The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3320637

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    1455·
    1 year ago

    Youtube needs to be punished for their hypocrisy.

    Average Joe gets a community guidelines strike for “promoting violence” because he said “Dead” instead of “Unalived”, but Penis Prager can advocate for beating your gay kids till they turn straight and YouTube just throws it into everyone’s playlists without so much as a “Boys will be boys”

    • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      237·
      1 year ago

      Who is going to punish them? The leaders who agree with Prager that you can beat the gay out of your kids aren’t gonna get behind that.

      A significant portion of our population is hoping for a way to degay their kids.

      Man, I’m gonna be all doom and gloom when I go back to bed here in a few.

      For me, it seems hopeless. We’ll all be further radicalized by the thing that I thought for most of my life would bring salvation, our access to the Library of Shitexander. A big old library filled with information, Ricky. Information on the workings of electricity. Information on the life and work of Isaac Newton. Information on how to cannibalize your neighbor. Information on how some grifter talks to god and knows exactly what he wants. We can learn useful skills like, how to hate black people and why we should. We can learn how to kickoff Armageddon, and why nuclear weapons are biblical and mutually assured destruction isn’t only a good thing, it’s what we should strive for.

      And because we humans create information, we have arguments about who should decide what kind of information is available. Free speech absolutists will say that anything goes and is fair game. Others will say that some speech is dangerous because it influences hatred and bigotry. Each group has representation and has to compromise in order to keep things from escalating, oh but compromise might escalate things too.

      Our species was born from chaos looking for a leader who didn’t exist.

      I’m just gonna ride the rock until I’m not riding it any more and hope the people of the future don’t destroy each other and can someday figure out that that god ain’t coming back. What else can we do?

      You guys have a good morning. I’m heading back to bed.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          1 year ago

          Just ride the rock bud. We’re at least lucky enough to live in a time and place where we can play video games and eat pizza.

          I spend too much time listening to and reading about the history of conflict and cults. It’s hard for me to have hope when I see the same thing happening over and over again for thousands of years.

          I don’t need hope though because I’m an idiot who can’t change anything.

          Good, smart people are out there working for change, seriously working. Maybe they’ll keep things together for a long time.

          Maybe you can be one of them.

          If not, just ride the rock and enjoy the things you enjoy. Nothing wrong with that.

          I’m sorry I put my gloom on you.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      There is a good reason for that, and that is that Penis Prager is a bigger payoff for Google.