It's the conservative parties who keep violating free expression though.

E.g., an Ontario ag-gag law that prevented certain types of whistleblowling that had part of it struck down over free expression last month (edit: paywall free article).

Or Saskatchewan suspending free expression to pass their pronoun law.

Or with Internet legislation, the article mentions a Liberal bill, but the Conservatives are supporting another one that would require providing your identity to access websites with adult content and censoring websites that don't comply with it. That could in theory at least be used to censor a lot of Internet sites, even reddit.

Won't somebody think of the children?!

Most sane people agree that children should not have the same "rights" as everyone else, since they're too stupid to make decisions for themselves. Maybe not Canadians, though...

I'm a free speech absolutist, so I don't want anybody getting arrested, or facing any other legal trouble, based solely on speech. Excepting, of course shouting "fire" and causing a panic; or direct, specific, threats such as "I intend to assassinate [public figure] on [X date]." Anything less than that should be free and clear. The only fears that people should have for expressing an opinion, no matter how controversial, should be private and interpersonal.

I don't know...that quickly hits the issue we are having with Drag Queens.

They are fully within their rights to dress up and entertain...but they feel very threatened to do so by groups standing outside venues harassing them (and it isn't targeted at an individual but at a group they happen to opt into). Do they still have their freedom of expression if they are concerned for their physical well being if they show up at the event?

I think that only the person who actually assaulted somebody should get charged. By the time that we get to adulthood, we're expected to keep our tempers. I suspect that most people have a strong temptation to strike somebody on a daily basis, I certainly do, but we just don't do it. Assaulting somebody is a crime, if you went to trial and said "he called me an N-word, so I hit him", that's probably not going to convince a judge; it might convince a few jurors to commit Jury Nullification and hang the jury, but that's another matter.

Sorry, I did a bit of a double take reading this. Is it actually your intention that "most people" go through their lives with a strong temptation to indulge in physical violence on a daily basis? That's...remarkable.

Whenever I see a redditor's take I get an uncontrollable urge to

There were no memes about this. I never once encountered someone discussing the skin color or intellect of Erudites they were simply another race to pick from especially if you wanted to cap your INT stat.

This was 1999 and for the next decade remained immune to whatever racial dialogue was going on outside the world of gaming. We were just nerds having fun in the best MMORPG ever created.

!nonchuds what happened to the internet since then?

Enjoy this banger login music from back in the day.

!coomers the box art for these games was .

Her name is Firiona Vie.

Rohith Vemula's suicide was the single biggest reason behind the shift in political discourse from economy to caste in 2016. They found out today that he committed suicide in fear of his real caste being revealed as he did not belong to the category but still took SC quota.

— Arjun* (@mxtaverse) May 3, 2024

OK he wasn't a precious delete you're free to go. We'd have to execute you otherwise

Aboriginal kid named Keegan won $1 million in prize money after winning a fishing competition

Gets interviewed by Sky News, the right-wing rag of Australia, and the host Pete Stefanovic asks the important questions:

>“There is a claim online that you stole a Polaris Ranger and Polaris quad that you and your friends stole and damaged from a business a few years back. First of all, is that true?” Stefanovic asked.

>A shocked Payne, who was sitting in the Darwin Sky News studio, quietly said “yes”.

>Pushed to explain himself, Payne said he and his mates “weren't thinking at the time”, were “still young” and that he regretted it “big time”.

They started a petition to get him to apologise

He bows to public pressure

Further seething on r/australia:

I hope WW3 happens.

Too mamy people on this sorry excuse of a planet.

— BluePhoenix (CEO of Mark VI GEN 1 Gang) (@benoski73) May 2, 2024

siiiiip

Remember Star Wars Republic Commando? Fun game for its age. One of the characters in your squad was a commando named Scorch, and he recently had been making "cameos" in Star Wars The Bad Batch, a spin off of the Clone Wars show. Taking place after Revenge of the Sith, the show involves a group of clones that did not betray the Jedi and now go on wacky adventures. Scorch was not one of these clones, appearing as an enemy at times. The other night, the finale for the show aired in which the Batch killed Scorch.

Our chud of topic here is BluePhoenix, a 27 year old Star Wars and Halo fan. BP starts losing it over Scorch's death.

https://twitter.com/benoski73/status/1785755369320419828

He starts losing it, and I mean, losing it. This guy cannot believe media would kill off a character that hasn't been used in anything else for 20 years.

We finally get to the linked "I hope WW3 happens" tweet which reaches a slightly larger audience.

People also start memeing it

The guy's still reeing about the death over a day later.

Considering he can't stop talking about it, I can only assume that this has become a fetish for him.

Before:

After:

No more quick trollaway accounts now that signing up requires an email address:

https://twitter.com/aniwilc/status/1786075565419630899

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/normal-kids-get-fricked-columbia-cornell-protests-fraternities

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-suspended-us-green-card-applications-foreign-workers-2024-4

https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1786007150562828542

Tldr

It used to be as a foreign worker you'd get sponsored for a green card after working at a big tech for a few years.

But due to layoffs companies have to first make a case for why they laid off an American to then sponsor a foreigner. Google, now Amazon and others have stopped it

I'm surprised you're not reporting on this.

The Sharty has uncovered an extremely well established p-dophile and animal s*x abused material trading ring hiding in open sight on YouTube.

I have gone through the thread and investigated for myself, and I can confirm that links lead to both beastiality and child abuse materials. I have purged the VM that was used to investigate for obvious reasons. I never want to see shit like that again in my life.

The original thread links to a channel called Mister Kopi (Archive link) that appears innocent enough from the video content, however as highlighted by the OP of Sharty, when viewing the thumbnails of the channel:

The following is the best way to describe how they are distributing these materials without being caught by safeguards put in place to prevent linking to illegal materials.

Password text flashes randomly throughout video

Linking to a secon video

Posting another link to Pastebin

Leading to the Pastelink requiring the password. I will not be accessing or showing what is contained behind this after the VM was purged for obvious reasons however multiple people - unfortunately myself included - can confirm that the materials contained in such are fricking horrendous.

I also theorize why they post the password in such a cryptic manner aside from hiding from the AI and automatic screens and I believe they are doing this as to improve any potential revenue and exposure by YouTube. The passwords appear to be intentionally framed in such a way as to avoid someone getting it from previewing the timeline, and as such it makes the viewer go from start to finish. These channels are potentially monetized and making direct income from doing this.

Speaking of income, another entirely fricking horrendous fact is that these channels appear to have monetisation from other sources - in this channel alone there are links to paid click-through advertisements meaning that this individual is making direct income from people accessing child s*x abuse materials.

It doesn't stop there, however. There is an entire fricking economy of these channels - mostly appearing from Indonesia, however a common trend pops up. This is from one video.

When accessing channels such as the above you will find that they are using the exact same method.

This is a well established and highly operational p-dophile ring that is potentially making money directly from YouTube and other websites for doing so. It is entirely out in the open and appears to be operating for at least a year if not longer.

https://www.engadget.com/fcc-votes-to-restore-net-neutrality-protections-161350168.html

Here's some dude saying that's horrible

https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1783559014950854704

Very well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes.

It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 2, 2024

Nicky has been making hundreds of alts which keep getting banned since he was meganuked years ago. Finally he is free from the prison called Gab.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2803310/The_Detractor/

!ranchers !g*mers !r-slurs

The claims⁠, which were mainly shared on X (formerly Twitter) but also popped up across Reddit and Facebook, range from Vanguard preventing startup programs from firing correctly to other programs crashing when the anti-cheat software loads, and some have even suggested Riot's kernel program has been “tampering with unrelated files.” Others simply dubbed it “malware” and declared they would be quitting League until the program stopped breaking PCs.

One high-profile example came from famed League creator LS, who reported both his computers breaking after Vanguard was installed on May 1. He said he fixed one by taking out the CMOS battery and forcing BIOS access, but suggested his other computer is “still bricked.”

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Several user posts on the purported Vanguard issues have also been shared to the main League subreddit but they have since been deleted.

While Riot has yet to address any of the early backlash directly, tech staff have been active in the “Patch 14.9 Bug Megathread” on /r/LeagueOfLegends. One Riot reply suggested some of today's alleged issues “wouldn't be related to Vanguard” and offered up a simpler solution⁠—restart impacted devices and run PC troubleshooting.

The same Riot staffer also suggested any aggrieved players could upload Riot Vanguard logs to the League support page to help “isolate what the issue is.” All the Reddit comments from that Rioter have since been removed.