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Censorship according to the internet: "the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts."

I see public internet communication as a constantly published work of the human intellect, therefore all digitally published and public communication is media and therefore subject to censorship -- and Videosift now offers a form of individual censorship to its members, not simply the acceptable ignore feature which allows you to check the communication if you so desire.

It bothers me that people would completely block out other people's published work -- and not just their published work but their very existence -- for the same reason that it bothers me that people ban books I don't read at libraries. Mein Kampf is still a book, a poorly written book which glorifies hatred, but still an important part of human literature.

You can choose not to read it, but you can't censor it's existence from reality. Not without burning every copy and then erasing every digital copy. Though perhaps in the future an algorithm will be available which does something similar on an account wide level, visually removing all unfavorable literature and blocking people's facial features, making it so that that person and their communication might as well not exist. But I wouldn't want it to be nullified from my vision while walking through a library, anymore than I would want to nullify a person's existence who offends me; and by extension I believe the freedom to exist and to be acknowledged is an important freedom that we take for granted. You should NOT be able to remove someone from your personal existence. Yes, there are laws in place to do this, but they require criminal abuse to come into effect.

There are greater implications of this type of censorship, that perhaps do not apply directly to the Sift in it's short temporal existence and small community. But it's still an offence to my sense of justice in the realm of communication that such a thing is possible. Even the < ahref="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-04/14/google-algorithm-predicts-trolls-antisocial-behaviour">troll algorithm isn't intended to ban or censor trolls outright, but rather to detect problematic people and find a way to limit the harm they do to a community without removing them from a community.

I think it's one thing if you want to prevent someone from posting on your profile -- which is what should actually be an option (if it isn't already) -- but to silence their voice in video comments is a high form of censorship that I fundamentally stand against. I quite enjoyed some of what Chilngalera had to say; not always and often he offended me -- but not enough to desire to remove him from my existence. I don't think anyone except violent/sexual offenders deserve that. If he vocalizedd violence and sexual threats, why would he still be in the community at all? And if he's banned, why do you need to have an option to block out people's existence?

I was employed for many years to police several massive online roleplaying games, and an ignore feature was a widely accepted form of preventing harassment -- but when it came to erasing the person's avatar or their character's physical body from the game, we always voted against such outright blotting out of a human being. Our rational was and is to this day that if the person cannot communicate to you via explicit words, their presence is an acceptable form of nonverbal communication and a reminder that they are a human being in the community, even if verbally hobbled -- because at that point they have no means of articulating hurtful words.

But to erase that person's presence is a greater act against both the human spirit and human expression as to be a reprehensible act in an of itself. Unless they commit such atrocious behavior in the form of real life physical threats of violence, constant racial/sexual slurs (in a bucket system of soft banning leading up to a permanent ban) or other forms of insidiousness, preserving their humanity is more important to a community than erasing another human being.

This to me just looks like a bbw model and he has probably ask for some kind of interracial/rascist roleplay

I more concerned that she only seems to blink one eye!!!

So much.. rage! (gwiz665 here)

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Thanks for the quality.

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*quality

See, this is why I prefer dungeons and dragons. These guys just take their roleplaying game way too seriously.

>> ^Unaccommodated:

Hrrmm, doesn't feel right. "Restore rule of law"? I've always seen Anonymous as Chaotic Neutral, someone's not playing their character right.


Anonymous is nothing in particular. Its constituent parts are far too disparate in quality, intention, motivation, philosophy and character for any particular label or orientation to be correct.

Think of it like a cross-section of the internet. You've got some libertarian marxists, some catholics, some hacktivists, some pen-and-paper roleplayers, a sprinkling of psychopaths and more paedophiles than you'd ever want. Also, different "sorts" of Anonymous tend to gravitate towards different imageboards and a lot of the hacks down to a relatively small subsection of Anonymous which, generally, knows what it's doing. 4chan is less relevant than you'd think... It's just the biggest and, since 2007/8, is populated mostly by mental cases and children.

Reminds me a lot of the sniper sequence in The Hurt Locker, and how silly computer games and roleplaying games are. They sit there for what seems to be hours, watching and waiting, because they have no clue 1) how many sniper teams are out there and 2) if they managed to hurt those they've spotted enough to end their threat. As this video shows, there's no *plink* of experience points once a kill has been established. I found it really hard to go back to playing Fallout 3 and other games after watching the film.

>> ^blankfist:


I cheated on my fiancée and fucked your mom.


How do you cheat on someone with that same person? Or is this some kind of kinky roleplaying?

Oooooh, that kind of roleplay. *shakes dice*

I'd also say that the "roleplaying" part of MMORPG seems like just a small niche community. The majority of players do not really 'role play' their character.

For me at least, it's not really an 'alternative world' at all. It's a way to contact and play with about 24 people that, for the most part, I've been playing and chatting with for nearly 6 years now. I know most guildies by their first names, instead of whatever name the character has they are playing at this moment.

But yeah, of course it's a form of massive escapism. None of the things we do matter. But raiding for 4-5 hours in a night does keep real life away for a bit. But I guess that also applies to watching America's Got Talent or reading a book.

i can come up with a bunch of reasons why videos are sifting out and not in, i'd like to know that there's a real problem first of all tho!

I mean i have my homo penguin roleplay vampire movie parody to the tune of popular tuvaianian modern jazz, I mean who doesn't like that? Something must be wrong!@!

ROLEPLAY TIME!>> ^Hybrid:
Ohr Nro! Grod Dram Shrakaram! har-har-har inspect that Hanz Brix You grod dram crock sucker