I don’t know, nor am I speculating. The person I was replying to said they didn’t see a browser check in the code, which isn’t enough to dismiss it.

They don’t need to put incriminating “if Firefox” statements in their code – the initial page request would have included the user agent and it would be trivial to serve different JavaScript based on what it said.

Was she? Any posts about “why isn’t X banned too?” were buried under an avalanche of reactionary tantrums about losing their platform to discuss hitting children. For the overwhelming majority of users, it was “this goes too far”, not “this doesn’t go far enough”.

Which means that realistically, she never got past the low hanging fruit. These were the days when a lot of these places still had plausible deniability so it was easy to pull in wider support.

My baseless guess is that she came in as CEO and noticed they were handing over some very predictable post histories every time there was a mass shooting but couldn’t come out and say “check out all these domestic terrorists” because it would damage the brand.

And looking back, she was absolutely in the right clearing out those communities.

Don’t worry, it’s AI generated.

FYI: You’ve now escalated to making knowingly-false accusations about a specific person.

Only dark, lewd fantasies about the sexual assualt of their kids right?

Quality play. That’ll absolutely convince people that you’re the good guy if they somehow find themselves at the bottom of this thread without having read your wet mouthed defense of the sharing of photorealistic images of children being raped.

Awful pearl-clutchy for someone advocating for increased community support for photorealistic images of children being raped.

Which do you think is more acceptable to Lemmy in general? Someone saying “fuck”, or communities dedicated to photorealistic images of children being raped?

Maybe I’m not the one who should be changing their behavior.

I have no problem saying that writing stories about two children having gay sex is pretty fucked in the head, along with anyone who forms a community around sharing and creating it.

But it’s also not inherently abuse, nor is it indistinguishable from reality.

You’re advocating that people just be cool with photo-realistic images of children, of any age, being raped, by any number of people, in any possible way, with no assurances that the images are genuinely “fake” or that pedophiles won’t be driven to make it a reality, despite other pedophiles cheering them on.

I was a teenage contrarian psuedo-intellectual once upon a time too, but I never sold out other peoples children for something to jerk off too.

If you want us to believe its harmless, prove it.

And are you able to offer any evidence to reassure us that simulated child pornography doesn’t increase the risk to real children as pedophiles become normalised to the content and escalate (you know, like what already routinely happens with regular pornography)?

Or are we just supposed to sacrifice children to your gut feeling?

Personal attacks are a logical fallacy but thanks for making your own bad faith approach blatantly obvious.

Which means that you’re not inherently wrong just because you’re an apologist dildo looking for any excuse to white knight for billionaires.

But you can still be wrong and you can still be an apologist dildo.

Shrieking “Ad Hominem!” when people grow tired of your ineptly masked bullshit isn’t a magic “win argument” button.

It is however a good way to get blocked. So go nuts. Tell us all about how flawless capitalism is and pretend you won something when I don’t reply.

So “the damage has been done” but also, “it won’t have negative long term impacts”, even as people leave the site and are openly hostile towards it’s staff?

It sounds like you’re awkwardly trying to reconcile “using predatory API pricing to increase ad impressions is bad, but corporations milking customers for everything they can is good and resisting that is pointless”.

Also, I never mentioned capitalism at all, I mentioned neoliberalism. My bet is that you thought I was a tankie and this was your chance to show everybody just how clever and rational and realist you were.

Bettee luck next time I guess.

Their valuation halved back at the start of June. Since then, they’ve tried every sleazy trick they can think of to claw it back before their IPO. All of those changes will have negative long term impacts but the staff don’t care since they’ll bail the moment they have their cash.

The rest of your comment is just you taking a wild guess at my political opinions and getting them wrong.

Shhh. Neoliberism doesn’t worry about the future, neoliberism is only interest in the profits that can be had today. Questions like “what will we do next month?” or “what if our greed makes the earth inhospitable to life?” are not welcome.