• @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    23 days ago

    They are going after the billionaire who won’t play along with Trump.

    And they are being on purpose hypocritical and smarmy. Even that senator’s wikipedia page labels him as a businessman before being a senator. Priorities priorities

    • Night Monkey
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      223 days ago

      What? 😆 This has all the silly markings of the typical ADL talking points.

  • @danc4498@lemmy.world
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    1224 days ago

    This is an issue 47 US senators care deeply about. 53 of them think both sides need to do better, so instead of action we’ll just wait and see.

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    623 days ago

    Steam being privately owned and somehow independent is probably a big factor in that I guess.

  • @mlg@lemmy.world
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    1923 days ago

    Is this even a real problem on steam or something some random dude wrote to his senator about?

    My biggest issue was valve being slow to vac ban people bragging about cheating, which was almost exlcusive to TF2.

    Seen way worse on reddit than steam for “hate” content.

  • TheTechnician27
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    2224 days ago

    It’s good to see a politician who actually stays informed about these kinds of issues.

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      24 days ago

      A US senator can absolutely, unambiguously write to a private corporation asking them to more strictly moderate their platform. You’re just parroting “muh freeze peach” having zero idea where that starts and ends.

      I highly recommend informing yourself where this boundary is; even if you particularly disagree with this senator, citing the First Amendment is the weakest possible argument here except among people who also don’t understand where the line is.

            • @vinnymac@lemmy.world
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              1223 days ago

              If you are concerned by fascism, I recommend calling your representatives and even writing letters to them.

              In the case above, a sensible well written letter sent by an individual that was put in power to defend the interests of the American people is not fascism.

              It’s important to understand what Fascism looks like. Such as every billionaire bending the knee when a politician gains power, or what we see with Musk in an invented cabinet position. The merger of government and corporate powers which will directly hurt the interests of the people in a state.

            • sj_zero
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              A lot of fascists don’t realize they’re fascist.

              Mussolini once said “Fascism can be better described as corporatism, the combination of state and corporate power”. Under fascism, everything and everyone is socialized under the state, and everything becomes a tool of the state. For this reason, some historians call fascism “State Socialism”, contrasting Hitler’s “Racial Socialism” or Marxism’s “Class Socialism”, each of which use a totalizing state to socialize everyone into one group. So a government official putting pressure on a corporation to silence speech the state doesn’t like is openly fascist, and many people think they want that sort of fascism.

              In my book The Graysonian Ethic, I talk about why people think they want fascism(though they might call their fascism something different because they want to pretend they’re not calling for fascism) but they actually don’t:

              “The truth is, everybody thinks that they want fascism because they imagine that fascism will do exactly what they want and nothing more. They look at all the groups of people that they do not like and they imagine that the fascists will go and clamp down on those people and then just stop. Reality is not so kind. Yes, the evil empire did go out and do reprehensible things to the group that they identified as causing the problem. Of course, you do not need to make any kind of choices to whether someone of that particular group caused any problems to realize that most people within any given group are not responsible for the actions of the few. Within any given group there are lots of people who are just trying to sit back and live their lives without hurting anyone. Despite that, this great evil empire went out and exterminated a people. They did not stop there though. To them, even amongst the people that they claimed to protect and try to save there were two sorts of people: those who supported the regime and those who did not. For many of those who supported the regime, they were given the means to gain tremendous wealth and power in a very short period of time. For those who did not, they had their livelihood stripped away, they were shunned, in some cases they joined the groups who faced extermination.”

        • TheTechnician27
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          I don’t think you can block yourself. Maybe ask the Lemmy devs to implement it? Seriously, all I’m asking you to do is read to understand where your rights as an American citizen start and end; it’s for your own good.