The Investigatory Power Act, enacted in to law just 4 years ago, gave (and preserved) some substantial surveillance powers within the UK. I think that happened right around the time development on this game started ramping up.
Isn’t the UK well known for it’s mass surveillance? These games always seem to depict some future caricature of reality, where seemingly every theoretical bad decision is made in succession.
The question of constitutionality doesn’t rest on how “important” anyone thinks the government official is.
This Twitch streamer is acting as a representative (public official) of the US Army. It is kinda seems exactly like the Trump case.
Are they also free to use the systems tools (like moderating) in exactly the way everyone else is able to? I think that is the operative question.
I am leaning towards NO, simply because they are a government agency and that would seem to tread on to the grounds of government censorship.
If it’s unconstitutional for Trump to block people on Twitter then the US Army shouldn’t be able to block people on Twitch.
These situations always feel a little like a performative circle jerk... we get to feel good about condemning this garbage (back pats all around for our socially responsible indignation) all while dolling out exactly the sort of attention the trolls live for.
The only long-term (semi-viable) solution I can think of for…
*shrug*
...the violence of John Brown and Nat Turner was just as integral to the fight for freedom as the speeches of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
As Foxxx put it, “We’re all fucking on camera. Why is a white woman worth so much more?”
We’ve been humans for hundreds of thousands of years and the period of time in which any one of us were likely to come upon another person that looked significantly different from our kin group is only the last 10,000 years (or so). Race, as we think of it today, is a social construct that has only been formalized in…
There are plenty of instances where context does not provide a defense for WofC, but the tendency to generically equate “black” with evil is nearly a ubiquitous cross-cultural concept that might have a lot more to do with our evolutionary history (not being nocturnal creatures, we tend to fear the darkness) than with…
This.
Whether you like to admit it, or not, police generally have hard jobs and necessarily make spur of the moment decisions that some amount of the time are going to be the wrong ones. There are somewhere around 700,000 full-time law enforcement officers active in the US and they collectively engage in millions of…
The painful irony is that many minority groups rally for this phenomenon within their own groups (keep Harlem black!, etc) even while it functions as one of the most insidious causes of systemic racism within the majority racial group.
A cruel and somewhat unfair point... not entirely wrong, but... people tend to clump ethnically and will tend to prioritize content based on the people that look like themselves. This bias, which drives most of us in to cultural and ideological silos, is bad for virtually everyone for a bunch of complicated reasons.
If someone is using off-the-shelf-zip-ties to restrain you this is extremely good information to have. So far as I understand, this technique will not work with the modern flex-cuffs used by law enforcement.
I mean... not that this article was implying you should try to escape from police restraints.
We’ll set aside the fact that the underlying statistics regarding police violence tend to mislead people on all sides of this discussion, for a bunch of reasons...
We should extend grace in most cases. I presume “black lives matter” doesn’t mean “only black lives matter” because I make a habit of not assuming the worst…