hell, that whole thing with the bomber who was on gab?

they found him by backtracking gab

that information was useful

I can understand the sentiment behind desires to censor stuff, but that's unamerican. IMHO, giving INDIVIDUALs control over what they view is an infinitely better option than allowing a corporate autocracy to do it.

I never trust faceless organizations, and it's pretty plain that they're in a cartel at this point.

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But these companies have a fiduciary duty to thier shareholders to care about PR. The last thing they can afford based on that duty is to be associated with someone who carries out a terror attack, especially if any element of it including thier diatribes were performed using thier venue.

The shareholders xd

Unless you want a government sponsored venue, any private mass venue will have this challenge.

Yeah, like the people who collectively own the company. :P

People who want to make a return on thier investment.

Capitalists

Which is not a bad word. I'm.a capitalist and I have no shame about it. Properly regulated, capitalism is the best market dynamic humanity has yet developed.

To paraphrase my hero, Winston Churchill, "capitalism is the worst market mechanic, aside from everything else that has been concieved or tried."

I am a capitalist too, who isn't here. Doesn't mean you need to defend all aspects of it. Shareholders are kind of a parasite imo.

Huh? They're the owners of a public company.

They are a way for a company to gain capital.

By selling itself

But in large corporations it is them who ruin my video games

GAYMERS

RISE UP

WOW WAS USED TO BE GREAT

NOW LOOK AT BFA

IT IS A SLOT MACHINE GAME

It's not free money. Shareholder investment means each share is a stake in the company. Obviously there are differences in shares, but they still own it.

ONLY WORKING BASED ON PLAYTIME

NO LONGER FUN

IT'S ONLY AIM TO MAKE YOU LOG IN FOR LONGER

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY

Companies that cannot thread the market successfully will fail

GAYMERS

RISE UP

That's the way a market works

Ya, and now my game is dead

But as I've said, I'm not sure there is a way to succeed nowadays. Or at least a way to thrive.

The market will become more focesed and balkanized. Fewer mass marketed games. And I don't think that's a bad thing.

Games will be developed that can survive on a few hundred thousand players rather than vying for the illusary mass market.

Not to say some games won't succeed in the mass market. Something mostly apolitical like Angry Birds or other arcade style games where only someone else like PETA could get their knickers in a bunch over it.

Same with venues. We'll see people continue to segregate themselves into their own venues. Which will further poison the political and social dynamic as people literally live in parallel worlds with no connection or shared reality.

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Bridge builders like me will become further demoralized as we see the train wrecks on both sides.