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Since any text could have variety of interpretations any text could 'offend' someone. And since no body should be entitled to threaten a free speech here is th
by lovelyviking 6y ago
Since any text could have variety of interpretations any text could 'offend' someone.
And since no body should be entitled to threaten a free speech here is the full text:
>Encrypting save games
>Why?
>Because the world today is not the world of yesterday. A capitalist oligarchy runs the world and forces us to consume in order to keep the gears of this rotten society on track. As such, the biggest market for video game consumption today is the mobile one. It is a market of poor souls forced to compulsively consume digital content in order to forget the misery of their everyday life, commute, or just any other brief free moment they have that they are not using to produce goods or services for the ruling class. These individuals need to keep focusing on their video games (because not doing so will fill them with tremendous existential angst), so they go as far as spending money on them to extend their experience, and their preferred way of doing so is through in-app purchases and virtual currency.
>But what if someone were to find a way to edit the saved games and assign the items and currency without effort? That would be terrible, because it would help players consume the content much faster, and therefore run out of it sooner than expected. If that happens, they will have nothing that prevents them from thinking, and the tremendous agony of realizing their own irrelevance would again take over their life.
>No, we definitely do not want that to happen, so let's see how to encrypt savegames and protect the world order.
I see no big issues with this text but I see a huge problem with attacking such text.
I think someone who have managed to be offended by this innocent text should be near the border of sickness. Or not, it doesn't matter.
What matter is for them to recall that free speech is meant to 'offend' some of us for the benefit of having healthy and honest discussion and avoid much bigger problems that would not just 'offend' but potentially would kill.
- piokoch 6y agoIt is 2021, you say or write something and six months later it turns out that there is some "oppressed" minority that is hurt by your words, people are insulting you on Facebook and Twitter, your friends are removing you from their friends list, your employer is firing you, Amazon AWS refuses hosting, Google marks your website as dangerous, Youtube demonetize your videos, then it (shadow)bans them. And you are done. Everything that Bradbury, Orwell, Zajdel wrote becomes reality, Brooker's dystopian "Black Mirror" is no longer dystopia. So better remain silent and don't stick out...
- lovelyviking 6y agoIf that is the case then we should stick out more because later it will be even harder and hiding would not work anyway. Jordan Peterson: Free Speech & the Right to Offend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pERGAaKHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pERGAaKHw Rowan Atkinson on free speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU