Peter Thiel is a major backer of Brave. Additionally, Brave has done other scummy things, like injecting their own referral IDs on some pages and trading user user privacy for money by unblocking trackers from companies that pay them.
I believed the same things... in around 2014. By internet standards, that's an absolutely ancient perspective, and absolutely untrue these days. My main browser is Floorp, a Firefox fork, and I've found a total of one website that actually doesn't work, which was just a huge directory listing.
In most cases, Spider-Man has no natural webs, and instead uses web shooters and a special web fluid he invented. That said, in pretty much every case, he also has fairly extreme super strength, to the point that it's revealed within the comics that he's almost always holding back.
Over and over again, calls for violence, encouraging suicide, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and when you get called out on your bullshit it's "Well I never! How dare you!"
Thank you for confirming you were referring to me when you made those heinous lies before.
You want a mod to treat you fairly? Don't be an asshole.
Yeah, not how it works. You know what it's called when police, government officials, and people with actual power behave like this? A crime. You literally just described abuse of power, the exact thing this community is designed to draw attention to.
Funny, modlog says different.
You have multiple accounts with removals and bans for cause.
If you actually put any thought or action into anything you ever did here, you would know how absolutely bullshit your statements here are.
First off, yes, I have multiple accounts. Four, in fact. If you paid attention, you would realize that two of those were on instances that shut down. But no, you have to try and imply that I burned accounts and moved on because of all my bans or whatever. A clear sign of someone with a quality argument founded in facts, right?
Let's go on and look at those "for cause" removals and bans, shall we?
I called someone out for being a bigot in a thread about Nexus Mods removing hateful mods (a look at your future?). The entire comment chain was blanket removed.
I received a three day ban from Lemmyshitpost almost two years ago for "incivility." Amongst my removed comments were maybe two I would admit we're uncivil. Otherwise, they were a comment about a sudden influx of a specific type of comment and voting being similar to nonewnormal brigades from back on Reddit, asking a user of their antagonistic behavior is really intended to influence people, and calling them out for trolling when they informed me they were just there to bitch. I was banned with zero warning, and as far as I can tell, only people on one side of the argument got these blanket removals. Very "for cause," huh?
That's the entirety of my first account and an entire year on the service. Two events total. After the shutdown of LemmyOnline, I moved on to FMHY. I noticed you didn't link that one. Maybe it's because there were no mod actions there? Well, that doesn't fit your narrative, so let's ignore it.
Let's move on to this account, shall we?
An argument about the privacy of people in dangerous situations that became mildly uncivil. I was of the position that a service collecting phone numbers and releasing them to the police could endanger people already in dangerous situations. Fuck me, right? I'm so evil. The entire thread was removed, not just my comments.
I was banned from Lefty Memes for calling out the harmful behavior of a certain mod who was recently also in this community. In the recent instance, another mod stepped in and agreed that, yes, that particular mod has overstepped. I'm proud of that one. The only major mod action I've ever had, and it was for a good reason.
Four months ago, I had two comments removed. Once again, these comments were made standing against transphobia and bigotry, as opposed to your narrative. This removal wasn't even an action against me, the bigot made an off-ropic thread which got removed.
Two months ago, I had a comment removed where I responded to someone parroting MAGA talking point quite rudely. I made some personal attacks that are about half as bad as the ones you've made in this thread. The removal message was simple, "attack the argument, not the person." I took the advice and made a new comment which is still up.
That's it. That's everything. You sit here, acting like anyone who's ever had a single mod action against them is a hateful bigot transphobe, and you cite the smallest matters, even one that prove the exact opposite, as if they're all you need. You don't even understand your own argument, but you keep making it.
To you, bigotry is clearly nothing but a weapon. Something you can wield against anyone who disagrees with you, screeching "Bigot! Bigot!" any time someone dares to call you out on your bullshit. It doesn't matter to you. None of it. Bigotry, transphobia , homophobia, it's all just a flimsy justification for your behavior to you.
I'm done engaging with you, your behavior has been nothing but revolting.
It's absolutely hilarious that you're trying to justify your behavior by describing my modlog, which summarizes a total of four encounters over more than two years, as "as long as your arm."
It's also notably pathetic, and wickedly ironic, since one of those encounters was with a mod who seemed to behave such as yourself, in a particular event involving an incredibly hostile vegan calling everyone cow-fucking rapists. Yeah, apparently that's okay, but asking them if they're a false flag because of how absolutely unhelpful that behavior is towards changing people's minds constitutes incivility.
Of course, it doesn't surprise me you would blindly stand behind any mod action. You honestly seem like the "might makes right" type, regardless of how small your "might" actually is. I'd be willing to bet the only reason you're here trolling like this is because the limit of your power is entirely within communities I've never once participated in.
Oh, and also, don't you dare ever spread such vile fucking lies about me again you piece of shit. I'm going to be directly contacting the administration of your instance about this.
Well, my main concern is the characterization of this as "piracy." It's not like image generating AIs are reproducing their actual films, right? Sure, it could be used to produce similar artwork to comics or stills or something, but it's not gonna recreate the substance of the media. Yet, that's how they've chosen to classify it, and I worry that it could set a precedent that could be used to sort of sidestep fair use protections.
That is the corniest, clowniest, cringiest shit I've ever fucking read, and it's absolutely hysterical that you think posting a pic so old it's actually still called an image macro while modding like a petty child is "ruining" someone.
You're displaying an emotional age that's less than half the age of the image you posted. For your own sake and the sake of everyone around you, please grow up.
She bullied you and threatened you? It means you're an easy mark to her. Someone she knows she can use as she pleases and discard when she no longer has a need.
I'm banned from there for publicly calling out one of the mods for covertly supporting the American right-wing. I deserve the ban, let's be clear, I intentionally went out of my way to spam warnings across the community. That said, the moderation of that comm seems to be getting worse since I was last there.
PTB.
Edit: To be clear, this was the same moderator, who seems to be the head moderator, and in light of this, it now seems clear that they weren't just supporting the American right-wing, but moreso supporting any and all totalitarianism.
Yo indeed, lol. That makes sense.