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TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure
mvdwege writes "The popular wiki TV Tropes, a site dedicated to the discussion of various tropes, clichés and other common devices in fiction has suddenly decided to put various of its pages behind a 'possibly family-unsafe' content warning, apparently due to pressure by Google withdrawing its ads. What puzzles me most is the content that is put behind this warning. TV Tropes features no explicit sexual content, and no explicit violence. It does of course discuss these things, as is its remit, but without actual explicit depictions. In fact, something as relatively innocuous as children being raised by two females, whatever the reason are put behind the content warning, even if the page itself doesn't take a stand on the issue, merely satisfying itself by describing the occurence of this in fiction."
Republican family values!
Hey, lets inflict forced proposition-8 divorces on 1000s of californian families because an imaginary diety says so, even if the constitution says govt and religion are forbidden from combining.
Uh, couple != families. Families implies children.
Were you sick from school when they explained reproduction?
Sorry, but where in your constitution does it say that everyone has a right to marriage and that the government has a right to redefine marriage? Marriage was not instituted by the government because it preceded any form of government. Governments passed laws to recognize and regulate marriage based on societies values which is not the same thing as creating marriage. Marriage requires a license and so it is not a right. When was the last time you had to get a license for free speech or any other fundamental right? Driving a car is not a right. It requires a license with certain terms and conditions.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Dude, chill out. I was going to rate Insightful, until I hit the third paragraph. I'm not judging on your point, but seriously, that hostility was uncalled for.
So you're upset by a company censoring itself or changing content because they were upset that a sponsor/advertiser might not like content they're showing...?
There's nothing insightful about your post if you look at the actual issue. Google is one advertiser out of many potential others. A big one, perhaps the biggest, to be sure, but so what? TVTropes has no right in any sense of the word to operate the way it does, now, with an advertiser that may be cautious about what content they're connected to. Unless you're upset about when many of Glenn Beck's sponsors began dropping advertising during his show. Does that upset you?
The fact that you are upset about the trucks with cameras shows how utterly paranoid and alarmist you are. Par for the course for PopeRatzo, nothing more to see here...
Because it's discrimination you fucking retard.
Married people get special treatment. Gay people say "me too!" .. and you are all like.. "yeah.. gay people deserve special treatment too!"
..and then you say that its discrimination if gay people dont also get that special treatment? .. and have the balls to do so rudely?
Go fuck yourself. I'm single and don't want yet another fucking group of people getting special treatment. THAT is fucking discrimination against me, you hypocrite douche-bag.
"His name was James Damore."
Its fairly obvious to me that people that want to dictate the terms of special treatment, be they calling it 'marriage' or 'civil unions', are the real discriminators.
..and why cant I assign those same rights that gays are fighting for to my sister, brother, parent, or child? Isnt that fucking discrimination?
Remember that in at least one state in our Union of States, it is legal to be married to more than one person at a time. Shouldn't that go for everyone in every state? Isnt that fucking discrimination?
And why do these special rights have to be reciprocal? Can't I assign the rights to (A) while that person assigns them to (B) and (B) assigns them to (C)?
The whole fucking thing that we call marriage is discrimination, and calling it something else while letting homosexuals into it DOESNT FUCKING CHANGE A THING.
"His name was James Damore."