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> weirdos mad about video game journalism. Funny how being interested in accountability, transparency and good journalism makes you "a weirdo" worth ignoring.

> weirdos mad about video game journalism. Funny how being interested in accountability, transparency and good journalism makes you "a weirdo" worth ignoring. Oh well, if you're moderately effective about highlighting a problem you'll always get attacked with labels. Funny too how he lumps them and other groups with "Nazis". Feels like yet another person who is suddenly whining because their authoritarian websites are no longer controlled by their authoritarian ideologues they agreed with. The Elon musk takeover has been very positive, if anything to display how hypocritical some of the authortiarians from any side are. It's all about censoring ideas they don't like because "they're righteous (TM)". Having destroyed alternatives like Parler every time they got popular, makes it feel that no competition will be allowed and theres a sudden desperate turn to descentralization, which is awesome, but it will come with the same ridículous shouts of censorship when any idea authoritarians don't like, gets mainstream notoriety. Suddenly the interest of society will be to censor that descentralized network. The excuse will be one of the typical scares: terrorism, harm, crime, etc Interesting times but not an interesting article. Just the typical "how do we go back to what I liked and agreed with me"

andrepd 4y ago
>The Elon musk takeover has been very positive Of course it has. Twitter stopped censoring neonazis and harassment and started censoring things Musk doesn't like. >authortiarians from any side. It's all about censoring ideas they don't like How ironic
- isaacremuant 4y ago
  He's doing very similar things than what other authortiarians were. Censoring what he doesn't like or doesn't follow his ideology. Problem is, the people who agree with doing this before are mad because now it's against them. It's a positive. As for the NNs labels. Well, it's the typical scaremongering argument that holds no water when you realize that, again, people will be inconsistent about who they apply X labels too and why they should be censored. As for your ironic comment, it's really not. You can't call out hypocrisy on me because my stance has not changed. I'll give you the opportunity to speak and them. I'll call out your censorship and their censorship. I would've hoped the guy in the article and many who foam at the mouth about EM and NN realized that "censorship was bad all along, we shouldn't have done it because it can turn against us" but alas, it wasn't meant to be.
astrange 4y ago
> Funny how being interested in accountability, transparency and good journalism makes you "a weirdo" worth ignoring. Yes, that’s correct, because video game journalism literally doesn’t and can’t ever matter, so it doesn’t matter if it’s bad or not. Just like it doesn’t matter that tech gadget journalism or boat owner journalism is bad.
- slater- 4y ago
  i love playing video games, and also you're completely right.
- isaacremuant 4y ago
  "doesn't matter" to you. Who are you to judge what does and doesn't? You can say the same thing about pretty much anything and yet, calling corruption and conflicts of interest in any business or organization is absolutely relevant for anyone who interacts with it. There's also the fact that journalists switch topics and industries and the behaviours are not limited to one industry. The problems I mentioned and access journalism are absolutely prevalent in politics journalism, which I doubt you'd say "doesn't matter" So your argument is just a poor attempt to dismiss a subject in a disingenuous way. The dismissive and rude label applied is just the cherry on top.

andrepd 4y ago

>The Elon musk takeover has been very positive Of course it has. Twitter stopped censoring neonazis and harassment and started censoring things Musk doesn't like. >authortiarians from any side. It's all about censoring ideas they don't like How ironic

isaacremuant 4y ago
He's doing very similar things than what other authortiarians were. Censoring what he doesn't like or doesn't follow his ideology. Problem is, the people who agree with doing this before are mad because now it's against them. It's a positive. As for the NNs labels. Well, it's the typical scaremongering argument that holds no water when you realize that, again, people will be inconsistent about who they apply X labels too and why they should be censored. As for your ironic comment, it's really not. You can't call out hypocrisy on me because my stance has not changed. I'll give you the opportunity to speak and them. I'll call out your censorship and their censorship. I would've hoped the guy in the article and many who foam at the mouth about EM and NN realized that "censorship was bad all along, we shouldn't have done it because it can turn against us" but alas, it wasn't meant to be.

astrange 4y ago

> Funny how being interested in accountability, transparency and good journalism makes you "a weirdo" worth ignoring. Yes, that’s correct, because video game journalism literally doesn’t and can’t ever matter, so it doesn’t matter if it’s bad or not. Just like it doesn’t matter that tech gadget journalism or boat owner journalism is bad.

slater- 4y ago
i love playing video games, and also you're completely right.
isaacremuant 4y ago
"doesn't matter" to you. Who are you to judge what does and doesn't? You can say the same thing about pretty much anything and yet, calling corruption and conflicts of interest in any business or organization is absolutely relevant for anyone who interacts with it. There's also the fact that journalists switch topics and industries and the behaviours are not limited to one industry. The problems I mentioned and access journalism are absolutely prevalent in politics journalism, which I doubt you'd say "doesn't matter" So your argument is just a poor attempt to dismiss a subject in a disingenuous way. The dismissive and rude label applied is just the cherry on top.