Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'
Submitted 1 month ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 1 month ago
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
On one hand, the technology exists, sure.
On the other hand, arguing that everyone should have easy, free access to child porn is not the “good look” he think it is. I wonder why people regularly shit on him.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Hmmm. I think I won’t be reinstaling the Epic Games Store app on my gaming PC any time soon. (My old drive failed December of '23…) I’m only playing two games anyhow - Horizon Zero Dawn and No Man’s Sky and both I got through GOG.
NGL, I only tried the Epic Store to get Bioshock on one of their free giveaways… and it turned out to be a bit much.
Really not into body horror games… Or people that make excuses for maintaining platforms that enable the creation, and distribution, of CSAM.
See ya later, Tim.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
never had an epic account. never will.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It’s astonishing how arrogant and stupid this guy is. Surely he’d notice that this is a great argument against having large centralized services, right? Does he think Twitter is the only Microblogging thing on the net?
Atropos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anyone have a script that just repeatedly downloads and then uninstalls my epic library?
meathappening@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Absolute L take from the undisputed king of L takes.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 1 month ago
… 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 1 month 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.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
My god, the outspoke 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!
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
Asbestos. Lead. Microplastics.
They’re not to blame directly, but they’re letting their shit thoughts run wild.
phx@lemmy.world 1 month 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
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
De man say yez but he might mean no
shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I knew I had a reason to hate Tim and Epic games. I’m glad I never took their bribes of free games and installed their store
Draegur@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
…
oooooookayyyyyyyy.
billionaires, man: they not like us ._.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.
Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You are based for stanning gog and thus are absolved <3
I love their zero tolerance for DRM so much
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month 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.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do these people have kids, wives? Why not get Grok to generate some nudes of their families and see how they feel about that.
Haaveilija@lemmy.world 1 month ago
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“We’re just gonna watch the enemy destroy us”
Yoz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They will not care. When you reach that level then it doesn’t matter what working class talks about.
Leather@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Classic Epic response!
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
earlstilt@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Is the image Grok’s representation of what a pedophile might look like?
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nah, Grok isn’t that accurate.
dumbass@piefed.social 1 month ago
Yeah, I’d like to censor tho pedophile politicians, with my rpg censor.
lengau@midwest.social 1 month ago
Tim Sweeney has a shitty take? Must be a day ending in Y!
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every accusation is a confession. Tech CEOs are filthy scum.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought “gatekeeping” was a good thing, to keep fandom spaces “safe from normies”, so big corporations will only make stuff for “real, hardcore fans”.
KiloGex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m fine with all of these CEOs giving me even more reasons to not support AAA companies and give my money to indies.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Communities have values and standards. Those fat cats and their systems of extracting capital have been chipping away at that for decades. Shame used to be a thing. No values. No standards, No shame.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I have a feeling that after this all dies down 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.
treesquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This fuckhead as the head of a gaming company, what a fucking joke. This loser has never had fun in his life
arararagi@ani.social 1 month ago
Also he’s wrong, this isn’t the first rodeo of AI producing CSAM, when people discovered stable diffusion could do it they made the filters a lot better on the XL version, but Musk doesn’t give a fuck.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m so sick and tired of the self-evident stupidity of free speech absolutism.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What kind of fucking dope he’s on?
Naevermix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know why but these people want to normalize pedophilia.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Well… The obvious answer is that they’re pedophiles. Why they would want to telegraph that to everyone I can’t say.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Found the pedo!
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s even got the glasses…