EVE General Discussion

You're right, but i'm not sure which of those apply to said giff. (pretty sure i know the one he's talking about)
We're also basing this around that children would see it, my point was they shouldent be playing in order to see stuff (legal or not) that get's posted.

This could easily get you a forumban, mate...

Reminds me of every Autumn growing up when I'd go deer hunting.

So we do agreee, that this might not be posted ingame. Especially since ima vegetarian i am quiet offended.
I hope you agree that such gifs should be baned from the game and the posters with them.

No worries. Reported.

You don't understand the actual issue.

To make people stop posting such .gifs, ALL linking to gifs needs to be eliminated.
That's basically what you're asking for.

If CCP eliminated the ability to link any gifs, then NO gif at all can be linked anymore,
even the good ones, which are the majority.

How can i tell they are the majority ? Because most people don't post crap.

The issue here is, that when CCP eliminates the linking of gifs because of crappy ones,
they give in to those who link them. It means, we all are potential sickos that could link such gifs,
which is completely whack.

Every time something is censored because of a minority, it just shows that
whoever is in control gives in to the minority, slowly turning everybody into said minority.
It evolves into a paranoid mindset, which is a bad thing.

Furthermore, it means that the minority can hold the controlling instance hostage !

You KNOW (you do !) that there are people out there who would love doing that.

They'll just keep doing **** until everything is censored so nobody can speak freely anymore,
because everybody risks of saying/doing something that somebody else finds offensive !

If you think that through, you'll see that censorship is a bad thing to happen.


Children don't need to be saved, they need to be watched out for and cared for.

Children with parents who fail at doing that have far greater problems than looking at said gifs.

Of course there are children who might accidentially look at such gifs,
but if you believe that - because of a minority - things should get censored,
then you don't understand censorship and it's consequences at all.

**** happens ... that's life ... and it worked great for most of our history.
Only "recently" people started whining more and more about things they find offensive,
(and getting their will too!)
as if it was the other parties fault that they can't deal with reality.

You haven't been shown anything obscene or frankly that mortifying. The .gif in question doesn't really offend because it is not showing context. There is a mass difference in the general public's acceptability of that offending .gif in question and an actual context of cruelty going on. The .gif in question barely pushes into "gore" if you're talking about implementing the censorship of certain genres of content.

Everything that you are advocating as unacceptable has not been seen by you or the vast majority of players on public channels, simply because what you are advocating already exists.

First they came for our fleetporn.


Now they come for the rest of our gifs.

Ok i see your point and it is valid. I will easily sacrifice myself to watch all those gifs. and report people who post them. Lesson learned. I see your point and you are right. But give me that those people would have only ONE opportunity to post that stuff.
Freedom of speech is a really big thing that we all have to fight for. Especially on the internet. But abusing that has to have consequences.
I was subbing anything against sopa and all those limitations as well. I am actively fighting against internet censorship. :-)

Look i am not dumb. I saw something that i didn't like and complained. I asked for removing gifs. You showed me the consequenses and i recognized them. I tried to do an agreement where both are happy. Thats how intelligent people solve problems. :-)