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[–] greenhulk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Well yes. And “political oponents” are nazis.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they're being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago

Tax those rich snobs

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago

Eat the rich

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago

Check his hard drive. Is he on the lolita flight logs?

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

So he's politicising child abuse material now, and associating it with the political right. He's not entirely incorrect, but it seems like he needs to think before he opens his idiot mouth.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

no, hes saying banning child porn is equivalent to "Censoring" political opponents=right wingers violating TOs.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 44 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You know, if it was anything but Twitter, I could at least have an ounce of sympathy. I remember Tumblr getting a bunch of cheap heat over its active community of furry enthusiasts. Valve cracked down on a bunch of lewd games in their Steam Store, largely out of prudishness. Reddit's been a notorious hub for revenge porn since forever, and its still been considered draconian to blank-ban the whole site.

But pretty much everyone drew the line at CSAM. Hell, 4chan generally drew the line at CSAM. Sites that had virtually no moderation still managed to swing their tiny hammers at CSAM wherever it cropped up.

Twitter seems to have fully embraced this shit with an enthusiasm that can only be described as satanic. Just really, nakedly, unapologetically evil. Maybe Sweeny just doesn't get that, and he's reflexively defending another billionaire from the oppressive hand of Big Government Regulation. Maybe the dude's just a nounce and thinks CSAM is no big deal. Either way, someone needs to rub his nose in it until he gets the picture.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Satan isn't a pedo. There aren't children in hell. These people are worse then Satan.

[–] forkDestroyer 2 points 17 hours ago

There aren’t children in hell.

Law and Order SVU 6.06 begs to differ.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I oppose CSAM and child abuse.

-Tim Sweeny.

HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SAY THAT!

Christ on a stick! Weren't pedo's like the worse of the worse?! When did they start getting a voice in daily regular discourse!

Son of a bitch!

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

Commenting on the very article from the OP, he called the content disgusting.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Not only that, but the side of politics which regularly fantasizes publicly about murdering pedophiles is awful quiet about the fact that the vast majority of offenders come from their ranks.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I kinda wonder.

Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.

Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.

So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?

And to further that, I wonder if there's almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you're in "the group", they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you've been involved with so you can't turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.

Given all the stuff that's happened and turned out to be projection, what's the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?

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[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

He's even got the glasses..

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

... censor all of their political opponents

... ' child pornography?

To be clear: X is the political opponent of anyone who values democracy. As such, it can be fairly said that this IS an attempt to censor my opponents' ... child pornography. I do not object to 'censoring' CSAM. Tim Sweeney thinks child porn is free speech (pcgamer - contact me for rights to this far superior headline). When X was just vile hate speech, propaganda, and misinformation, the free speech argument prevailed. This is not the same.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Even before Grok, the moment Elongated Muskrat took over, reporting actual CSAM become much harder. But yeah, if you value democracy, you want Xitter to be gone.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 12 points 20 hours ago

Tim Sweeney has a shitty take? Must be a day ending in Y!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

My god, the outspoken billionaire pedophile club just keeps growing.

Just can't fucking help themselves.

... though... that... does makes sense, that you would lack self-inhibition... if you were a pedophile.

Hooray clown world!

[–] whitecollarcry@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 18 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I knew him from way back in the good old days of ZZT and epic pinball.

Why do many of these guys end up being goddamn weirdos?

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Asbestos. Lead. Microplastics.

They're not to blame directly, but they're letting their shit thoughts run wild.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

I think it's the other M.

Money.

Money and power.

Once they got those, it's an addiction they'll pursue over anything else

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[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The actual post is even worse. Has the gall to call this, “crony capitalism”…

What about all the ACTUAL OTHER CRONY CAPITALISM HAPPENING

Why did this freak pick THIS of all ongoing issues to get fired up about? Holy shit

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cuz he's one of them. It's how he became CEO. It's how they all become CEO. It isn't rocket science. They're broken freaks.

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I have a feeling that after this is all over there's going to be some kind of McCarthyist search to out all of the pedos in business and politics.

I mean in a sense I hope there will be one in order to rid the world of the pedo cabal, but there are always false positives in such moral panics.

“I like looking at AI generated kiddie porn, actually!”

  • Tim Sweeney
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 38 points 1 day ago

Someone check this man's hard drive.

[–] turbulentMagma@lemmy.zip 82 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This just in: Epic games CEO tim Sweeney is against banning child porn!

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[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

He doesn’t care about user freedom of choice only his own interests and now his mask in falling. He is openly supporting child pornography.

[–] REDACTED 1 points 13 hours ago

Is it just me, or does his surname work perfectly as a slang for small dick?

[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Maybe something happens to this guy. Maybe he retires to a beachfront property.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So apparently AI generated CSAM is political? Interesting.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 146 points 1 day ago (8 children)

All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.

You're an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.

The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.

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[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know why but these people want to normalize pedophilia.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They probably want to normalize it so they can do it in public without any push back. I mean, remember when fElon was getting "Karate" lessons with ~~Jizz Lane~~ Ghislane Maxwell on behalf of Epstein; after all this grok pedo shit and his projection onto that cave diver, there's not a singular doubt in my mind he's a child rapist too just trying to move that overton window.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

it worked for trump, well at least hes using distractions after distraction from the PDF. it is why THIEL is so anti-lgbtq by funding it, because hes been associated with epstein his peference would "F-boys", and his constant effort to stay out of the media.

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[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

This fuckhead as the head of a gaming company, what a fucking joke. This loser has never had fun in his life

[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 359 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Wow. There was just zero reason for him to say anything. Nobody is accusing Fortnite of being unsafe for kids. And he chose to say that. For himself.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 1 day ago

You know Tim Sweeney really could do with having his social media access taken away from him. It's not like he has anything of value to contribute.

He should stick to just announcing Epic releases and otherwise just shut up.

[–] earlstilt@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is the image Grok’s representation of what a pedophile might look like?

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Why do people keep quoting this guy? His whole gimmick is saying asshole things to stay in the media. Just stop talking to losers like him and they go away.

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[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tim Sweeney

"Hey kids, Tim Sweeney here, want to play Fortnite!?!"

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