US capital building gets breached. Is this the end?

[cd288]

Originally Posted by FatherSioux [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

“Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.“

That doesn’t break twitters ToS but Trumps tweets warrant a complete removal. Can you square those for me? It screams of wild bias.

Not saying I agree with that Tweet of course but from a legal liability perspective it's a completely different world.

To use Twitter as an example, they are a US-based social media firm. It's a lot easier to get jurisdiction over them in a lawsuit for things that happen in the United States than it is internationally. Now, someone from Israel could come sue them in the US, but that would be extremely expensive for them so they'd probably try to sue in Israel, which Twitter would then dispute from a jurisdictional perspective and maybe get it tossed out...maybe there are other international laws that makes Twitter less liable...etc. etc. Point being that international liability is way more unclear than US liability for Twitter would be. It's way more risky on the US side since it would be way easier to sue them here than it would be for people from elsewhere.

It's also a commercial decision. Think about it. Your platform is literally being used to encourage people to overthrow the democratically elected government of Joe Biden and install a candidate who lost an election. Initially, the social media platforms didn't shut that down because no one believed people would actually go that far. Once they realized that these lunatics are serious, they had to remove the users because people are not going to do business with a company that allows people to create anti-Democratic insurrection to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States. That is treason. The social media platforms want nothing to do with the potential legal liability or commercial impact of supporting treason in the United States.

Outside of Twitter, some of these platforms like Facebook were literally being used to organize armed militias. Those platforms wouldn't allow, for example, ISIS to create a group to organize their terror attacks. These people who are proposing armed violence are literally domestic terrorists and they are being appropriately treated as such.

[Jibartik]

is legacy media code for Dracula?

[Jibartik]

Listening to this isreal rhetoric got me thinking:

When you and the boys get together for an insurrection, but start talking about what policies you're for and against.

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[Mblake81]

My big beef with all of this isn't Trump, Liberals, Pelosi.. gay men or women. Heck, it isn't even the transvesstites.

Have you noticed that the Internet went from "Oh cool, people from all over the world. I can wait to ask an Australian if he knows Crocodile Dundee!"

to

Whatever the hell this stuff is.

I blame Steve Jobs.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My big beef with all of this isn't Trump, Liberals, Pelosi.. gay men or women. Heck, it isn't even the transvesstites.

Have you noticed that the Internet went from "Oh cool, people from all over the world. I can wait to ask an Australian if he knows Crocodile Dundee!"

to

Whatever the hell this stuff is.

I blame Steve Jobs.

Social media is likely the single worst thing that was ever introduced to the internet. I'm surprised people are even mentioning Twitter here when Facebook pretty aggressively helped fuel shit.

This dumbass forum is about the closest interaction I have with anything resembling social media, I enjoy discussing things with people that vehemently disagree with me. Mostly though I like the dichotomy of how heated threads like this are, but then I go one thread down and its like "AWW YEAH WHO LIKES SOME FUCKIN STEAK?!" and then I'm talking about cooking steaks with those same people.

[FatherSioux]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This dumbass forum is about the closest interaction I have with anything resembling social media, I enjoy discussing things with people that vehemently disagree with me. Mostly though I like the dichotomy of how heated threads like this are, but then I go one thread down and its like "AWW YEAH WHO LIKES SOME FUCKIN STEAK?!" and then I'm talking about cooking steaks with those same people.

Excellent point. Speaking of that, I bought some Ribeye in Colorado and it was like 1/4 inches thick...super thin and it was weird. Cooked up wonderfully but it was strange

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by FatherSioux [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Excellent point. Speaking of that, I bought some Ribeye in Colorado and it was like 1/4 inches thick...super thin and it was weird. Cooked up wonderfully but it was strange

I overcook those constantly. But, I'd bet that shit would be dope for like...beef and broccoli or something. Slice it up thin. I recently did that with "round" cut and fuuuuuuck that that sucked. That shit is chewy as fuck. But ribeye would be great. Ribeyes are fuckin awesome. I'm not even huge on filet mignon, the cap on the ribeye is just too fucking good.

My store has some weird boner for either having cuts like that, or cuts that are like 2 inches thick that would feed a family, its irritating.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Social media is likely the single worst thing that was ever introduced to the internet.

I agree, the good things it has brought are outweighed by the bad things.

You could argue that EQ and message boards (like this) were the early form of social media.

http://bhagpuss.blogspot.com/2019/04...everquest.html

One of the reasons frequently cited for the decline of the genre is the contemperaneous rise of social media. It's become a truism to assert that turn-of-the-century MMORPGs were the social media of their day. For many hundreds of thousands - millions - of people, playing an online game provided their first and for a while their only experience of talking in real time to friends and strangers around the world.

But the Internet was still closed off, typically only one way to access it. That involved money, time and interest and that is beyond most consumers. Self filtering.
Less rules and post whatever you want because "relax, it's the internet."

Cellphones made it real, translates into the real world. Did any of you old school guys read about something crazy on the Internet then go do it, later try to use an excuse like "but I seen it on the Internet.."

How much do we have to walk on eggshells now, will promoting a raid and beating an enemy team be seen as hateful or whatever-the-hell the new kids are on these days.

This doesn't typically make good music or games. What is counter-culture today and do we still need one?

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree, the good things it has brought are outweighed by the bad things.

You could argue that EQ and message boards (like this) were the early form of social media.

http://bhagpuss.blogspot.com/2019/04...everquest.html



But the Internet was still closed off, typically only one way to access it. That involved money, time and interest and that is beyond most consumers. Self filtering.
Less rules and post whatever you want because "relax, it's the internet."

Cellphones made it real, translates into the real world. Did any of you old school guys read about something crazy on the Internet then go do it, later try to use an excuse like "but I seen it on the Internet.."

How much do we have to walk on eggshells now, will promoting a raid and beating an enemy team be seen as hateful or whatever-the-hell the new kids are on these days.

This doesn't typically make good music or games. What is counter-culture today and do we still need one?

Yep. Low IQ dullards with envious hearts and a penchant for connivery and literalism ruin everything.

Precisely why the p99 raid scene has to be arbitrated to the letter of the law, because too **** to rule themselves with the spirit of the law.

This itself has incredibly striking parallels to both the faith, and the current sociopolitical environment around the world.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree, the good things it has brought are outweighed by the bad things.

You could argue that EQ and message boards (like this) were the early form of social media.

I think they were, but I think the difference was that you sort of had to find those forums? With facebook and instagram you're just getting the hot beef injection of all the shit all day every day from everywhere. I think they made it too easy to encapsulate yourself in your own echo chamber, or potentially worse, get sucked into someone else's echo chamber and become a part of it.

I don't think anti-vaxx, crystal hugging, herb huffing, self-help, pseudo-science mom groups would exist or have ever acquired the following they did without the help of shit like facebook. I don't doubt forums for those sorts of people existed beforehand, but the blast radius of who knew about them was drastically smaller, and instead of being able to inundate themselves constantly all day, they'd eventually have to talk to normal fucking people who'd be like "No that's bullshit".