I completely agree with this. But I think it's already done. The men almost always have huge muscles and fight in what could be considered loincloths in quite a few games. Men go bare chested but because women have larger mammary glands they seem to trigger sensitive people so it's a horrible thing to show them. By fighting and prohibiting nudity in damn near any setting that is the entire reason why it is such a sensitive subject. Aborigines hang all their stuff out in the open from early age to death. Nobody seems to find each other in their group offensive. You can watch National Geographic and not consider it porn! Imagine that.
Because a girl or guy in a skimpy outfit vs not skimpy outfit while impaling another character with their sword is the same as a fist pounding someone's ass. Thanks for the education. Parental control is exactly that. PARENTS CONTROLLING THEIR KIDS. Not the media being controlled by SJW or any other knee jerking triggered idiot. This is simply the eradication of provocative material for the mistaken attempt at controlling sexual behavior or misbehavior as defined by a minority of religious zealots.
It's not up for Sony to remove or censor it. It's up to you to not buy the game for their kid if you find it offensive. Why don't we just go ahead and whitewash all material. Why is graphical material always the target? What is in pictures or moving pictures that people trigger so easily when written word is rarely (but still) banned. A ton of females read very graphical sexual novels but we're supposed to believe they are harmed or feel ashamed because some other girls decide to be depicted showing their skin/human shape. It's bullshit.
Animals go naked every day with their schlongs hanging out and hump each other in front of each other. We're the only species to cry about it when we even see a glimpse of it. Like we're some precious frigging fragile beings that can't handle our own breeding/hormonal stimulation from visuals.
Seriously. If we become a sexless society we will have less and less children. Add that with more pent up assholes like religious figures we'll see even more pedophilia. Blocking sexuality is actually hurting children because they will simply just not be born. Any ones that are born have future endless humanity self loathing/personality neutralizing laws to look forward to. Like giving up eating steak so you can live 5 years longer on a 70 year boring life. Thanks poundmetoo
It's fun to hate on these big corporations until you realize what is attacking them. The government. It's the worst and largest corporation out there! It's amazing what hate media spreads against their target. Look at your words. You want them to lose all rights of freedom of speech in the exchange for what? What the fuck did this "my data" collected from services you willingly use DO AGAINST YOU FOR US TO COLLECTIVELY LOSE ALL FREEDOMS OF SPEECH. That is what you are promoting and the rest of the people pointing a finger at Facebook. The government will be right there to help us relieve us of FB and others now. Next up will be services you actually like and use and then finally it will be your own speech.
That is what all of this "reporting" has been. To take away more and more business freedoms. They started the dialog a few months ago and you can see governments everywhere jumping on the bandwagon to censor and fine and attack Facebook more and more. It's becoming normal now to have a social media craze about the latest big baddy enemy and "we need to do something about." I'm wondering which came first the privacy laws or this social media campaign to throw every company under the bus that deals with data.
We will continue to get more and more "news" about FB and Google and co until Gov and social media had their fill of jabbing their pitchforks and they will move on to the next freedom removal.
Go start a company and you tell me you won't find every way to save and earn money. Show me your results of paying maximum cash to an endless burner of cash (gov). Show me how every year you can increase your employees wages and pay for their benefits while taxes creep up indefinitely and margins reduce because of competition. Show me all that money you would make to grow your business into other areas and employ more people who pay taxes and spread the wealth organically. Show me how you will you fund research. Show me how you pay for your fleet of vehicles gas usage or employee roll overs/retirements/pensions.
Tell me why companies should pay taxes on earnings and when they pay their employees and when employees still pay damn near 40% on what they earn and another 10% on what they give to restaurants/for food.
You're crazy to support the government.
I wish some of you, once you put down your pitchforks, would realize the government is basically taking 100% by taxing companies and what they pay employees and then turns around and taxes everything employees pay other people for their services. When is enough enough? People are crazy. I am glad Amazon can function and pay less. Heck I wouldn't be sad if they got paid by the government for creating jobs. Why are you all so backwards and hating companies? Is it because it's the in thing to do? They put the frigging food on the table and the table and the roof over the table. Stop hating them so much. Hate the government for writing a few laws yet taking all this damn money and still allowing our roads to crumble and us to kill broke people in countries with no money while spending trillions.
Thanks for the insult. I have an opinion on the subject. I do get it. I think what Apple is doing is fine. It is their market. If McDonalds listed Wendys on a dusty back of the store menu and let me pick from it I would be fine with that also. Sorry you feel different but next time learn how to discuss things civilly. You tell me if you're having problems finding other news apps or youtube in the app store. Tell me where the crime is.
They aren't there to serve the people. They are there to serve shareholders. The government is there to serve people. Both things aren't always achieved together. You aren't forced to buy Apple. You are forced to do what the government tells you you have to do. Does the fine fit the crime? Was there a crime performed by Apple at all? That is the question we are debating. Microsoft did antitrust because they forced companies to buy Windows or did not give them a discount. Google forced people to run the play store on their hardware or lose Google apps. Apple is running their own market on their own hardware promoting their own services! I say this not giving two shits about Apple because they are a walled garden to me.
It is Apple's app store. What the hell do you think it is? What the hell is wrong with Europe? News at 11: Mcdonalds favors its own burgers on its own menu!@#! Holly crap. I'm thinking Burger King does too. The horror and the shame. Maybe governments should be spending 100% of their time and money on actual crime prevention via poverty reduction and education before they start screwing around with FB, Apple, Google, etc. I just smell gov subsidy through fines all over these regulatory efforts. Also NIH syndrome/anti USA.
Haha, Industry sources reported that while many loyal Apple customers were largely unenthusiastic about the panicked man, they remained quite happy with the previous model, discontinued in 2011.
Too funny/harsh. I missed that article entirely when it was released. Way too spot on.
Is wrong about crypto currencies. They are here and they are growing and if you aren't in on them now you will be extremely sorry soon enough. I constantly see horrible posts about how pathetic they are here despite the fact many of them are opensource and are developing along very nicely. It's almost as if since it involves "money" that it's deemed terrible. Yes I know Bitcoin's PoW wastes energy.. pick one of the many many PoS or premined coins then. For example: XLM is an energy efficient premine.
It's an entire marketplace of developers, investors, opensource pros working together to deliver on financial freedom from banks and I think my/. folks should be happy for the developments. Go ahead and be critical all you want, that is warranted since some of the projects are just to take your money. But do yourself a favor and dig deeper into the scenes behind projects like Partcl, Tezos, Theta (Youtube co founder and Netflix developer are involved), and also some masternode coins that help give you great year on year returns. There is nothing wrong with having a second entity helping to pay your bills that just happens to also contain mostly free software and ideals.
Mark this the huh moment. Alexa does have one hit: IT IS THE HIT. The skills/apps just add to it. smh - that's kinda the point: voice is supposed to make it hide in the background and just be there all the time. And before you say it yes I'd rather an opensource competitor would be nearly 10% as successful and have a market share. I even gave money to one (and continue to.. mycroft).
It'd be funny if the rest of the world started using ProtonMail BECAUSE Russia blackholed themselves from it hah! Imagine seeing countries say it's the only safe mail service from Russia hacking and has their full recommendation.
This right here. But parent is correct also since EU is really reallllly tightening the noose. It's like they are combing through every damn freedom one by one and removing it explicitly. The other countries just look and watch and like wow ok you got that passed? wow, um our turn! This is why we need to keep voting for shitheads like orange man because we're forced to if we want stuff like 1:3 law reduction, lower taxes, shrinkage of departments. Unfortunately even he passes more laws against freedom. We're all screwed for now until uprisings like in France happen everywhere.
"Suggests they are going to stop their data collection and ad-targeting business model" Well no shit captain obvious. News at eleven: business has no plans to stop entire way of profiting from doing business. Wowzers. Top class media at work.
Vs nearly everyone else online at this point. I say screw the government and laws you people want to endlessly pass. If this company wants to make money by using data about people then go ahead. Just fine the shit out of them when they try to take action on that data in an illegal way. It's already illegal to break existing laws protecting people for damn near everything under the sun. I think this is a freedom issue for capitalism and the media is trying to demonize profit making. It's ok for gov to run census questions or SEC to require KYC, AML, everything about your financial past/present/future. FOIA requests are looked at kindly (as they should be). But damn if Facebook knows and profits from the fact you went to get Dunk'n Donuts today. You DO NOT HAVE TO USE FACEBOOK. You do have to use the government and abide by its overreaching terms or else. Facebook included. We are already protected from this big bad meany capital making machine. Now let me know if it comes and shoots your Uncle Harry. I'll support you then. In the meantime if it just knows you like Vanilla powder on your Latte then what the hell. Btw, what is this? Post #501231231 about evils of Facebook? Who's getting paid to hit FB and by whom? (I don't like Facebook but I use it. It's ugly and stupid af but family likes it).
Yeah someone mentioned to me previously they were running campaigns to mess with peoples minds. Then fine, get on them about that. Fine the crap out of them. But data collection? No. I am for opensource and open source data collection. I am for freedom of data to flow freely. Sorry. I don't think there should be laws against data collection and I don't think we should have to click Agree to use a fucking cookie on every website. GFYs whoever decided that should be a law.
Great reply. I get that point about the data but tell me if you think Facebook is the only one that can or is doing that? I believe that the government doesn't want the competition. I mean the entire point of data collecting is to be used to as you say to "manipulate people." Either by making a product or advertisement more effective or whatever Facebook had planned. But should the laws apply to general data collection which is a freedom we all have or should the laws be applied to the manipulation act? It's like guns. Should we outlaw guns or should we outlaw killing people with guns (which is already outlawed).
I guess that is what I was getting at without so much as saying it. We're all free to collect data. I don't even know how you expect to stop companies from doing it. But when it comes to use that data and "be evil" that is when you/government can do something and stop them. You conflate state with Facebook also. Facebook is a company. It doesn't pass laws (minus lobbies which I am against) and it doesn't put people in prison or take rights away from people. If Facebook were a state in the USA or country I'd be out there with a pitchfork first thing along with you guys.
What the hell is less laws hurting? What did Facebook do to you so far? Where is the damage? Why are so many people triggered on this situation. It's unbelievable. They are a free product that collects data people share with them willingly (and collects knowledge about other people that don't but that also has not shown to hurt anyone). I don't get the uproar. Why do you want to attack a resource everyone uses for free and willingly to connect to one another? Why does it bother you they profit and pay employees and server farms and release utilities for other businesses to make profit from the same thing?
Is this part of the whole socialism push? That is what I want to know really. What is triggering all of this hate for something that is fucking free. Of course a company that collects data is going to try to keep collection of data open and free for everyone. That involves lobbying and telling countries that they will pull out. I wish Google pulled out of EU. I wish Apple did too for their own purpose. Governments that are trying to control what people do are the enemy. Not the companies trying to keep avenues of profit open.
I mean wtf. Do you even realize you're falling to a socialist narrative?
That law is a prime example of slippery slope. The USA controls a lot of Internet resources and to make reaching laws gives other countries precedence to do exactly the same and now we just have clouds that don't pass territorial lines. Granted the spying was most likely happening anyway since nobody can trust their own country let alone each others countries anymore. At least though we didn't have a law saying we're going to f'n spy on you no matter where your data is.
I agree, well put. This is data about something the user did using the service provided. In exchange they get to use the service. I have no idea why people are all of a sudden in a uproar about this. It's been happening forever and it's almost required to make things better for the end user without charging them some flat rate and having them fill out questionnaires they usually just click skip anyway.
We have so much other crap to worry about right now. Everyone takes our data. Heck it's part of our freedom as a species to monitor other people / animals / objects and record things about them. What the fuck is going on that this is all of a sudden a huge concern? What's driving this? Apple? EU? There's got to be some kind of financial motivation behind wanting companies to STOP taking our data. Or is it socialism trying to stop them? I don't get it. What do we get in the end if say none of us could record what other people do using a service we provide? Where's the benefit? So some company doesn't know when to stock for pudding pops during a storm? I mean what is it we're trying to stop here that is so damn harmful.
This is coming from a person who fucking hates data being collected by Verizon with their horrible "deep" network cookies, hates answering agreements to share data, always clicks on free/non free software disagree to sharing crash reports. Yeah I don't like it but why the fuck does it matter? Really.
I hate this anti freedom approach and trying to pass even more laws to make more things illegal. It only hurts all of us in the end and way more than some company knowing I visited beeg.com 25 times today.
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I completely agree with this. But I think it's already done. The men almost always have huge muscles and fight in what could be considered loincloths in quite a few games. Men go bare chested but because women have larger mammary glands they seem to trigger sensitive people so it's a horrible thing to show them. By fighting and prohibiting nudity in damn near any setting that is the entire reason why it is such a sensitive subject. Aborigines hang all their stuff out in the open from early age to death. Nobody seems to find each other in their group offensive. You can watch National Geographic and not consider it porn! Imagine that.
Because a girl or guy in a skimpy outfit vs not skimpy outfit while impaling another character with their sword is the same as a fist pounding someone's ass. Thanks for the education. Parental control is exactly that. PARENTS CONTROLLING THEIR KIDS. Not the media being controlled by SJW or any other knee jerking triggered idiot. This is simply the eradication of provocative material for the mistaken attempt at controlling sexual behavior or misbehavior as defined by a minority of religious zealots. It's not up for Sony to remove or censor it. It's up to you to not buy the game for their kid if you find it offensive. Why don't we just go ahead and whitewash all material. Why is graphical material always the target? What is in pictures or moving pictures that people trigger so easily when written word is rarely (but still) banned. A ton of females read very graphical sexual novels but we're supposed to believe they are harmed or feel ashamed because some other girls decide to be depicted showing their skin/human shape. It's bullshit. Animals go naked every day with their schlongs hanging out and hump each other in front of each other. We're the only species to cry about it when we even see a glimpse of it. Like we're some precious frigging fragile beings that can't handle our own breeding/hormonal stimulation from visuals.
Seriously. If we become a sexless society we will have less and less children. Add that with more pent up assholes like religious figures we'll see even more pedophilia. Blocking sexuality is actually hurting children because they will simply just not be born. Any ones that are born have future endless humanity self loathing/personality neutralizing laws to look forward to. Like giving up eating steak so you can live 5 years longer on a 70 year boring life. Thanks poundmetoo
It's fun to hate on these big corporations until you realize what is attacking them. The government. It's the worst and largest corporation out there! It's amazing what hate media spreads against their target. Look at your words. You want them to lose all rights of freedom of speech in the exchange for what? What the fuck did this "my data" collected from services you willingly use DO AGAINST YOU FOR US TO COLLECTIVELY LOSE ALL FREEDOMS OF SPEECH. That is what you are promoting and the rest of the people pointing a finger at Facebook. The government will be right there to help us relieve us of FB and others now. Next up will be services you actually like and use and then finally it will be your own speech.
That is what all of this "reporting" has been. To take away more and more business freedoms. They started the dialog a few months ago and you can see governments everywhere jumping on the bandwagon to censor and fine and attack Facebook more and more. It's becoming normal now to have a social media craze about the latest big baddy enemy and "we need to do something about." I'm wondering which came first the privacy laws or this social media campaign to throw every company under the bus that deals with data.
We will continue to get more and more "news" about FB and Google and co until Gov and social media had their fill of jabbing their pitchforks and they will move on to the next freedom removal.
Go start a company and you tell me you won't find every way to save and earn money. Show me your results of paying maximum cash to an endless burner of cash (gov). Show me how every year you can increase your employees wages and pay for their benefits while taxes creep up indefinitely and margins reduce because of competition. Show me all that money you would make to grow your business into other areas and employ more people who pay taxes and spread the wealth organically. Show me how you will you fund research. Show me how you pay for your fleet of vehicles gas usage or employee roll overs/retirements/pensions. Tell me why companies should pay taxes on earnings and when they pay their employees and when employees still pay damn near 40% on what they earn and another 10% on what they give to restaurants/for food. You're crazy to support the government.
I wish some of you, once you put down your pitchforks, would realize the government is basically taking 100% by taxing companies and what they pay employees and then turns around and taxes everything employees pay other people for their services. When is enough enough? People are crazy. I am glad Amazon can function and pay less. Heck I wouldn't be sad if they got paid by the government for creating jobs. Why are you all so backwards and hating companies? Is it because it's the in thing to do? They put the frigging food on the table and the table and the roof over the table. Stop hating them so much. Hate the government for writing a few laws yet taking all this damn money and still allowing our roads to crumble and us to kill broke people in countries with no money while spending trillions.
Thanks for the insult. I have an opinion on the subject. I do get it. I think what Apple is doing is fine. It is their market. If McDonalds listed Wendys on a dusty back of the store menu and let me pick from it I would be fine with that also. Sorry you feel different but next time learn how to discuss things civilly. You tell me if you're having problems finding other news apps or youtube in the app store. Tell me where the crime is.
They aren't there to serve the people. They are there to serve shareholders. The government is there to serve people. Both things aren't always achieved together. You aren't forced to buy Apple. You are forced to do what the government tells you you have to do. Does the fine fit the crime? Was there a crime performed by Apple at all? That is the question we are debating. Microsoft did antitrust because they forced companies to buy Windows or did not give them a discount. Google forced people to run the play store on their hardware or lose Google apps. Apple is running their own market on their own hardware promoting their own services! I say this not giving two shits about Apple because they are a walled garden to me.
And I can criticize those laws using my own opinions. Glad you pointed this out.
It is Apple's app store. What the hell do you think it is? What the hell is wrong with Europe? News at 11: Mcdonalds favors its own burgers on its own menu!@#! Holly crap. I'm thinking Burger King does too. The horror and the shame. Maybe governments should be spending 100% of their time and money on actual crime prevention via poverty reduction and education before they start screwing around with FB, Apple, Google, etc. I just smell gov subsidy through fines all over these regulatory efforts. Also NIH syndrome/anti USA.
Haha, Industry sources reported that while many loyal Apple customers were largely unenthusiastic about the panicked man, they remained quite happy with the previous model, discontinued in 2011. Too funny/harsh. I missed that article entirely when it was released. Way too spot on.
I really got to believe that is sarcasm. We obviously need to eliminate minimum wage to increase competition and a larger fair market.
Is wrong about crypto currencies. They are here and they are growing and if you aren't in on them now you will be extremely sorry soon enough. I constantly see horrible posts about how pathetic they are here despite the fact many of them are opensource and are developing along very nicely. It's almost as if since it involves "money" that it's deemed terrible. Yes I know Bitcoin's PoW wastes energy.. pick one of the many many PoS or premined coins then. For example: XLM is an energy efficient premine.
It's an entire marketplace of developers, investors, opensource pros working together to deliver on financial freedom from banks and I think my /. folks should be happy for the developments. Go ahead and be critical all you want, that is warranted since some of the projects are just to take your money. But do yourself a favor and dig deeper into the scenes behind projects like Partcl, Tezos, Theta (Youtube co founder and Netflix developer are involved), and also some masternode coins that help give you great year on year returns. There is nothing wrong with having a second entity helping to pay your bills that just happens to also contain mostly free software and ideals.
Mark this the huh moment. Alexa does have one hit: IT IS THE HIT. The skills/apps just add to it. smh - that's kinda the point: voice is supposed to make it hide in the background and just be there all the time. And before you say it yes I'd rather an opensource competitor would be nearly 10% as successful and have a market share. I even gave money to one (and continue to.. mycroft).
It'd be funny if the rest of the world started using ProtonMail BECAUSE Russia blackholed themselves from it hah! Imagine seeing countries say it's the only safe mail service from Russia hacking and has their full recommendation.
We don't have to fight Russia. It's just going to destroy itself apparently.
This right here. But parent is correct also since EU is really reallllly tightening the noose. It's like they are combing through every damn freedom one by one and removing it explicitly. The other countries just look and watch and like wow ok you got that passed? wow, um our turn! This is why we need to keep voting for shitheads like orange man because we're forced to if we want stuff like 1:3 law reduction, lower taxes, shrinkage of departments. Unfortunately even he passes more laws against freedom. We're all screwed for now until uprisings like in France happen everywhere.
"Suggests they are going to stop their data collection and ad-targeting business model" Well no shit captain obvious. News at eleven: business has no plans to stop entire way of profiting from doing business. Wowzers. Top class media at work.
Vs nearly everyone else online at this point. I say screw the government and laws you people want to endlessly pass. If this company wants to make money by using data about people then go ahead. Just fine the shit out of them when they try to take action on that data in an illegal way. It's already illegal to break existing laws protecting people for damn near everything under the sun. I think this is a freedom issue for capitalism and the media is trying to demonize profit making. It's ok for gov to run census questions or SEC to require KYC, AML, everything about your financial past/present/future. FOIA requests are looked at kindly (as they should be). But damn if Facebook knows and profits from the fact you went to get Dunk'n Donuts today. You DO NOT HAVE TO USE FACEBOOK. You do have to use the government and abide by its overreaching terms or else. Facebook included. We are already protected from this big bad meany capital making machine. Now let me know if it comes and shoots your Uncle Harry. I'll support you then. In the meantime if it just knows you like Vanilla powder on your Latte then what the hell. Btw, what is this? Post #501231231 about evils of Facebook? Who's getting paid to hit FB and by whom? (I don't like Facebook but I use it. It's ugly and stupid af but family likes it). Yeah someone mentioned to me previously they were running campaigns to mess with peoples minds. Then fine, get on them about that. Fine the crap out of them. But data collection? No. I am for opensource and open source data collection. I am for freedom of data to flow freely. Sorry. I don't think there should be laws against data collection and I don't think we should have to click Agree to use a fucking cookie on every website. GFYs whoever decided that should be a law.
Great reply. I get that point about the data but tell me if you think Facebook is the only one that can or is doing that? I believe that the government doesn't want the competition. I mean the entire point of data collecting is to be used to as you say to "manipulate people." Either by making a product or advertisement more effective or whatever Facebook had planned. But should the laws apply to general data collection which is a freedom we all have or should the laws be applied to the manipulation act? It's like guns. Should we outlaw guns or should we outlaw killing people with guns (which is already outlawed). I guess that is what I was getting at without so much as saying it. We're all free to collect data. I don't even know how you expect to stop companies from doing it. But when it comes to use that data and "be evil" that is when you/government can do something and stop them. You conflate state with Facebook also. Facebook is a company. It doesn't pass laws (minus lobbies which I am against) and it doesn't put people in prison or take rights away from people. If Facebook were a state in the USA or country I'd be out there with a pitchfork first thing along with you guys.
What the hell is less laws hurting? What did Facebook do to you so far? Where is the damage? Why are so many people triggered on this situation. It's unbelievable. They are a free product that collects data people share with them willingly (and collects knowledge about other people that don't but that also has not shown to hurt anyone). I don't get the uproar. Why do you want to attack a resource everyone uses for free and willingly to connect to one another? Why does it bother you they profit and pay employees and server farms and release utilities for other businesses to make profit from the same thing? Is this part of the whole socialism push? That is what I want to know really. What is triggering all of this hate for something that is fucking free. Of course a company that collects data is going to try to keep collection of data open and free for everyone. That involves lobbying and telling countries that they will pull out. I wish Google pulled out of EU. I wish Apple did too for their own purpose. Governments that are trying to control what people do are the enemy. Not the companies trying to keep avenues of profit open. I mean wtf. Do you even realize you're falling to a socialist narrative?
That law is a prime example of slippery slope. The USA controls a lot of Internet resources and to make reaching laws gives other countries precedence to do exactly the same and now we just have clouds that don't pass territorial lines. Granted the spying was most likely happening anyway since nobody can trust their own country let alone each others countries anymore. At least though we didn't have a law saying we're going to f'n spy on you no matter where your data is.
I agree, well put. This is data about something the user did using the service provided. In exchange they get to use the service. I have no idea why people are all of a sudden in a uproar about this. It's been happening forever and it's almost required to make things better for the end user without charging them some flat rate and having them fill out questionnaires they usually just click skip anyway.
We have so much other crap to worry about right now. Everyone takes our data. Heck it's part of our freedom as a species to monitor other people / animals / objects and record things about them. What the fuck is going on that this is all of a sudden a huge concern? What's driving this? Apple? EU? There's got to be some kind of financial motivation behind wanting companies to STOP taking our data. Or is it socialism trying to stop them? I don't get it. What do we get in the end if say none of us could record what other people do using a service we provide? Where's the benefit? So some company doesn't know when to stock for pudding pops during a storm? I mean what is it we're trying to stop here that is so damn harmful. This is coming from a person who fucking hates data being collected by Verizon with their horrible "deep" network cookies, hates answering agreements to share data, always clicks on free/non free software disagree to sharing crash reports. Yeah I don't like it but why the fuck does it matter? Really. I hate this anti freedom approach and trying to pass even more laws to make more things illegal. It only hurts all of us in the end and way more than some company knowing I visited beeg.com 25 times today.