I think the discussion about "common carrier" elsewhere in the comments misses the point. Social media platforms do not wish to be merely common carriers because a common carrier only transports messages by others and what they want to do is both monitor and control which messages reach specific users because they make money selling information about their users and delivering targeted advertising.

It is the secret, proprietary algorithms of Google, Twitter, facebook, et al. which are the problem here. The social media platforms are not merely common carrier if they are actively pushing certain messages whether for financial gain or ideological purposes. At a certain point we might consider them the author of the content they decide (or calculate) to push. We cannot know if the murderers in this case were fed hateful "instructions" by a YouTube algorithm or not but if they were then that is a problem that should be addressed, certainly.

With a whole generation growing up with these video games and slowly getting into positions of power, it's simply no longer an issue. Almost all of us has played a violent video game at some point.

LOL

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Wonderful, now I feel 'young' again :-)

I think there's something to be said for low UIDs :-)

It's clear that they have no intention of backing down or addressing user concerns. The only question now is, what site will we all move to after Beta stops being optional?

I'm doing the Slashcott, too, but I don't have any delusions that it'll get them to adopt the only course of action that would be acceptable: abandon the Beta site, keep "classic" Slashdot, issue an apology, and never try this shit again.

Dice doesn't care. They bought Slashdot for the name and the traffic. They'll end up ruining the former and driving away the latter.

You're competing against people (mostly men) who ARE willing to do these things.