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I'm not sticking around anyway. This isn't a place to stick around in anyway, this isn't a community, it's a business. I'm just passing through. I find this site to be a terrible place. As just one example I've noticed from browsing is that the hypocrites here ban people for a lifetime if they are software pirates (not only if they advocate software piracy or link to it). I know that every person I know well (except myself of course) has pirated software for example. My father, my mother, my cousins, my best friend, several of my university professors, my boss and my local deli owner.

I am sure that they who own this site are not different and everyone they know but their wholesome selves have done so. But because they are part of a corporate structure they see it from the corporate perspective and not the personal perspective. Now this wouldn't be an issue if there were a plethora of places to visit. But there aren't. And of course, they also ban you for evading bans. So essentially some poor sucker from a third world country or some kid who doesn't get a lot of money every month gets excluded from all mods for several games because they posted something oh so incriminating here on this wonderful place that just wants to "keep track of its users" by forcing registrations on them all.

 

It's disgusting. But it is nothing compared to what will happen with sites the big sites soon enough.

Also, your senators are not traitors. They serve their enablers. Why didn't you donate 1000 usd last year to your favourite candidate? What percentage of your income would that be in comparison to your total income? 4%?2?1? In a capitalist world money talks. The public isn't even paying their union dues while the wealthy organize capital to back their favourite candidates.

And no, HeyYou. Maybe if you're a basementdweller that changes their alias every 10 months you've been ignored. But many companies, systems and people have flourished in what used to be the free and open and community driven web that preceded this prison that is upon us now. It was torrents I am sure that forced the dawn of payed streaming sites and DRM free vendors like GOG and Humble Bundle. Social media was instrumental in several revolutions and revolts in Europe, the US and especially in the Arab countries. I wonder if it ever again will be now that "sensitive" content is to e censored or at the very least demonetized.

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What is fascinating is that you have the great opportunity to understand such power right here and now on a micro scale.
All my 9 posts were removed. Including the very benign one I made here. They are all being processed right now, I imagine to see if there can be a cumulative reason to ban me for legitimate reasons. Regardless I am sure that I will be removed soon enough.

If Google is ever pressured by government or other corporate interests or if it finds a new model to finance itself once Internet 2.0 (The corporate internet, the internet after net neutrality. Do @Google some of these terms before it's too late ) then you can imagine what is happening to me here to happen to you all on a macro scale.


Your voices will not be silenced nor even drenched out in the noise as Youtube is attempting to do now with its algorithms.
They will simply be ignored. One way streets in dark alleys that can no longer be accessed. Where wrong opinions are left to wallow in their own despair. edit: But worse than this so will the content that you create, unless you can afford a premium to go along with its hopefully benign nature.