They did! I’m curious about the overlap between retro-gaming enthusiasts and fascists though. Do fascists really care about art and its preservation?
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Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Didn’t Italy elect a far right neo-fascist government?
Hopefully gamers take notes.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 day ago
st3ph3n@midwest.social 1 day ago
They’re notorious book burners, so I imagine not.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Fascists care about setting precedent and “purchased vaguely illegal content” is some great precedent.
This just also is a smart attack because the usual crowd is going to come out to insist that it is OWN’s fault for playing Nintendo games and piracy is the greatest problem facing the world and that Nintendo Switch Online™ is a great service.
Its the same as when the christofacists attacked Pornhub via Visa et al in the US. Everyone hates revenge porn and child porn (well, except for certain heads of state…) so nobody is going to complain but it made it very clear the path to destroy content that goes against the fascists’ interests.
paranoid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Italy has always been a bit odd - I remember a group of scientists were convicted of manslaughter because they didn’t predict an earthquake that killed a few hundred people.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Dude. That happened way back in ...2009!
Whatthefuck is wrong with people? At least it got overturned.
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 1 day ago
uh, wow, I hadn’t heard of this. What an absolutely wild conviction.
Initial conviction: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626
(spoilers) overturned on appeal: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29996872
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
What about that American college girl whose roommate died and they accused her of murdering her in a satanic ritual which all turned out to be made up by the Italian prosecution?