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Penny Arcade - Comic - Validation Syndrome
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Reason: master_sword
A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.
Master__sword
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/20/millennials-more-likely-to-support-censo
If you are ok with companies and artists being bullied into self censorship by idealouges, because you "dont care" for the thing being censored, you are a part of the problem. Our democracy is damaged when people are only willing to defend freedoms that they currently enjoy. Censorship is still censorship, even when it comes from a place other than law.
Feeling this way, I'm astonished that you still post on this forum, knowing that the corporation of Penny Arcade will censor your views if you choose to be offensive to the other people on these forums. Is not the moderation of Tube and the mods expressly against your ideas of freedom of speech?
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
The original Pew Research poll linked in that libertarian blog:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities/
The more interesting thing from that poll is that the US is an anomaly.
There are MANY questions here, not answers. Are millennials simply more aligned with views espoused by Europeans because of the globalization of media? What about the 27% of the Gen Xers and 24% of Boomers who also believe this? What would happen to the poll if you asked the questions in a more specific or precise manner? (Do you believe in jailing people who say offensive things? What about fines instead? Should police be involved?)
Nothing from this poll suggests "censorship is still censorship, even when it comes from a place other than law", either. It is specifically targeted toward government censorship against language harmful to racial minorities. It also doesn't target LGBT issues or religious views.
EDIT: Whoops, not against racial minorities, against language harmful to racial minorities.
How would I know that's specifically what you meant? You, and others, have railed on this forum about how wrong it is for, say, Gawker to close their comments section as that is censorship. How on earth could I possibly keep track of what inalienable rights you take unto yourself on the private money of others?
I mean I've seen people in the hub seriously talk as if my not buying a video game because I dislike the politics of the game as being the same thing as censorship. As if game companies are owed my money whether I like their game or not.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I think you are confused, it could be because I'm not clear. The poll shows that there is a very real difference between the views of millenials and the previous generation when it comes to censorship. Specifically "American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups".
"I" contend that censorship is censorship. When a work is made not available, then its not available. Whether by government hand or idealouges, the result is the same.
Today is boxing day, a day only slightly less drenched in evil than Black Friday. Plus I'm stuck at work for another 30 min.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Well, "stuck at work for another 30 minutes" was meant to communicate, "I'll no longer care about this conversation in 30 minutes."
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Who are you talking to, and how are they supposed to know or care that you think conversation is now done? If you don't like a thread topic maybe you should make a final post that says "Tube doesn't like this topic" and then just close the thread? Alternatively you could just let people make, on topic, posts in a thread, on a forum whose sole purpose is for such activity.
He was talking to you and to me, and we're supposed to know because he just told us.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
one might even infer from this that the authors' position w/r/t the industry had changed in that time
the above poster said what I've felt about this stuff for a while; tycho can engage with this stuff or not if he thinks it's worthwhile, but if he doesn't then it really shouldn't be the subject of a 750 word newspost where the reader is told how passe it all is
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
They certainly sold more than they would have without this so-called "controversy".
This whole thing is fascinating to me. So much wailing and gnashing of teeth over anime boobs.
I'd have to see some kind of firm proof of that, I wouldn't take it on assumption. Because the audience for a bad volleyball video game, even one with lots of boobs, is already a select one. It's easy enough to find pictures and videos of real boobs on the internet for free. The people who bought the game are the people who would have bought it anyway. No one else wanted to buy it.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"