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7 months ago
in Who’s your Daddy? on The Metaverse Journal
wow, someone is a little pissy today...
I'm a US citizen and I think what Rep. Kirk is proposing is "loco" and shows a fundamental problem with our elected officials not understanding technology.
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Also, I have no problems if media outlets from other countries report on and analyze the happenings of our country. In the age of global communities, why is anyone's ideas about government out of bounds simply because they aren't a citizen? Especially when it is an issue that affects an entire industry...
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I'm a US citizen and I think what Rep. Kirk is proposing is "loco" and shows a fundamental problem with our elected officials not understanding technology.
<rant response>
Also, I have no problems if media outlets from other countries report on and analyze the happenings of our country. In the age of global communities, why is anyone's ideas about government out of bounds simply because they aren't a citizen? Especially when it is an issue that affects an entire industry...
</rant response>
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Prokofy Neva
Again, it's perfectly fine to push back when someone else comments on the politics of your country, especially in ways that imply your freedom to elect your representative to do what you wish is limited by the whims of foreigners.
I don't say he "can't" comment, but I push back. I don't support the ideas of Kirk, but he's not my rep, I didn't vote for him, he's not in my state. I *do* respect the will of the voters he *does* represent.
Did Rep. Kirk succeed in passing a federal law that limits all our rights? No, he did not. He is drafting legislation, as one representative in one state, but I don't see that it has succeeded even on a state level, let alone a national level. It fulfills the need of letting people express themselves, a kind of public forum, that they wish these powerfully influential media devices called virtual worlds to have some regulation. I sure don't have a problem with them exercising that will, and having that freedom of expression.
So often those on the hard left want freedom of expression for themselves, and not for others, and want to express, but never be pushed back.
It's not about "technology" -- which you invoke to hide behind "technical" solutions when in fact it is a social issue. No, you do not get to impose your hedonism and licentiousness on others. That's as oppressive as them imposing their more conservative lifestyle on you.
And the point of the OP's post is to try to STOP what is the expression of the electorate of another country, and I'm sorry, but they DO NOT get to do that. Not in the name of technology, of "global" industry or any other fake utopian notion.
I don't say he "can't" comment, but I push back. I don't support the ideas of Kirk, but he's not my rep, I didn't vote for him, he's not in my state. I *do* respect the will of the voters he *does* represent.
Did Rep. Kirk succeed in passing a federal law that limits all our rights? No, he did not. He is drafting legislation, as one representative in one state, but I don't see that it has succeeded even on a state level, let alone a national level. It fulfills the need of letting people express themselves, a kind of public forum, that they wish these powerfully influential media devices called virtual worlds to have some regulation. I sure don't have a problem with them exercising that will, and having that freedom of expression.
So often those on the hard left want freedom of expression for themselves, and not for others, and want to express, but never be pushed back.
It's not about "technology" -- which you invoke to hide behind "technical" solutions when in fact it is a social issue. No, you do not get to impose your hedonism and licentiousness on others. That's as oppressive as them imposing their more conservative lifestyle on you.
And the point of the OP's post is to try to STOP what is the expression of the electorate of another country, and I'm sorry, but they DO NOT get to do that. Not in the name of technology, of "global" industry or any other fake utopian notion.
Personally, I find the suggestion that no-one can commentate on the politics of another country a little strange, as JJ alluded to.
It's a position riddled with double standards given how often the current US President and his ambassador have inserted themselves into Australian political debate, particularly in regard to Iraq and the US-instigated economic issues affecting the world at present.