@Becky___XOXO@BackersGamesF@TimSweeneyEpic@evankinney Company extracted what it needed. Now please bugger off and remain silent as you scramble to find a senior role in an environment where everyone else is laying off workforce.
- your friendly corporation from next door
@UbiMassive At the moment just about every big company in that biz is firing people.
You had ZERO pressure to sugar coat this in words that make it seem like you're not doing what the others do. All you achieved is show how distanced you are from people's realities and ability to comprehend
Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, https://t.co/p8izycqtcO, and others to pull violent and adult video games from their platforms. They continue to remain silent on the reason WHY they enforced the restrictions on the companies. I surmise they are gagged from speaking through likely threat of regulatory pressure.
May I introduce, Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
https://t.co/J3SY1jSNkD
This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet. This claim he makes is not based on unbiased scientific testing.
In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades.
https://t.co/LrJF6zoZrQ
https://t.co/doR1ZReN4F
https://t.co/cNZEVTahd7
Now, as his position in the CFPB, he has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago.
This was ALL done in the guise of protecting the children. Admittedly, it is a very solid tactic, at the core. But, if you use the mantra of protecting the children, it tends to mean that it's just a ploy, usually to further a specific agenda.
They are a threat against the United States, nay, the entire world. They are a threat against our democracy, a threat against free speech, and a threat against gamers, a threat against media in general.
These are the same people who believe violent video games cause violent things. An entire generation of individuals have been playing Grand Theft Auto, playing Doom, Quake, and other games, but we are not currently, nor will we face a worldwide pandemic of armed car robberies, driving on sidewalks for the fun of it, or people running around with sawed off shotguns killing demons, or raping people, because a video game was made exploring the content.
Those in power have been eroding free speech in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to online platforms from liability for content posted by their users. They are actively attempting to kill this protection to further their goals outlined in Project 2025, by passing liabilities of their userbase onto the operators via financial regulation threats and pressure, thus killing speech directly, while still keeping in the shadows publicly.
"He filmed the crimes and posted monetized rape videos on P*rnhub, earning revenue for him and the site owners."
https://t.co/b00YlsVtX7
This is their attempt to kill section 230 immunity.
You should not be frightened that they MAY come into power, they are ALREADY IN POWER. They are exercising it spectacularly, taking baby steps to erode away your speech, and we've all been asleep at the wheel.
Ich glaube die 364 gehen zurück auf ne mögliche Panne beim Transmitter im Auto, ähnlich wie neulich bei der F1 einige Autos im Tableau hoch und runterpurzelten. #fraglemans
@deutschetelekom
Ganz bestimmt nicht. Ich komme wirklich ins Grübeln wie sehr ich diesen Konzern weiterhin unterstützen möchte, zumindest unter so einer Art von Führung.. Ich glaube hier ist nicht "Bürokratie" der ausgemachte Feind sondern Wettbewerbsrecht
https://t.co/kHiWdeDM6V
I'm not leaving X and letting right-wing extremists keep this platform to themselves, but I will most certainly focus a lot more on other places, one of which will be Mastodon:
https://t.co/XvtWNHCRO0
Heute haben 124 MdBs den Antrag über die Einleitung eines Verfahrens zur Feststellung der Verfassungswidrigkeit der (faschistischen) AfD angemeldet. Die Debatte dazu wird kommende Woche abgehalten.
When I started talking about Oligarchy, many people didn't understand what I meant.
Well, that's changed.
When the 3 wealthiest men in America sit behind Trump at his inauguration, everyone understands that the billionaire class now controls our government.
We must fight back.