Ain’t nothing wrong with this world that a little bit of nuclear war wouldn’t fix

We’re supposed to feel extra sorry for this… person because they’re a member of the US military?

Why are you like this?

The question is, how many other articles with fake quotes are there on Ars? And not just Ars, but across the mainstream media

Why not do your own thing?

Conservatives are incapable of doing anything original or constructive

Yeah, the “platonic ideal downvote” is only supposed to be used for content that “doesn’t contribute to the conversation” or whatever, but that is very often just not the case. There’s even research on how downvotes easily lead to a bandwagon effect: here’s a blog post on this, based on a research article.

Hmm, I should probably create a Beehaw account and move over there. It’s a shame that account migration really isn’t a thing on Lemmy

Apparently you still can’t criticise the Holy Ars even when they put out AI slop articles, because that’s SPITTING ON BABIES

Downvotes are just samethink fuel.

Not every good meal has to be a Michelin Star affair

Is eating a vegetable your threshold for “Michelin Star affair”?

Point Nemo would be a very bad place for sea steading.

No no, it would be an excellent place for seasteading. Best idea ever.

At a farm upstate, right?

put him in jail forever.

That’s not the solution with fascists, but saying the solution out loud will get you banned

That’s… that’s terrible. Like I replied to that just a while ago, I wouldn’t be surprised if this leads to further radicalisation of Americans if they do actually end up using UpScrolled.

Putting my tinfoil hat on, this actually feels like a reich-wing ploy

Holy crap that’s even worse than I thought. I tried making an account just to check it out myself even though I’m not at all interested in the service itself, but their email verification emails just never come through even though I tried several times (I’m using Proton, and no they didn’t end up in spam). Seems like I’m much better off, never having to come into contact with… that.

So this isn’t even a “from the frying pan into a slightly cooler frying pan” situation, but more like “from the frying pan into the open core of a nuclear reactor”. I wouldn’t be surprised if this even further radicalises Americans

Exactly. It’s been proven time and time again that if you have absolutely zero moderation except for blatantly illegal content, you’ll eventually be running a Nazi bar.

Although in UpScrolled’s case, I’m not sure if they weren’t explicitly out to build a Nazi bar since they do seem to have a huge Nazi and antisemitism problem (well, problem for anyone who’s not a Nazi anyhow) and they’ve apparently mass-banned trans people. So this profusion of Nazis might be a “it’s a feature and not a bug” scenario, even though their TOS seemingly disallows hate speech.

Also, for an “anti-censorship” platform it’s funny that they ban any kind of “adult” content.

It’s not that I disagree with that, but I can guarantee that our government doesn’t think of technofascist dominance as a bad thing. Like @[email protected] said, this is being pushed to make it easier to gather data on us. Age verification does nothing to fix the underlying problem.

This government is explicitly antidemocratic and is eg. working on expanding police and military intelligence’s ability to wiretap and hack people, even if they aren’t suspected of a specific crime. There is exactly zero chance that the data on who logged into what service will not be used against us citizens eventually.

My point exactly.

Knowing our far right government (don’t be fooled by the NCP calling themselves “fiscal conservatives”, they’re no better than the 2 actual far right parties in the government), this is just an excuse to increase control and surveillance of citizens

Maximus Mighty-Dog Mueller II

Building a Nazi bar to make sure pro-Palestinian voices are heard seems like a suboptimal solution, though