Released: August 23rd, 2024.

Shutting down: September 6th, 2024.

Speedrun strats?

Of fucking course Bloomberg would describe Blizzard as “Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming staff.”

FUCKING BASED

I love the defiant cursed energy here.

That’s basically the idea behind these laws.

Conservatives want to make porn illegal, which isn’t easy under traditional means, so they’re taking the “Putin” approach as I put it, make viewing porn hard, unattractive or even dangerous and make delivering porn to people hard, unattractive and dangerous.

Requiring an ID from the government to view porn means the government can tell who is watching what. If one of those people happens to run for office or get a little too campaigny, their porn history can be named and shamed.

And porn providers know this, and know that will drive people away from their sites, and on top of this implementing this will likely be bureaucratic and likely expensive, so they’ll stop serving an area.

And when this is applied to non porn sites that have porn like Reddit or twitter or Tumblr, well guess what’s going to happen, those sites will ban porn from their site.

It’s basically banning porn by making it impossible to get porn in a way that doesn’t end up with you getting blackmailed. Children have nothing to do with it.

They’re using child safety as an excuse to pass this bill, which is funny because criminals don’t tend to care about the law and thus will just move to (now illegal) encrypted services.

It’s doubly interesting because Boris Johnson (the former prime minister and head of the party who came up with this bullshit) is literally hiding behind the fact he can’t find the passcode for his encrypted WhatsApp messages to stop the COVID enquiry seeing evidence he has in regards to how COVID was handled, and members of his party, who proposed this bill, are saying it’s an attack on democracy that he hands over these encrypted messages.

In short, the government is coming for YOUR encryption but they’ll keep using it to keep info they don’t want you to know, thank you very much!

Modern Pop country can go to hell. Want to listen to country, go look up Bluegrass or Folk Punk.