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Pancaked Brick, Fried by Koroks

Mar 15 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

I read the The Hill opinion article calling on the US and EU regulators to further clamp down on games and it's actually batshit insane: 🧵

In this thread I will go over everything they suggest and it's particularly alarming, especially when talking about human rights.

First off, who is Mariana Olaizola Rozenblat? She received an award from the Soros foundation to gain a JD from Yale Law School, and went on to work with the UN and Council of Europe around the world.

Currently, she's working for NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.

The article starts with the same worry that the GAO had - that gamers are communicating, networking, and building a community through video games.

Surely, we need to put a stop to all this.

It continues by claiming that extremists use "preexisting toxic gamer culture" to generate hatred and harassment.

Completely out the ass, as usual.

Now the concerning bit by the overwrought busybody - she thinks that rights to privacy and freedom of speech don't apply online in video games.

Again, another claim that video game communities cause harassment, intimidation, and actual killing.

Bat shit barmy.

The author claims that the Christchurch shooting "looking like a video game" gave rise to later shootings, and apparently Roblox caused the Buffalo shooting.

So what needs to be done about all this? We should do away with the notion of rights to privacy in game lobbies and servers, of course!

The author suggests that online games fall under the EU's Digital Services act - and that's a giant rabbit hole of busybody bullshit that I prefer not to go into now.

It's safe to say this would be a terrible thing.

The author ends with the usual "think of the children" spiel to justify the insane trampling of the rights to free speech and privacy in online games.

FINAL NOTE: While this person does not seem to hold a particularly high office within the EU or UN, it is still concerning because her words may carry weight.

Already there is a push from the US government to further invade games, this might push the EU and UN to do so as well.

If you've come this far, thanks for reading.

Here's an archive if you want to read this article for yourself: archive.vn/s3Men

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Representation, as a concept, creates bad writing: 🧵

There is a fundamental difference between designing a character that happens to be black and creating a black character in order to represent black people within your game.

Beware any writer that talks about representation.

When you create a character for representation’s sake, that character becomes a stand-in for an entire group of people. You have allowed external factors to inform your design choices rather than the story.

You have created an unnecessary meta-narrative on top of your narrative.

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Lies, more lies, and completely overlooking the reason people were upset in the first place. They interview SBI employees and of course, they paint themselves as innocent victims.

Kim Belair claims that SBI opponents want them to die, lmao.

The article goes on to claim that SBI opponents think that gaming culture was solely for "cis white men" and is being stolen from them.

This is a fabrication, complete nonsense.

According to this writer, the chief strategist for the White House was a Gamergater.

Pancaked Brick, Fried by Koroks

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I read the whole 45 page report from GAO about "gaming extremists": 🧵

Bear with me, because this thread will be long. I will highlight all the parts I found funny or concerning.

It's important to be aware that the government is full of stupid, intrusive clowns.

So what is GAO?

It is the Government Accountability Office, headed by the Comptroller General who is appointed by the President.

It supposedly helps the government work more efficiently and tracks how taxpayer dollars are spent.

Not doing a very good job of it I'd say, lmao.

To start with, GAO links video games with domestic extremism and claims they influenced domestic terror attacks.

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This has to be the worst article about the situation yet, and it calls for gaming companies to "take a stand" about Sweet Baby critics. Downright silly at best, actually mentally unwell at worst.

It starts with the crazy implication that Gamergate led up to Trump getting elected. Yeah, you've got your head screwed on right there mate.

Of course, they call Gamergate a harassment campaign, because why wouldn't they?

This bit is almost entirely a fabrication.

Nobody believes that SBI has "controlled every popular game for the last 5 years", you're just deranged and making shit up.

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