In the union we were always taught to vote with your wallet. Every meeting during elections I heard it. Still, every other guy would be on about voting for Trump. Can’t fix stupid.

I just got rid of my Amazon finally too. For sure they’re getting a government contract for this shit.

Fuck, I just got rid if my Amazon and now they’re going to take over USPS huh? Fuck

It pisses me off that he can get charged si much for one potential crime. How can he get TWO counts of 2nd degree if it’s one murder?

For better or worse, content moderation was almost nonexistent. On those 100s of forums and websites you could see just about anything. The degenerate and shock culture thrived as much as all the other random stuff. People can still find terrible things out there but now there’s real effort to police and control the platforms. The big players don’t let the REALLY terrible stuff on their systems. Rotten.com is always what I reference. There used to be porn, TV shows, and movie, on YouTube. Copyright was a suggestion and free use was everywhere for homemade music videos and downloads. There was also less effort to protect children. There are still issues today but widely the internet is at least devided into more age appropriate spaces. Those spaces get invaded but it’s not how it was back then. In the 90s or early 00s you were assumed to be an adult if you were online. If you were smart you kept it that way. There was generally no avoidance if you were a minor like today.

That’s not to say the protections that exist today are perfect. It is more so just the fact that they exist at all, and at least for appearances, an effort is made.

Internet back then kind of had a flea market / bazaar vibe. It really was that old west feel.

There are SO many levels of Terms of Services that help keep the modern internet clean. We didn’t have that back then. Before monetization. These days, you have your ISPs, search engines, and domain hosts all working to keep things clean at a secondary level, before you even get to the website. Rotten.com can’t exist today as easily because it would have to find a host that would allow it’s content. Then it would have to be searchable, not end up a blacklisted domain on the forums, and also have protection from digital attacks, and THEN it’s content would have to be regulated to make sure it doesn’t break laws to get shut down. It could not exist today how it did back then.

Back then, rotten.com was as easy to find as asking jeeves, or yahoo to show you a dead body. The whole internet was that. No laws no shared mortality.

They could have made a toggle, instead they removed it. They’re signaling.

This, the company is basically using YOUR donation for THEIR tax breaks. Don’t help the company skimp on taxes.

Great, I’m about to get audited by the billionaire that probably doesn’t pay taxes. Lovely.

My understanding of AI art models is shakey at best but I think I remember that it basically uses the images to create a static (Litteral static like old school TV screen snow kinda) static model based on the image. Then it extrapolate based on 1000s of such static sudo images to create the original work. On a small scale I don’t think of it as theft. It’s not unlike a person using their past knowledge of image concepts to create a new image. Everyone hates AI though.

They don’t care. If there is no immediate and severe punishment for it then it doesn’t matter if we ‘know.’ In 10 years the only line will be the official one and we’ll just look like conspiracy theorists with half remembered facts. They dont think you’re stupid, they know they’ll get aways with it and they don’t think about you at all.

I agree with you. This administration does not. I mentioned replacement theory in my comment. Thats why imigration wouldn’t work. They dont see it as an option. They also are working on a national ban on abortion. Ultimately they see us all as cattle, but to get the population up? Women would be more so. Think legislation that makes divorce almost impossible. Tax breaks for ‘traditional’ families. (especially those that have multiple kids). MAJOR propaganda to push people to have children. Imagine that upcoming Facebook AI army all telling you how great being a parent is. Deeper discrimination in the workforce.

As for banning porn, it makes people more horny. More than that banning, porn also could ban many sexual education resources available online. Maybe the regulate birth control OR make it only accessible through insurance. Nasty work. Hundreds of dollars for your birth control that you need to regulate your periods because you don’t have insurance.

Rather than finding porn horny people go out and try to have sex. More sex means more kids. Add to that the removal of those educational resources I mentioned and now you have teens who don’t know any better having sex and getting pregnant. Funny how Trump is about to attack the department of education. What kids would have learned in school is lost to budget cuts and just over welmed and new biased teachers. Oh and rest assured their will be new teachers. Passionate volunteers I’m sure, to help teach your kids to be little monsters for God.

All this starts with heavier regulation on porn. It might not be a full ban, but it could be an effective ban. You wouldn’t be able to search it, many sights wouldn’t host it, and accessing it would require ID (and probably payment ti help support the infrastructure that would require).

I think banning porn is in part about getting birthrates back up. They’re scared of replacement. There’s the morality crap they’re tossing but the driving force is replacement theory and lost profit. They don’t want to be like Japan.