Minecraft and Call of Duty community servers have been branded "illegal" and compared to the "black market" by the Entertainment Software Association
The comments came during a debate over preserving games after official servers shut down
📢 “Do not claim to speak for children while ignoring them everywhere else.”
@StopKilingGames is joining a massive global coalition to launch Stop Killing the Internet alongside @BigBrotherWatch , @IndexCensorship , @OpenRightsGroup , @defenddigitalme , @NO2ID , @sflc , @digiges_ch , Hosting Haven, @OpenMediaOrg , IuRe, @LabDRN , @techfdemocracy , Electronic Frontiers Australia, @EuropeanPirates , @AlderonGames , @RWSstudios , @ProgressiveVic and the @EuEthInstitute .
👀 From KOSA to Chat Control, governments worldwide are pushing a synchronized agenda of surveillance, censorship, and digital access restrictions. This infrastructure doesn't just threaten the open web, it puts gaming communities, private servers, and digital preservation directly in the crosshairs.
🤝 We are building a global hub for research and resistance to challenge this dangerous shift toward state-controlled platforms.
💪 We need all hands on deck.
Join the movement: https://t.co/GQ7GgGkPnk
🙌 The answer to online safety cannot be the surveillance and censorship we were warned about in Orwell's 1984. It’s time to fight back!
#StopKillingInternet #StopKillingGames #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #Privacy
Hello friends, family, and buddees, this is Mikavey's husband, @Jeff1pnt3. On May 29th, 2026, Mikavey entered into the arms of Heaven to behold the face of her savior, Jesus Christ. She suffered a hemmorhagic stroke on May 10th, and although she seemed to be getting better during her first week of recovery, the doctors were unequipped to deal with her muscular dystrophy.
I have never experienced a deeper sorrow than the one I have been carrying since the end of May. Even 1 month later, it is gut-wrenching to be writing this to you all. We were planning out how we would celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary at the end of July, and instead, I am now planning how we will celebrate her life. In spite of everything, I continue to hold onto the hope that I will see my Mika again, because that was the same hope she held onto as we drove her to the hospital on May 10th.
There are a number of projects that Mika left for me to finish, so I will continue to work on them until they come to fruition:
The first one will be an artbook+website compiling as much of her work as possible. I have always been so proud of my love's work, and I want to make sure it is both preserved and as accessible as possible.
Second will be working on her accessible fashion brand so that there would be more cute clothing and accessories available for others with mobility limitations like her own.
And the next one will be honoring her final wish for me when she was in the hospital- to finish The Nightwatch. The Nightwatch is not just a single project, but multiple projects spanning albums and video games. It's the story of us, and it's something we've both poured ourselves into since the day we met almost 7 years ago. I can promise you all just as I had promised her, The Nightwatch will be finished. There are quite a few more projects outside of the ones I have listed, but those are the only ones I feel comfortable sharing for now.
Thank you all for your love and support for my beautiful wife over the years. She had every right to be jaded because of her muscular dystophy, but she never was. If you had the opportunity to meet her, you would have known that Mika was one of the most beautiful and charitable souls on this earth. She never used her muscular dystrophy as an excuse, but instead sought to show others the same kindness and patience that she wished to see in the world. To put it simply, she was a 1 in 8 billion type of woman, and I am so proud to be her husband.
Our lives blossomed from the moment we met one another, and honoring her will be why I continue to create.
Thank you all for loving her, because she sure loved you.
-Jeffrey Barr
The internet might be over.
I am not talking about the corporate, ad-filled internet. I mean the real one. The one you use to talk with your friends, find niche communities, and freely share ideas. The way you access and interact with the digital world is about to change forever if we don't speak up right now.
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the KIDS Act. Do not let the well-intentioned name fool you. This massive legislative package is a wolf in sheep’s clothing that could potentially cause an unfathomable amount of damage to the privacy, security, and free speech of every single citizen in the United States.
Major civil liberties and digital rights organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) are sounding the alarm. This bill is a massive over-reach of legislation designed to curtail your freedoms, everyones.
Under this bill, websites and apps will be pressured to verify the age of all users to avoid massive legal liability. This creates a de facto age-verification mandate, meaning you could soon be forced to upload government IDs, passports, or hand over biometric facial scans just to use standard apps or browse everyday websites. Forcing every corner of the web to collect and store these massive databases of citizen identity documents is an absolute cybersecurity nightmare waiting to happen, creating a golden target for hackers and data leaks.
The bill also takes direct aim at standard privacy features like disappearing or ephemeral messaging, treating basic digital privacy tools like dangerous design tricks rather than the digital equivalent of a private, real-world conversation. By weaponizing broad, vague definitions of "harmful content," the package pressures tech platforms to heavily over-censor completely lawful speech out of fear of massive government lawsuits. It risks sanitizing the internet and shutting down vital spaces for free expression and open communication.
This won't stop at signing up for websites, or chat apps. It will extend to artwork websites, multimedia hubs like Newgrounds, Music sites, even Reddit and 4chan will be subjected to this, and while you might think it's well deserved, you won't be saying that when they start asking users to verify their age on Mangadex or doujinshi sites, or on Itch io. Going to websites outside the US would be scrutinized if it doesn't follow the same criteria.
VPNs? Forget it, they'll try to outlaw those, too.
We all want children to be safe, but turning the entire internet into an Orwellian surveillance state where you have to show papers just to log on is a terrifying overreach. The bill has passed the House, which means the battleground is officially moving to the Senate. We cannot afford to sit this one out. This is a slippery slope and we must not give them this power over all of us.
Hey everybody, my personal email just got hacked, which is connected to things like my Discord but thankfully not the CG5 YouTube channel.
I just feel like I should say that now in case somebody receives messages or something from that email, idk. I'm just a little nervous.
The fact you all are echoing the same words as the UK "Think of the Children" to force this through says everything about your intentions
People are not blind and see what's going on within the UK and EU right now. This is just a way to invade privacy and introduce censorship
DO NOT GIVE DISCORD YOUR ID.
DO NOT GIVE DISCORD YOUR ID.
DO NOT GIVE DISCORD YOUR ID.
DO NOT GIVE DISCORD YOUR ID.
DO NOT GIVE DISCORD YOUR ID.
DO NOT GIVE DISCORD YOUR ID.
DO NOT GIVE DISCORD YOUR ID.
KOSA is a dangerous shrapnel bomb thats going to destroy the internet as we know it. We already seen what's happened in the United Kingdom with their Online Safety Act, so please stop mocking our intelligence with this blatant "Think of the Children" ploy. #StopKOSA#StopKIDSact