>Last March, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sent letters to gaming companies Valve, Activision Blizzard, Epic Games, Riot Games, Roblox Corp, and Take-Two Interactive demanding that they take actions to police gamers.
>“Unlike more traditional social media companies — which in recent years have developed public facing policies addressing extremism, created trust and public safety teams, and released transparency reports — online gaming platforms generally have not utilized these tools,” Durbin wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. In the letter, Durbin requested a briefing from the Justice Department on what channels exist “for DOJ and the online video game industry to communicate and coordinate” on the threat of “online video games by extremists and other malicious actors.”
It is great to see the state secret police working so closely with large corporations. It is so efficient and effective that it is almost like a different model of government.
I'm pretty sure that this is sarcasm suggesting that police working with corporations is fascsim.
But... While this is definitely a feature of fascism, I don't see why it's a defining feature of fascism. Individuals are expected to collaborate with the police (eg if you have suspicions your neighbor is a terrorist preparing an attack) so why wouldn't the same apply to corporations? I don't see that as a difference significant enough to call it a different model of government.
Frankly I don't see what's wrong here. So often we see these lunatics that go out and kill a bunch of people, and when you look at their past you see an infinite number of red flags, and people go "it was obvious they were crazies, why didn't someone do something about it"
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 50.2 ms ] threadBe it Nazism or Communist Russia or the Maoist Cultural Revolution. And yet...
>“Unlike more traditional social media companies — which in recent years have developed public facing policies addressing extremism, created trust and public safety teams, and released transparency reports — online gaming platforms generally have not utilized these tools,” Durbin wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. In the letter, Durbin requested a briefing from the Justice Department on what channels exist “for DOJ and the online video game industry to communicate and coordinate” on the threat of “online video games by extremists and other malicious actors.”
ten years ago, this would read like satire.
But... While this is definitely a feature of fascism, I don't see why it's a defining feature of fascism. Individuals are expected to collaborate with the police (eg if you have suspicions your neighbor is a terrorist preparing an attack) so why wouldn't the same apply to corporations? I don't see that as a difference significant enough to call it a different model of government.
Frankly I don't see what's wrong here. So often we see these lunatics that go out and kill a bunch of people, and when you look at their past you see an infinite number of red flags, and people go "it was obvious they were crazies, why didn't someone do something about it"
Law breaking views. This is the world we live in.
Remember when they had to get a warrant for this shit?