Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (oversight.house.gov)
from mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 20:10
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mesamunefire@piefed.social on 17 Sep 20:11 next collapse

As long as its on the internet, there will be strange people saying strange things.

Also good more censorship! /s

acosmichippo@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 20:25 collapse

never mind people in the internet, maybe let’s start with the people in congress and on television. oh and, you know, the fucking president.

Asafum@feddit.nl on 17 Sep 20:34 next collapse

I hope they all say the same thing:

Shit rolls down hill. You’re the hill DC. Fox news and the media are the hill. We’re the ditch where the people congregate in and drown in your shit.

db2@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 20:44 collapse

Fart Huffman will be too busy boot licking to do that.

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 20:42 next collapse

Shouldn’t they include Truth social on there?

acosmichippo@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 20:46 next collapse

how could you be radicalized with the truth?

paraphrand@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 22:11 next collapse

There is no Radical honesty on Truth social.

willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Sep 03:19 collapse

Truth and “Truth social” are different things.

Truth is good.

Truth social is an orwellian social network that is at war with the truth.

n0respect@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 22:33 collapse

Oracle TikTok isn’t on there either.

Oh, that’s because they already have a government overseer. And owned by a Party loyalist.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Sep 20:55 next collapse

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DMCA Section 230

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 21:30 collapse

Okay, but what if we just repeal or ignore that rule in order to conduct a pogrom of WrongThinkers?

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Sep 21:32 next collapse

Like everything else, the same laws and rules they have hidden behind to justify and protect their absolute dogshit behavior will be the first things the regime will get rid of for protecting anyone other than their in-group.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

paraphrand@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 22:13 collapse

It shuts down Truth social and all social networks. YouTube stops allowing uploads, the fediverse closes up shop, cats and dogs living together.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 22:14 next collapse

Anything bad?

paraphrand@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 22:27 collapse

Well, it’ll be a difficult transition. But in the long run, maybe not?

As long as the Fourth Estate gets their shit together.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 00:32 collapse

I would not hold my breath

grue@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 23:04 collapse

It doesn’t shut the Fediverse; it just means each user needs to run their own instance so that the “user” doing the speech and the “publisher” liable for it are one in the same.

paraphrand@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 23:08 collapse

Ah, good point. I guess things would rapidly re-form in the favor of the fediverse if this law was overturned…

Sounds like a monkey paw situation to me!

dinckelman@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 21:07 next collapse

Besides stating the obvious, in that this government is corrupt, and that the killer was a right-wing nut, there is one thing a ton of these people don’t understand.

Most people aren’t celebrating the killing of Kirk. Most people are celebrating that his incredibly provocative narrative, that violently rallied the fascists together, won’t be spread at the source anymore

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 21:31 next collapse

Most people aren’t celebrating the killing of Kirk

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I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure

Assassassin@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 21:41 next collapse

Not supporting the killing of Kirk, supporting the death of Kirk. It’s a small but important difference.

CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one on 17 Sep 23:20 next collapse

Most people are simply mentioning how much of a piece of shit he was, and happy that he won’t be spewing his nonsense anymore

unphazed@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 02:31 collapse

Do I want people to die? Nope. Live forever, or of old age or whatever. Do I want people to stop belittling others and spreading hatred and lies and for them to cease it forever? Yes. Do I wish that Kirk saw the light or the end of a gravy train and apologized publicly and disavowed all his bs? I wanted this more than anything. I would also love to see the other propagandists and conspiracists maybe think hard about consequences of their actions and cease their lies, but I live in the real world, unlike them.

xc2215x@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 21:12 next collapse

Why not X ?

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 17 Sep 21:21 collapse

That's the good kind of radicalisation... /s

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 18 Sep 00:08 collapse

Left wing radicalisation is bad.

Far right radicalisation is good.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 17 Sep 21:20 next collapse

Absolutely zero of them should go to this.

restingOface@quokk.au on 17 Sep 21:56 collapse

What are the repercussions of simply ignoring an "invitation" such as this?

[deleted] on 17 Sep 22:03 collapse

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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 21:41 next collapse

Yeah, it’s the online forums and gaming communities that radicalized me and not the legion of drooling idiots destroying my country at the direction (or at least to the delight) of foreign adversaries. Good job, detective.

willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Sep 03:16 collapse

Elon sieg heilling twice and then signal boosting facists and illegally cutting democratically approved and institutionally valid spending, that hasn’t radicalized anyone.

Totally normal behavior.

It’s gotta be the video games and the dark web. What’s dark web? It is any web space I don’t know about. Duh.

I am not a fan of a few billionaires locking up every freedom we used to have so they can keep trucking toward the world’s first trillionaire.

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 21:56 next collapse

I’m assuming it’s gonna amount to “your users aren’t radicalized enough”

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 17 Sep 21:59 next collapse

Right wing extremism and radicalization?

Nooo problem

A right wing radicalizer gets shot?

We need to investigate radicalization of the online left!

willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Sep 03:28 collapse

Right wing influencers and pundits are calling for war and killings as we speak.

We’ll see how they will be investigated.

EndOfLine@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 22:05 next collapse

No Twitter / X or Truth Social? Is this actually a “why aren’t you doing more to radicalize your online forum users towards our ideology” ?

bluGill@fedia.io on 17 Sep 22:19 next collapse

They need to invite lemmy somehow too. I know no ceo but still plenty of radicals. Not just on .ml though that is the worst.

CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one on 17 Sep 23:18 next collapse

Imagine his surprise when all of these CEO’s voice their concerns about the fascist terrorist rhetoric.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 18 Sep 00:00 collapse

I doubt these CEOs will talk about it. Gotta stay on the good side of the Trumpy Regime.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Sep 00:31 next collapse

Steve Huffman already wants to be Mini Elon Musk.

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 01:08 collapse

And he and his “landed gentry” have been working round the clock to silence negative opinions about shitty people like Musk and Kirk.

chillpanzee@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 00:36 collapse

If they follow the script, they’ll blame Antifa, Obama, and trans people.

the_trash_man@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 04:56 collapse

Don’t worry about 4chan and other anonymous imageboards