hello Kitty Island Adventure Wiki.

Edit:

Communications with dynamic web content is actually a pretty nuanced topic, but here's my simplistic opinion. I'm saying that with lawsuits on the table, big players can step back and barely moderate, allowing free speech, or they can entirely push people off their site with an honest policy. Deplatforming dissenters might be the best case for civil rights though, if there's no "algorithm" to invisibly mess with discovery and ad revenue. It's well within the website owner's rights to ban anyone they don't like, they just can't claim to be airports and the sky when they're the airlines.

Make the internet splintered again. Diversity of thought, arenas of ideas.

Don't travel with that. Buy some new weed from a local farmer with tegridy.

It's still a federally scheduled drug somehow. MT cops will steal your drugs (and smoke them), so don't be brazen (blazin').

They have been a big proponent of anti-censorship software, including TOR and Signal, and they made HTTPS-everywhere. However, they do focus on censorship by governments much more than with online services.

They've had a hand in the Lumen project (Previously Chilling Effects) which lists DMCA takedowns.

The "silencing political opponents" is only an issue if you view Twitter and Youtube as public "platforms", instead of some private website. As we all know, they're politically-curated content publishers much like this forum. Anyone can make their own reddit or youtube, the hard part is getting people to use those alternatives.

If EFF wants to side with electronic liberty instead of compelled fairness, I'm with them. Of course they must also agree with me that Twitter and Reddit etc. are then liable for all the content they publish, protections from Section 230 must not apply.

I don't think the EFF know how to "fix" censorship by tech giants, or see it as needing a discussion. We already know how to fix it, and we are here on .win hardware because of it.

Make sure you wear a mask when kissing your Grandma over the phone this Thanksgiving.

http://slavazhdanov.ru/portfolio low resolution, I found some larger versions with ddg.

“Trum Pum Pum” by Vyacheslav Zhdanov

I wish people would stop equating pure leftism with Californians. A lot of people leave because they can't stand the liberals, not to spoil your conservative paradise.

explore racism, who should get to define it, and why, highlighting research from her latest book, "Why Race Still Matters."

They're redefining language in order to cling to racism.

it is not good, it is a threat to democracy that these people are in echo chambers, and they’re being fed a diet of lies, essentially.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

take away guns

Don't tell me that, pal, or I'm going to go outside with your ass.

I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.

just walk out on the balcony here--walk out, put that double barrel shot gun and fire two blasts outside the house -- I promise you whoever is coming in ... You don't need an AR-15, it's harder to aim, it's harder to use...Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun.

Let's be fair, she seems like an expert in her field, and she enjoys the gaming consoles she's reviewing. The writing style is jokingly referential, while the experience was described in detail. High effort.

Now, my reaction to this existing: wat.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

-John Gilmore

Thank you for trying to explain your fears with evidence. I'm not seeing any good way to structure my thoughts on this, so I'll just reply to things as I see them.

60-GHz oxygen band: precise broadening and central frequencies of fine-structure lines, absolute absorption profile at atmospheric pressure, and revision of mixing coefficients

The information obtained in course of this work can be applied to Earth atmosphere remote sensing, microwave wireless communication, and industrial applications (see e.g.[27]), as well as for fundamental spectroscopic studies.

It's talking about the atmosphere, this was about modeling experiments better. It's using the same graph I posted earlier.

Effects of millimeter wave irradiation and equivalent thermal heating on the activity of individual neurons in the leech ganglion

the recognized U.S. safe exposure limit is 1 mW/cm2 for 6 min

https://www.powerwatch.org.uk/science/unitconversion.asp ~61 V/m

That could heat your core body temperature 1°C if maintained for hours, which has no proven health effects, but is suspected dangerous (heat stroke is only a few degrees internal temperature diff), that's why our 5G standards are 6 V/m (0.1°C) at maximum usage. There are a lot of factors in this, but I'd recommend reading the icnirp paper for a solid overview.

This study then takes nerve clusters from leeches, and irradiates them with 894 V/m for 1 minute and sees how crispy they are.

A series of different mesh sizes, frequencies, geometric areas, and other parameter variations were used to confirm the absence of strong frequency-specific resonances or variations of MMW signal strength across the biological sample.

The purpose was to see how inhibited the nerves were when heated gradually in a bath versus with microwaves.

we observed an initial MMW-dose suppression of the firing rate (Fig. 5E), which might have been caused by an initially high thermal gradient. After 20–30 s of MMW exposure, as the heating gradient across the tissue becomes less pronounced, the exposure at higher IPD levels (2 and 4 mW/cm2) becomes less inhibitory.

They concluded that temporary pain relief might be some application.

What evidence is there in the reddit links? "So Corona in latin translates to crown/garland. You can again see the relevant symbolism to the medias CGI model of the virus." We know that they look like a sun under the microscope, that's why we named them that way.

Effects include increased risk of cancer, cellular stress, increased harmful free radicals, genetic damage, structural and functional changes in the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders

Where's the evidence? Bring more than "scientists agree".

Jerry Flynn's saying wifi causes autism, alzheimer's, parkinson's, and all sorts of other things. His comments on 5G (apocalypse). He makes a lot of mistakes when speaking, for example he claims 1 to 5GHz encompass the "2G, 3G, 4G, 5G" cell phone frequencies or calling every oscillating magnetic field "wifi". He's not a smart man, he's an alarmist with very little critical thinking skill, although I believe him when he says the industry isn't sympathetic to his cause. That's why I'm giving you the chance to explain, let's discover the truth of this matter.

Lena Pu hasn't published her blood study yet. I like that she's testing real-world exposure, but she seems pretty unscientific with her assertions.

240 scientists

research & the consensus of scientists in this particular field

a crazy nut like Musk

Haha, yeah.

1,670 Peer-Reviewed Scientific Papers

Right, go ahead and find the papers with evidence of non-thermal 5G injury.

Have you ever been watching a movie and there were black-only commercials? I find them fascinating, since they're targeting a demographic with nearly identical ads, but where all the actors "look like you" instead of a multi-racial politically correct casting. That marketing function to appeal to people on a familial and slightly racist level is perfectly reasonable to me, and I see these minority-only shows as just targeting a certain demo the same way those ads do. Pandering to racists shouldn't be illegal, nobody is forcing anyone to watch televised media, and it probably attracts more than it alienates.

If it's too woke for comfort, then they will lose viewers, as we have seen. If it's throwing in a token Hispanic for the Latino Housewife demographic, then more power to `em. It's a free country.

Edit: I get that you're pointing out the hypocrisy, but it's not like it's hurting anyone (but possibly their ratings).

Obligatory

I don't read Kotaku, but did they mention this very important controversy?

25 years of muscle memory, a society where X means no, and O means okay. ?‍♂️?‍♂️

Say all you want about the cheap hardware or the woke corporate policy, that change is why I'm not considering a PS5. Configurable controls are essential.

A streaming TV mobile app (with ads) was banned from r/cordcutters after two spam posts, then site-wide for "harassment". Thought Reddit was "organic".

I think it's pretty funny that a "startup" wants a slice of the Streaming Video Rip Off pie, but doesn't immediately realize their expensive facebook ads linked to the wrong page. It doesn't seem like they have a lawyer either.

So your troll account was banned? I don't get why you'd care about posting on twitter.

found this

I’m sincerely asking you to reflect on using the word “press” and calling yourself “journalists”, you enemy of truth and freedom.