• Re: AOL makes Doom wads "Off Limits"

    From plateshutoverlock@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jul 4 11:30:39 2023
    ..
    BTW: I hope no one takes this the wrong way, but I
    wish the media would shut up about Columbine. It
    seems this incident is being used to spread censorship,
    or is compelling self censorship in various areas.
    I am truly worried what will happen if some one else
    decides to go banannas. Funny, AOL didn't seem to cut
    the coverage on the internal news sites.
    No other explanation is offered.
    Of course the Doom resourses on the Internet are still available for
    AOL members who know how to find them, but it strikes me as odd they would >make them off limits to everyone, particularly since they have the parental >controls option which can be used to restrict them from young kids.
    Probaly image/liability worries.

    We live in an era where suspects in a felony case are blurred
    out in the news media, and people in high places are quivering
    under the table in fear of the big bad "liability", no matter
    how real the threat actually is. And there are terrorists, chomos,
    mass shooters, and killer clowns hiding behind every bush
    just waiting to get you.

    Robots and lemmings. One person gets scared we all must get
    scared and anyone who does not march in this line must be some
    kind of "threat" that we need to have beat up and thrown into
    a cell forever with the Booty Bandit.

    And is it any wonder people are flipping out left and right
    getting gacked up on shit like fentanyl knowing how deadly
    it is just for a temporary escape from all this madness and
    loss of hope?

    Too bad AOL did the kneejerk and pulled those wads to in reality
    save their own skins. I'm sure many of them didn't make it
    to the internet at large and were lost forever. Group punishment.
    One Doom fan did wrong we all must pay.

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  • From D. Ray@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 8 16:36:56 2023
    plateshutoverlock <blinkingblythe01@gmail.com> writes:

    We live in an era where suspects in a felony case are blurred
    out in the news media

    I'm not sure who are you replying to because I can't see the original
    message on my server, but I can assure you that you're talking to a
    person from different era, probably more than a decade ago.

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