#fuck COPPA 2.0

[spiritmandersiishipchildren]

!!!HEY EVERYONE!!!

SINCE THE US POLITICS TAG IS TRENDING RIGHT NOW, CAN WE GET TAGS RELATING TO KOSA AND COPPA 2.0 TRENDING?

THE SENATE WILL BE VOTING ON THEM TOMORROW (July 25th, 2024) AND THESE WITH MASSIVELY CENSOR THE INTERNET, ESPECIALLY FOR THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY AND ANYONE NEEDING MENTAL HELP! IT VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND IS BACKED BY THE PEOPLE BEHIND PROJECT 2025!

VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION! GO TO BADINTERNETBILLS AND TELL THE SENATE THAT WE WILL NOT LET THESE BILLS PASS!

[hamadisthings]

update on KOSA:

find you senators here

stopkosa call tool here

let congress know that we are listening to their movements

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( @txtstotheworld )

[kinopioa]

It's fascinating seeing people go "I miss the wild west era of the internet" and then learn they were born in 2003

Like fuck off. By the time you're 6 it was dead. The cutoff is around 06/7, and even that's debateable to have ended earlier

If we're being brutally honest-

1993-1998: True Wild West. Not much could happen due to limited tech, but it was completely unmonitored. I'm honestly surprised to find archives of old chats on Google

1998: The Coppa act is established, further taking effect in 2000. This made people aware that kids can access the internet. Teens barely gave a shit, though it made corporations more aware of them, and how to consider them for a market. It also unfortunately promoted age fraud to access barred login sites

1999-2005/6: User oriented era. This is when a lot of custom sites, blogs, and forums popped up, as well as many image hosting sites that are sadly defunct now. Google being a popular search engine further encouraged discovering these user made sites. Contrary to popular belief, user sites were mostly made and "moderated" by edgy kids and teens, so you WILL see the opinion of a 14yr old. Incidentally, due to domains being expensive, a lot of these teen made forums and personal sites died extremely fast, ignoring raids, doxxing, and flamewars

Video sharing while possible also was really crappy for quality...except for

User created flash games and anims enabled a massive spread of content. Newgrounds was a popular hosting spot. Shame Flash died

Outside that, we least we got bbphp as a solid forum template be popularized after many other ones died. For those less tech savvy, in 2003

We got social media. This was the main goto till smartphones and Twitter got popularized after 2006, and still was going strong until mid 2010s. Despite older netiquette of being encouraged to not post anything indentifiable about yourself, many users expressed themselves with music tastes and eventual personal blogs

2005/6: YouTube is released, as well as Dailymotion. Bootlegged Newgrounds anims popped up for uploads, but also shared tv show clips

Fun thing, before mid 2010s, users can only upload at max 15min of video

Similarly around 2005, Reddit similarly sparked up. More modern image hosting sites spurred around 2007/8

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But regardless, the public internet already changed massively after 2000. Web 2.0 was already a term from 1999 that described the change, with it being redefined for it occuring around 2004. I think one thing not noticed, the development of this tech mostly happened in the UK, due to general smaller population and faster telocommunication services compared to the US at the time. This similar impacted the type of audience that used this

I see people longing for a freer internet, and I agree online corporate control is shitty. But the dretches of humanity has severely stunted user diversity and interest, same with over prioritizing skill over general good collaboration and behavior. The modern tech bro absolutely not giving a shit for the userbase or societal problems and being very selfish can unfortunately be traced here. Same for rsmpant political misinformation being unmoderated, and early 90s fandom woes still having a negative impact on some franchises

I see dumbass self censoring like "unalive" on sites, and it's not even enforced. It's just stupid assumption that advertisors care so much

Which brings the question, why are we trying to heavily get into monetizing expression? I genuinely feel Ytube enabling users to do so is exactly why user content got obnoxious after 2013 when it got popular. Unfortunately it's way too late to undo that. Many rely on the monetizing

Though I find it funny when people ignore just...making their own site to bypass the censorship. bbphp again is open source, and there are many other online web creation tools. I can't even say the rise of tech illiteracy is why, tech illiterate people aren't the ones complaining of sites crapping out

Anyway, if you miss pre algorithm search engines results leading to you finding random shit, try this;

Unfortunately the reducing of child safe sites is another convo

[ideahat-universe]

How many people have the Nazis killed this year? 

That’s not a trick question. 

This isn’t a year where nothing happened so lets talk about the Nazis in our fandom. It has been a hysterical bloodbath with basically every form of human cruelty washing over the streets of every major city for everyday we haven’t been stuck inside our homes

A lot of people have been killed post George Floyd protests between the virus and the riots and the looting, billions of dollars in destruction that have taken place and thousands of lives that have been economically destroyed. 

A lot of people will be going into poverty this year and they may die in the street from starvation due to a lack of employment, lack of money, and a lack of government resource relief. 

Can anyone tell me how the Nazis are more of a concern or are a equal concern to all those things?

Are the Nazis behind the coming Great Depression 2.0? Are the Nazis tearing down statues of abolitionists and human rights heroes? 

Are the Nazis behind the surge in murder and crime? Are the Nazis seizing buildings and streets and creating autonomous zones? 

Did the Nazis develop a virus that may never have a cure?

Why should I care about Nazis? There’s so much real shit happening right now and none of it is being done by Neo Nazis. 

The Alantic are just fucking assholes who want to continue fueling the animosity and anger that is consuming modern civilization. 

How can we love each other if we are constantly looking for ways to audit and persecute one another?

Fuck Nazis! Unless they’re goosestepping down the streets of Manhattan they don’t fucking matter, we have actual problems to concern ourselves with and if you are a brony just enjoy the fandom and be grateful that it exists. 

For decades there wasn’t a MLP fandom to care about, Painting ponies and buying rare figurines on ebay was the fandom for a really long time and during that time it was the punchline to a joke, people didn’t even know about all the cool stuff the series had done back then because all they saw was plastic toys being sold to girls and assumed it was boring, unwatchable garbage. Now people actually care and the show has a thriving and diverse culture and I don’t even know if this will continue to exist once the next generation fully emerges as it’s already winding down in a lot of ways and controversies hurt fandoms, they don’t help fandoms. 

I talked to a lot of people who have already walked away from MLP. And these people didn’t walk because of racism or sexism. They walked because the show itself was letting them down and they were starting to tire of the fandom.

Have you seen what has happened to majority of MLP clips? Most of them have been claimed by Coppa. thousands of comments have been erased forever and the video clips are effectively shadow banned. You can’t comment on them, you can’t share them, you can’t even watch them in the mini window. 

A lot of talented contributors to the fandom have moved on. If you care about MLP enough to want to rout Nazis from it maybe you should try giving people to stay in the fandom given that Friendship is Magic is over, not everyone liked how it ran from beginning to end and that despite it’s flaws and possibility of the next generation being worse, that the fandom does in fact have ways to justify it’s own existence. 

This is not the way. The only enemy we need to fight is the one that says that we need to fight amongst ourselves. 

And the way to win that fight is to just ignore them and focus on what we love.