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People can feel free to stop telling me that the issue of pornography and guns are different now.

In regards to the collapse of Section 230, have fun reading the new Microsoft service agreement and weep:

Section 3, iV:
Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity).

This includes such services as Skype, but many others.

Under flag of "morality and decency", along with utter hostility to the concept of personal autonomy and your body being inviolable, the dystopianly titled "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" has blown another hole in the dying concept of freedom of speech and information via the internet.


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Microsoft Services Agreement

a. When you share Your Content with other people, you understand that they may be able to, on a worldwide basis, use, save, record, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, share and display (and on HealthVault delete) Your Content without compensating you. If you do not want others to have that ability, do not use the Services to share Your Content.

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The Inked Anarchist

Microsoft attempting to become Apple with its wantonly Draconian rules over the end user.

Anonymous

Ah well, back to Linux based stuff.

TheOlsonOutfit

Offensive language: can't get much more broad than that.

Chad Falatic

Not sure how this affects firearms discussion.

Anonymous

I was playing Xbox when 2 players killed me while on their team (against the rules) so I got pissed and sent a message in chat with ONE bad word. They were cowards and reported me over it so I got 3 MONTHS of ban from chat in Xbox... That's just dumb... So many companies have started being so overly sensitive...

Anonymous

Karl, I love your use of language, your posts are very well written and semantically entertaining. Please keep it up. And thanks for keeping this news flowing, because I wouldn't know otherwise. Cheers

Brandon T

Hey Microsoft: fuck shit fuck asshole. Have at me.

Scott

Count down until discussion of Microsoft competitors counts as "offensive language".

Bryan Sportel

Do I go before you or after you in the bread line Karl?

Anonymous

When i was playing really heavily just after college my rep on Xbox Live was pretty poor. Something like 70% unsportsmanlike. Almost always played with a group of 5 friends with group chat only. Noone heard us talk we just worked well together. People get butthurt over such minor things.

Anonymous

Facebook did that with Tsu. It was a social network that paid you a portion of the ad revenue you generated with your posts.

Anonymous

George Orwell was only off by 35 or 40 years. We are right on script.

alphawhiskey

What Microsoft product are we discussing here?

Anonymous

So who decides what's offensive? I think "socialism" and "blended scotch" are offensive words, are they banned? I thought not, fuck Microsoft. I'm glad a don't pay for their software

Anonymous

There is a link to a list if you click on the agreement above Karl's post. It includes anything and everything MS produces. Skype, Office 365, Windows Photo Gallery, OneDrive... If you use MS Word or Outlook to type language MS deems offensive and then share it with others you are in violation of the service agreement. If you use OneDrive to store documents they deem offensive or nude photos of anyone, including something as innocuous as your spouse or significant other you are in violation of the agreement.

James Healy

InRange is not just a channel about firearms, they have always covered multiple topics including digital rights.

Anonymous

Be wary if you are in the UK, they might send MI6 over to haul you out and imprison you for a hate crime if you win too much in Counter Strike against the terrorists now.

James Caldwell

We're the government and we're here to help...Digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that Microsoft’s hard-line policy stems from Congress passing two new sex trafficking bills. The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act (SESTA) holds platforms responsible for users’ speech, illegally shared content, and anything connected to sex trafficking. EFF claims SESTA/FOSTA “silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users.” The Department of Justice has also warned that the bills raise “serious constitutional concern.”

Anonymous

I work for Microsoft so I am interested to see how this all plays out at my work. We use programs such as Skype, so I'll be curious if they enforce it on us. I think people would be surprised the number of pro 2A folks who work at MS. Not everyone who works for them is an SJW.

Andy

The immediate issue now becomes corporate espionage. Anything on the cloud or spoken on Skype is now being scanned "for compliance reasons" and this means all new ideas are now open season. Internet 3.0 sure is shaping up to be a real downer.

Anonymous

I'll be honest. My response was, "The fuck" When I read that. I mean does this mean they are going to censor movies too? You do that to some, like the Boondock Saints, well it might as well be a silent movie. I swear, we are 3 degrees from Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. And, I never thought I'd see the day.

Anonymous

This is world wide. Lauren Southern and Brittney Pettibone banned from the UK because each, in their own way, tried to speak up for free speach. In Canada there are laws making certain speach mandatory.

Anonymous

Don't use anything Ms(Linux Android, however very deep into Google (drive, sheets)

Anonymous

I'm less a fan of the ambiguity of part 3, section a, iv. a. By agreeing to these Terms, you’re agreeing that, when using the Services, you will follow these rules. iv. Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity)

Anonymous

According to these rules more than half of videogames avable on Microsoft platforms would not cut it; with graphic violence, offensive language, nudity and criminality and all. Are they doing April's Fool early?!

Anonymous

I'm happy to see InRange taking up the charge to talk about 1st and 4th amendment rights.

Anonymous

The version of SESTA that they passed was an amended version that requires hosts to KNOWINGLY condone or conspire to engage in sex trafficking which is a significant difference from the original legislation that everyone fought wherein the simple fact that such activity happened on your platform made you liable. This version is far less odious than the original version. See: <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865</a>

Anonymous

Discord was already doing this as a part of their Terms and Conditions. Effectively anything posted on or communicated through Discord was subject to a claim by Discord that such communication or IP was property of Discord and not the person sending or receiving it. Put another way, anything you put on Discord no longer belongs to either the sender or receiver and instead belongs to Discord and by agreeing to the Terms and Conditions you concede that point. This effectively implies that they can and will scan all content for anything they might want to claim more directly and/or monetize.

Anonymous

The version of SESTA that they passed was an amended version that requires hosts to KNOWINGLY condone or conspire to engage in sex trafficking which is a significant difference from the original legislation that everyone fought wherein the simple fact that such activity happened on your platform made you liable. This version is far less odious than the original version. See: <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865</a>

Anonymous

Don't forget, the judge said that 'context is irrelevant' thus just you saying the phrase 'hate crime' could be used as evidence that you yourself have committed one.

Bill Smithem

So, ANY service which performs any sort of mediation of their content can be construed to have knowingly allowed content they missed in their mediation. This is enough to make this version just as odious as the original. Do you actually believe they will take the risk of having to defend themselves in lawsuits or just ban everything in sight that might trigger one?

Anonymous

You know, it's kind of hard to believe, but we might be seeing the end of the golden era of the internet. Remember when you could find anything on the internet? Well, you kind of can now, but with considerably more viruses and spyware. We might see the end of a truly free and uncensored internet in the next few years. I'm not sure how to stop it.

CavScout

Not sure whether I think these book burning, speech banning socialists will win or not...

Eero af Heurlin

If it was only the "socialists" it wouldn't go through. On a second note, how come "you" (the US) allow the laws to be named (or aliased) like this ? Isn't it obvious that it leads to very bad laws being passed because no politician can afford to vote against something like the "PATRIOT act" or "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" regardless of the merits since the opponents and media are going to have a field day of mud slinging on that. So could someone get a law in the books that allows referring to laws only by some registration number to avoid all this appeal to emotion

Anonymous

You, and others, say that the P365 is "unprecedented". This is not true. The Kel Tec P11 is approximately the same size, also, 1" wide, 14 ounces and has a 10 round flush fit magazine. Additionally, Kel Tec offers a 12 round flush fit magazine. This makes it the same size as the P365 but with 2 additional rounds. Sig also offers a 12 round magazine, but it is not flush fit it is an extended magazine. If you like this approach, the P11 accepts older S&amp;W 15 round magazines, as well.

Anonymous

I forgot to mention, but the trigger on the Sig is much better, while the trigger on the P11 is poor. It can be improved, though. I looked up prices and find that you can get a P11 and a set of night sights for about $400. So, saying that is unprecedented is misleading, at best. A p11 with night sights and the available 12 round magazine can be had. The Sig is not in a category of 1. There are other options.

Anonymous

I have followed you here from YouTube, but I don't see this as a viable long-term solution for you or me. I have 100 plus gun channels subscriptions on YouTube. I good number of them are moving to other sites already so say 50 rehost here. 50 X $12. No, it is not remotely feasible for me to contribute to them all. Moreover, it appears I have to know you are here to find you. How can you grow? Not because people are finding you here because they can’t even watch your videos to decide if they like your content until they pay. I predict a fast death by obscurity on this site. It is a shame. Surely something better exists?

Anonymous

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