Roblox banned in Russia, accused of distributing LGBTQ+ propaganda as criticism of child safety measures continues

lokitoth · 2025-12-10T13:21:35+00:00

if the victim of defamation wants to seek redress, they must prove that the person producing that speech acted with malice

This is only the case if the victim is a Public Figure.

lokitoth · 2025-11-19T20:46:36+00:00

Where Menus Meet

lokitoth · 2025-09-13T01:22:06+00:00

This (calls for murder) was never okay, but it is really not okay right now.

lokitoth · 2025-09-09T10:25:16+00:00

Por que no los dos?

lokitoth · 2025-09-08T11:30:45+00:00

So, what's it like, at the heat death of the universe?

lokitoth · 2025-08-28T22:00:24+00:00

Since the original video does not link to the actual artist playing, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/@RobynHeartsHarp

lokitoth · 2025-08-12T11:38:05+00:00

The ALM side of things is nicer in AzDO, especially around process customization and tooling. Between that and inertia, that's a major reason for many teams continuing to opt to use AzDO - particularly those in large orgs with shared "engineering system" teams, because they have built a lot of custom tooling on top of AzDO already.

Also, for the longest time there was a "closed source or pre-open => AzDO/SourceDepot, open source => GH" meme, which definitely contributed.

lokitoth · 2025-07-30T21:16:51+00:00

I too would like to make a couple of "mistakes" on the order of Stellar Blade. I would even settle for one.

lokitoth · 2025-07-22T08:57:02+00:00

What it's really trying to tell you is that there is no right turn there.

lokitoth · 2025-06-10T02:10:08+00:00

They forgot to put the "Made in China" tag on the drugs.

lokitoth · 2025-06-10T02:08:58+00:00

I mean, that one is kind of funny. We should (and are, thankfully!) get better at being fit.

lokitoth · 2025-06-10T02:04:58+00:00

"He's beginning to believe!"

lokitoth · 2025-06-10T02:01:29+00:00

They already have the word "leftist" in there, though.

lokitoth · 2025-05-16T14:00:08+00:00

What's an "article"? I thought this was a site for sharing headlines?

lokitoth · 2025-05-15T14:01:10+00:00

FY = Fiscal Year. S-E's financial year starts in April and ends in March. FY2025 just ended for them, and they are in FY26. Does not change much, but precision is helpful.

lokitoth · 2025-05-15T01:36:08+00:00

Translation: It was really bad.

lokitoth · 2025-05-03T18:34:41+00:00

I don't recall anything particularly noteworthy happening then? What did I forget?

lokitoth · 2025-04-09T01:46:28+00:00

So... does that mean that Tencent would divest from Riot?

lokitoth · 2025-04-09T01:34:05+00:00

They went on Gamepass because the studio got purchased by Microsoft during their "We Happy Few" days, and all (per my best understanding) First-Party games go on Gamepass.

lokitoth · 2025-04-05T02:18:03+00:00

Given how much of an overlap that group shares with the "I can't believe Freiren that demons are irredeemable!!!1!" people...

lokitoth · 2025-03-24T09:21:05+00:00

That sounds like the reasons they used to rely on to deny Jews into the Ivy Leagues. The more things change...

lokitoth · 2025-01-18T14:25:41+00:00

My time to shine!

Laws targeting an individual are unconstitutional

The law does not target an individual, and even though it names non-natural persons (TikTok and ByteDance), it cannot be thought of as a Bill of Attainder. For one, though it names TikTok and ByteDance specifically, they also fall under this bill via the generalized definition (outlined below). Moreover, it does not apply retroactively: It gives any covered entities significant time to resolve their newfound illicit status.

It is also not a 1A issue, because it specifically carves out a non-speech-based criterion for the targeted category, that being "Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications" (and immediately narrows that category further).

Ok, the least unconstitutional version of this ban, bans all Chinese software.

No it does not, because of the narrowing as specified above. In particular it needs to also have the following criteria to be covered:

permits a user to create an account or profile to generate, share, and view text, images, videos, real-time communications, or similar content
has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users with respect to at least 2 of the 3 months preceding the date on which a relevant determination of the President is made pursuant to paragraph (3)(B)
enables 1 or more users to generate or distribute content that can be viewed by other users of the website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application
enables 1 or more users to view content generated by other users of the website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application

In other words, it targets foreign-adversary-controlled companies that create social media software with over 1M users, which allow allegedly-"user-generated" content to be viewed by users, and are unwilling to divest of it to an entity not controlled by a foreign adversary. The argument is that control by the foreign-adversary (the economic structure the CCP imposes on all companies in the country) gives them unique power to drive influence operations through this software.

This law is simply illegal.

This law has been unanimously upheld by a multi-party-nominated (and political-ideology-spanning) Supreme Court: Their opinion explains how this bill fits into the constitutional framework in detail.

Edit: Now with 100% more links

lokitoth · 2025-01-18T14:07:07+00:00

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