Context is king.

If you’re scuba diving and you’re using the OK symbol, no one is gonna’ bat an eyelid. If you’re attending Nazi rallies and ranting on Twitter about ‘Globalists’ and ‘Soros’ and using it, you’re going to attract a different sort of attention.

The article already addresses this defence. It doesn’t hold up.

Pushing white supremacists to adopt a new a symbol is less a psyop and more like helping spread Nazi propaganda.

In almost every instance of seeing this used IRL in the US in the past couple of years, it’s been by Nazis, members of the alt-right and Trump supporters. It’s on their white supremacist forums, their reddit threads, their twitter handles, they make the symbol at rallies and gatherings.

To you it might always mean…

‘How to not accidentally appear to be a Nazi’ seems like a pretty sweet lifehack to me.

Symbols gain power through usage. When the kinds of people that use this symbol also share white supremacist views then the symbol takes on that meaning, regardless of its original meaning.

If you’re familiar with white supremacist/alt-right circles, you’ll know they have hundreds of ways of expressing their views…

The ubiquity of it doesn’t make it any less wrong.
Putting something in an 8px font in a 50 page ToS doesn’t justify it either. ToS are absurd to the point of being meaningless. See:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apps-terms-of-use/

As ironic as the situation may seem, they still make a very good point. HOW ArenaNet are going about detecting cheating is totally unacceptable.

And all those 99¢ e-books of werewolves fucking dinosaurs are why books will never be taken seriously as a creative medium.

You had me right up until that last statement, which is absolute nonsense.

What a damp squib of a launch for a remarkably unimpressive game - ‘alpha’ or not. From the comprehensive screenshot gallery on Ars Tecnica (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/radical-heights-is-too-embarrassing-a-pubg-clone-to-hide-behind-early-access/) they look they couldn’t have rushed this out of the door any…

Thanks for that super detailed and well linked response!

I’m a heavy Wikipedia user and I literally had no idea of the politics going on behind the scenes. Will definitely keep an eye on this one as it’d be such a shame for one of the greatest resources of the 21st century to be mired by such petty and unnecessary…

Clue me in because I haven’t heard of this before - what sexism problem?

You’ve somehow posted your reply on the wrong article. I don’t even know how you’d do this on Kinja?

In summary: turn your images on.

Always a +1 for Austin. Love this dude!

I’m a game industry person and I went into the article assuming it was about someone connected to Blizzard or the Overwatch development team in some way.

Not saying this would be the most correct interpretation but it’s just how it occurred to me upon reading it.

So the lesson here is; you can be an awful person, scam and deceive your fans, many of whom are children AND have a court find you guilty of breaking law and your punishment will be the continued support of your fan-base, the means to maintain your lavish lifestyle and be rewarded with expenses paid trips and…

I only discount this option because of how poorly written and obviously slapdash the reviews are. If any executive of a multi-million dollar triple A publisher wanted to bot-farm a few hundred, or even thousand positive reviews, they could do so for such a ludicrously cheap amount and have reviews that actually…

Two ways to go with it I think:

I’ve never had this experience. You should contact Amazon because clearly something nefarious is going on at your local depot.