LogFAQs > #972513069

While I was surprised plum caught a warning for that post, I dunno if prior mod history played a role. Plus, I do think it is the case the mods here are touchier around events like that while they're still very recent.

But GameFAQs moderation on the whole is almost as far from "cancel culture" as you can get while still having a moderation team. It's actually way too lenient IMO, hell I argued to the staff when they were floating relaxing the rules back like eight years ago that we were already too lenient then and it was a policy change in the wrong direction. Unless you're 100% trying to get banned you basically can't get banned here. At worst you get put in timeout for a week or so and there's no rules against having as many alt accounts as you need to circumvent that. Hell, if you do get banned they generally don't touch those either so it's hardly a punishment at all.

As for cancel culture on the whole, I feel like there are vanishingly few examples of successful "cancellings" I can think of and they all tend to be for taking left-aligned political stands like Kaepernick. On the right, not only does it not actually work (see how Netflix responded to the Chappelle stuff) but even if it causes a temporary inconvenience they have their own media ecosystem that will welcome you with open arms so you've still got a platform.

I'm really wracking my brain here for people getting genuinely cancelled (permanently, and not just rebounding after a brief period of bad PR) for expressing opinions on the right of the spectrum. ...Kanye? And only after he went completely batshit that one day?

AriaOfBolo posted...

people are freakin out about the resist act should I be also freakin out about the resist act

lookin for more stuff to freak out about, I don't have enough

So I was actually trying to find an outlet that I trusted to break it down yesterday because I've seen some alarming takes on it but also outlets I trust saying those takes are out of context/not what the bill actually says.

I'm still looking for a good breakdown of it but where I'm at now in the meantime is "It's a genuinely terrible bill but probably not as dystopian as I've seen some people saying."

What I mean is I've seen a bunch of posts about "If you use a VPN to bypass it you can face 20 years in jail" but AFAIK the actual text would be aimed at the VPN provider not the end user. Which is still super bad but not as comic book villain bad as if it were users. But even then I'm not 100% sure this is the right take because it's been so annoying to find trustworthy info on this.