The current government strategy of illegal use of copyrighted materials, often with the full understanding that the artist/IP owners will not consent to it should really have a harsher punishment to it. The DHS social media pages in particular keep using songs without artist permission because they know it will be taken down but by that point it doesn’t matter and they just steal another song. Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist, this should absolutely count as the rights of the artists to free speech are being infringed upon.
US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment
Submitted 11 hours ago by CubitOom@infosec.pub to games@lemmy.world
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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
UsedLinuxDealer@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
Homelander-ass post
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Microsoft declines to comment
More like ‘Microsoft approves of this imagery’
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 13 minutes ago
I understand your outrage but silence is not consent. It is fear. Apply that phrase to any other situation where consent is required and that would be considered victim blaming.
Now M$ COULD be fine with this, we truly don’t know, but they could also be afraid of how the administration would retaliate against them if they spoke up. I do agree with you when you say these companies are cowardly.
KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Master Queef
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it’s also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and “cockroaches” in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the “other” so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government’s messaging was not subtle.
You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to “destroy” immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that “Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter.”
Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer
Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 9 minutes ago
Also if Trump is any Halo character, he’s the Prophet of Truth
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 45 minutes ago
Donald J Trumps Mjolnir armor would require a XXL waste system.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
Kinda out of topic, but why do all of those AI images have those yellowed filters?
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 2 minutes ago
Same question. It’s weird and instantly recognizable. I guess training data but I have never seen a real explanation about that.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m sure if Satya Nadal were to become a target of ICE he’d have a comment.
Dlayknee@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
But that would never happen because, you know, money.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I don’t think so. It’s unlikely, but not implausible. I don’t think ICE have a list of “don’t arrest” people, and not everyone knows what every CEO looks like. They might run into him randomly and just act on it.
I don’t think Satya Nadal is going out in public like regular people, but it could still happen.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Lmao that fat fuck could not fit in that suit.
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
…So you separate children from their parents at the age of six and abuse them? Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Instead of Mexican Joker we’ll have Mexican Chief
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 hour ago
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 10 hours ago
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Flooding the zone too stronk
Taco2112@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
whenever theytry to make Pvt Bonespurs look “manly” it always looks so sad and desperate
frunch@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It serves nicely as an opportunity to remind onlookers that Trump avoided military service using his supposed ‘bone spurs’ as a reason he was unfit, though. Nothing like reminding these idiots that their tough guy is that tough
BigBenis@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Microsoft are a bunch of pussies also release the Epstein files!
rafoix@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
How many Microsoft executives are on the Epstein files?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Gates is on it for sure, i believe melinda split over something similar. and his shitck of trying to reinvent his own image, so the epstein files dont bite him in the end.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
They said Microsoft executives though, which Gates is not.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
~~Microsoft declined to comment ~~ Microsoft was completely OK with this
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
of course they are. they aid genocide abroad, why wouldn’t they do it at home too?
Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 hours ago
They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
The Covenant might be religious fanatics but they’re actually capable of working with other religious fanatics, in mutual cooperation.
MAGAs are more like Species 8472, utterly hostile to anything that doesn’t conform to their very narrow and ill informed worldview, even to the point of being hostile to potential allies, thus alienating them.
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Nah. They showed the capacity to change and grow from their experiences and interactions.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Also the SPARTAN program was pretty fucked, so this just looks bad in every way IMO.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
He would probably approve of their crimes against children.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).
Crime isn’t only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature consideration) is also criminal activity.
They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
It’s another form of kissing the ring. They know it’s bad for business but there’s the implied threat that if they retaliate he could use the FCC to grind the company to a hault.
So it’s a way of reminding them of their loyalty, probably because it’s about to be tested much harder in the future.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 hour ago
Considering how dependent on M$ servers and products the 'murican government is, Microsoft could easily push for a MAD standoff against them
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck. I have SOOOOOO MUCH SHIT BLOCKED and I still have to see this invasive fucking shit fucking EVERYWHERE IN FUCKING LEMMY. fuck you fuck everyone fuck all this endless fucking fellatio you give this fucking twat. Just shut the fuck up and stop sharing the images and name and giving it attention. Holy fucking shit it’s god damn inescapable.
Get so fucking fucked fucking assholes!!!
Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Then don’t click on it, asshole! There is plenty of shit on here that I don’t care about, but I don’t bitch about it. I just scroll on.
Fuck you!
_stranger_@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s piss colored, and that makes it accurate.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
lmao they didn’t even try to color correct the piss filter
thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 8 hours ago
I would threaten to not buy any more Halo games but I haven’t bought one in like a decade so I recognize there’s not much bite there.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Oh my god, theyre gonna activate the ring!
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 14 minutes ago
There is still time to stop the key from turning.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Come to think of it, the Covenant have a lot in common with American brand millennial Evangelists. Leaning really hard on immanentising the eschaton.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
We do have to hold Microsoft to a very slightly different standard, because they’re a Military Contractor. They’re not going to risk hundreds of billions of dollars to take a stance and make a statement. In that sense, this should not surprise anybody.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No, we really don’t have to hold them in a different standard. It makes sense they are kowtowing to the fascist regime though
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
Yes my entire point is that what they’re doing makes sense. It would actually be strange if the did anything differently given their position.
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 hours ago
Fuck that shit. Standards are called standards for a reason. MS can eat shit or comment.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Lawsuit incoming…?
Tm12@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
From who? They funded the Epstein Ballroom.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Microsoft declining to comment may as well be a confession that they gave this shit the go-ahead
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t know what’s worse, that Microsoft may have given them the go-ahead or that they did it knowing Microsoft would be too scared to say something.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Probably. Trump will probably sue Microsoft for stealing his battle suit for video games.
Kennystillalive@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Whenever you think the Turd Reich can’t get more stupid and ridiculous they actually go and do it.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Reminds me of this…
fox2263@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The Master Chief needs to finish the fight. Fuck up the (Trump) covenant
Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Damn, now I want a mod that replaces all Covenant enemies with these fascists, and replace all their voice lines with actual quotes they’ve said.
You could do Stephen Miller for the Prophets, Trump for the Elites, and maybe Alex Jones or something for the Grunts.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The suit is jacking him off
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This is why while I love 40k, I have mixed feelings about there ever being a mainstream movie/show about it. I can already imagine MAGA wearing shirts saying “Purge the xeno scum”
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Guaranteed, he’s going to count the Console Wars in his list of wars he’s ended.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
… Did they not realize that the UNSC is an authoritarian fascist organization, and the Spartan program was originally aimed at fighting “rebels” who wanted to have control over the planets they lived on?
Literally the MC was kidnapped and experimented on to become a killing machine for the military junta for the express purpose of murdering colonists. No pay, no benefits, no end of contract.