SleepyPie

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[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Jesus fucking Christ

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

How does this end? He’s already a felon and already has incredible power over the government

He’s made it clear there will be no more elections

I guess the primaries will make his life hard, but what does it take to remove him from power at this point? Does he even need voters anymore?

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never thought I would be finding common ground on a controversial topic with a guy named petrol_sniff_king but here we are

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

That’s just about how I feel.

Although I do wish we could take action on obviously terrible media without fearing slippery slopes to mandatory chastity cages.

I have to assume there are many non-zealot feminists who exist and are happy to see this gone. But all I see online is grumbling- it’s disturbing

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I mean isn’t this the gaming concept of scrub mentality? If I believe a specific moral act outweighs a minor dishonourable act, then shouldn’t I still do that act?

Say I know someone is being beaten in a locked room. It is an important government room, and only key holders elected by the community should enter.

I think it’s justifiable to kick down the door and stop the beating, because beating people up is against my morals so much more than ensuring proper procedure.

But when if someone does that, and everyone endlessly gripes about how “passerbys should not have authority to enter the special room” instead of “well at least I’m glad someone isn’t being beaten up anymore”, then I have to wonder if most people are fine with beatings?

Terrible analogy, non-equivalent etc, but do you see what I’m saying. Because I agree with you that card companies shouldn’t set the terms of what’s acceptable - I mentioned it in my first post.

Using the card company to stop the distribution of tape material is a cheap tactic, but if preventing harm is winning, then saying it’s never justified is scrub mentality, as if beating someone by spamming hadoken doesn’t count.

Patch the game later if it’s so unfair, this is the only way to get it removed right now. The deck is stacked against activists - usually the only effective options they have are disruptive and outside the system.

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Man kids should not be able to enter strip clubs, that’s insane to me.

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is the most convincing argument for me, as I know many governments have not been putting their citizen’s interests first.

Despite the risks, I know these sorts of anonymous confirmation systems already exist, and can be implemented effectively with transparency.

Most VPN services tout “zero logs”, and many back it up with audits. We can demand the same from our government.

I’m sure drivers licenses and social security numbers made people uncomfortable too when they were rolled out, but they certainly improved our lives.

A slippery slope is a logical fallacy - we can impose just enough oversight to be helpful AND curtail overreach. We can build and verify a good system.

Also, thank you for being kind.

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think at this point it’s clear to everyone that content moderation done by humans is not viable at scale. In this sense the web is unique, and would require a more dragnet solution, like ID verification. This is done in China already to much success to limit game time for youths.

A child would be turned away at a strip club, so perhaps this is a better analogy than a bar.

Still, if a parent wanted their children to browse an unfiltered Reddit they could provide their ID, and in this way we have a similar analogy.

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, we all have anecdotes of finding porn on the internet before it was reasonable. And everyone can eventually find ways around barriers. I also remember someone young googling terms and not realizing there was a setting blocking content. They had given up.

Barriers can meaningfully delay, giving young people more time to mature before they are exposed to this content. If every social media platform implemented this, it would have a significant impact. That’s why the porn industry lobbies so hard against these sorts of laws.

I think many underestimate how damaging porn use actually is, how toxic the industry is, and how much of the traffic is generated by the underaged.

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