Blair

21m 🏳️‍🌈| scifi lover| i love a good debate and love getting to know people

[T ☭ @starbursterfilm]

All this because you lazy fucks couldnt be arsed parenting your kids

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The Stop Killing Games campaign just had one of its biggest moments in the European Parliament.

During a debate in Strasbourg, many Members of the European Parliament spoke in support of better consumer rights for video games. Most speakers agreed that companies should not be able to shut down games that people had already paid for.

Support came from several political groups, including the Greens, Renew Europe, S&D, The Left, and even some EPP members

Many MEPs said games should be treated more like products than temporary online services. They argued that buyers should not lose access just because a company ends support or shifts players to a newer title.

Some MEPs criticized the European Commission for not taking stronger action. There are concerns it may issue only a non-binding statement instead of new laws.

The debate showed that Stop Killing Games is now being taken seriously at the highest political level in Europe.
The discussion is no longer only about gaming but also about digital ownership, consumer rights, and companies’ obligations after purchase.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@commontruth_ The case with Henry Nowak, from what I have heard on social media so far. Has been entirely one-sided, and seems like everyone is simply speculating about what happened dispite not being there or there being any publicly verified evidence of who is was in wrong.

[🏳️‍🌈Donate to food banks & shelters please @SamAburime]

NCOSE was 'Morality in Media' until 2015. These far right religious orgs keep peddling that sex in fiction corrupts people in real life, cartoons and video games are dangerous and something people must be protected from or they'll be come sexually abusive porn addicts.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@Emmett31539642 @MyOwnerBites @juliecbarrett ISP's and search engine providers can make it increasingly difficult to find the correct sources online by burying them under hundred thousands of results.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@Emmett31539642 @MyOwnerBites @juliecbarrett That is why you need to use multiple layers. Use the parental controls on the phone, on sim card, on your home router and If need be tell your ISP to outright block access explicit and adult content.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@USCitizen384240 @1776Diva All books will have some form of propaganda it is next to impossible to remove all of it. Due to the fact everyone has their own interpretation of book. If anything all non-fiction books should be made available to school aged kids regardless of political leaning

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Heterosexuals are so fragile they believe a little exposure to homosexuality in movies or books will turn them gay.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@Frankie_1643 For those on benefits who earn more than this, the case i believe is mostly either out-of-work-benefits/PIP or out of work and the extra they get for each child they have

[Mouse | Nap Era | 💙⚰️🪦🕊️•🐜🗑️👍 @adybpt]

Fandom should've remained niche, the moment people started disagreeing with AO3's principal message of freedom of artistic expression and actually supported moral panic and pro-censorship stances was the moment we all should've locked down. Hard.

[Cultist Zolon @CultistZolon]

We never needed governments to step in and de-anonymize the internet in order to protect children.

What we needed was education - 26 years ago - about responsible technology use and internet behavior. We needed parents to learn and understand what their children were doing with their tech and teach, monitor, and discipline. Not one class about "being nice on the internet". Year after year education about responsible use of technology.

We can build a better internet for tomorrow by starting today - by putting internet behavior and responsible technology use classes in every school, at every level. To understand how to behave, how to respect others, how to use digital devices responsibly, how to identify threats, scams and dangers. To spot misinformation and think for themselves. To stop spending hours and hours on infinite scroll applications that devour and degrade their attention spans and ability to process and create memories.

But that guidance needs to teach the why, not just tell us "this is bad!" Children should understand the costs of spending their lives in front of a screen just as they learn the dangers of smoking or why it's important to try to eat healthy foods. Teenagers should be guided and taught to make decisions about their activities for themselves and understand why social media is terrible for mental health, and why, as they become adults and learn to parent, they should monitor their own children's activities and share what they've learned with their own children. To learn to be there when their kids have questions, to understand before judging.

New parents need to understand how crucial it is not to just slap their kids in front of their phones to occupy them when they're busy. They need to understand when it's appropriate to set children up with different accounts of their own, and how to monitor their usage and ensure healthy limits. We need to rebuild the spaces in the Internet that are meant to be safe for children, giving them a place to safely express themselves and learn.

And we need to do this as a society, so we can improve the coming generations together.

When the internet was born, our governments failed to build the systems to help society learn it's responsible use. We let companies take over and social media run rampant and build worse and worse things that manipulated our base instincts, and now we're seeing the consequences of two decades of that.

We have to do better. We CAN do better.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@shinobipunch @illyriapg @magicalstarlite There was even a fire at universal studios i think where decades worth of original film was lost

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@oaedoel @TruthAgape @AndriaDont99498 I'm open to hearing more about your point view if your willing.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@oaedoel @TruthAgape @AndriaDont99498 On the note of the "Gay propaganda in kids tv shows"

Not aware of what is like in shows available in the USA. For the shows here in the UK all that has been done for most part is the making of characters with two mummies/daddies in the more popular shows.

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@Red1928985 @RemembahDems @MillyPooh3 @TruthAgape @AndriaDont99498 Have you ever heard of something called the "vocal minority"

Have you actually met someone who is trans face to face yourself and actually held a conversation with them, if not you have little ground to stand on with what type person they are

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@ChrisRetford @IsThisA3DModel That's mainly down to fact that ai generative models can't make original content. They're trained on existing content, so they use pattern recognition and predictive algorithms to guess what image you are wanting based off of the prompt you give it.

[John "F" Fountain @FountainCartoon]

Sigh

Same old thing…

I’ve said it a million times:

I’m not against the technology, I’m against its unethical use.

For every one “undiscovered genius” in the middle of nowhere who studies storytelling and only uses software that works from licensed sources to make their heartfelt student film you’ve got ten thousand grifter Fratboy douchebags making Velma with big tits and proclaiming themselves the next Spielberg.

When faced with the slightest pushback, the blathering genAI acolytes you cater to jump straight onto the bigoted “old man yelling at clouds” conclusion that this has anything to do with “advancements” and “technology.”

All I’ve ever called for is that we pump the brakes and have a nuanced discussion on the issue. That’s it. That’s all.

The response I get from your camp is always the same: “Step aside, old man!”

The fact that so few of you can even comprehend the nature of the issue’s ethical dilemmas is astounding and indicative of the core of the problem: You got so excited about what COULD be done, you didn’t stop to think about whether or not it SHOULD be done.

I highly recommend you watch my video on this topic and get back to me with your reaction, because what we truly need are more honest discussions on the matter and less disingenuous rhetoric.

https://t.co/1EUwdO75Rs…

[Blair @ProgramAthiest]

@LegademaC @FountainCartoon Before they brought out the image generative models. The main selling point of ai was that it would take on the manual labour jobs that are normally dangerous for humans; freeing up time for creative pursuits.