LULZ Posts

It’s no secret — social justice activists in the gaming community form brigades to pressure gaming studios into firing employees that they deem guilty of wrongthink. All it takes is one bad tweet, one errant comment, a dismissive gesture, or a harmless joke to trigger a crusade to ruin the…

“On a platform as open and diverse as Reddit, there will sometimes be communities that, while not prohibited by the Content Policy, average redditors may nevertheless find highly offensive or upsetting,” reads the September 27 announcement by Reddit administrator landoflobsters. In it, he explains that policies on “quarantining” subreddits have…

Update (September 24): new response from Richard M. Stallman, and Eric S. Raymond (ESR) says the license revocation “threat has teeth.” Linux powers the internet, the Android in your pocket, and perhaps even some of your household appliances. A controversy over politics is now seeing some of its developers threatening…

Prominent liberal thought leader and filmmaker Tariq Nasheed has a unique take on Hurricane Florence: white rescue crews, triggered by a racist hand signal sent over the TV, are secretly rounding up and killing black people during disasters. Archive: http://archive.is/xmd6z The theory was laid out in a Sep 16 thread…

This open letter about the consequences of the #MeToo movement was posted to LinkedIn on June 11th — archive: https://archive.fo/y3dQi — and quickly went viral. An outrage campaign, helped in no small part by journalists, got it deleted. We bring it back from the dead. Congratulations #Metoo…You’ve Made Women Employees…

A Swedish woman upset by ISIS news posted the “How to make a muslim” meme to a Facebook group in spring of 2017, and now she’s facing up to two years imprisonment. The person who reported her to the authorities — he or she is identified only as “Johan Erikson”…

UPDATE: Interesting new twist to this story, which appears to have backfired on the subreddit. Updates posted in bold text down below. Revenge porn just took on a new meaning. Subreddit /r/aznidentity has successfully crowdfunded and produced a custom Asian Male-White Female (AM/WF) porn shoot to strike back at 4chan…

Racism has plagued humanity forever, or at least since we came across neanderthals in some god-awful primeval forest 60,000 years ago and promptly wiped them out for looking different. It maims, it hurts, it kills. And when the YouTube comment section is one long whitesplaining diarrhea streak derailing the vital…