I have the sneaking suspicion that in private the guy agrees with some very nasty political views.
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 20 hours ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Katzelle3@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
arin@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
He’s probably in the Epstein files
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
And has generated some very nasty AI images.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
As an old ass gamer who is fond of Unreal Tournament, I sure hate what Epic has become.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
For where they are today, they got rid of UT so it wouldn’t compete with fornite. So I don’t even give them any positive thoughts for that legacy.
Also iirc it was one of the few games that targetted linux compatibility back in the day, but epic has more recently taken a “fuck linux” stance and from what I understand deliberately prevents it running on linux via proton (“from what I understand” because it might just be the kernel level anti-cheat bs, but iirc he’s said things like all linux users are just trying to cheat). So he can keep his free games and while I would like to see someone actually compete with Valve, I hope some fortnite players wake up and stop spending money on dumb mtx shit so epic goes under.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 11 hours ago
At first I was kinda issues that they turned their backs on the unreal franchise in such a disrespectful way.
But at this point that feels right. Current Epic doesn’t deserve to be associated with Unreal.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Why do people keep quoting this guy? His whole gimmick is saying asshole things to stay in the media. Just stop talking to losers like him and they go away.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I dunno, letting the him stay in the media for saying pedophole comments seems like a reasonable thing to do, least someone might not know what his stance is.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
He does know that Xitter is already, actually and literally, censoring their political opposition right?
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
That was pretty much the whole project, right?
boogiebored@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yes and it is still isn’t fair to the right wing and the synonymous .1% wealthy class. He is being explicit.
echodot@feddit.uk 7 hours 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.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Thats how little they think of women and children. Respect is something foreign to them
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Yet another reason not to use the Epic Games Store.
scarabic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Haven’t touched that pile of shit in years.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
anyone do a search for him on Epstein airlines?
rekabis@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
…The fuck?
Is Tim Sweeney legitimately outing himself as a pedophile? Does the Parasite Class really feel so comfortable and immune from consequences that they can openly advocate for pedophilia?
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They’re under the protection of the POTUS. Yes, they feel immune to consequences.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
probably, he could well be associated with files.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Look at that dude, even on pedophile island he’s not getting an invite. Not saying he isn’t into kids, just that all the other pedos probably picked on him.
Rhoeri@piefed.world 15 hours ago
Aaaaaand…. Boycotted.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I have boycotted them since their stupid launcher that was nothing but greed, and also when Idle it ate up like half my ram
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors…
good for him i guess, but why is this news?
…is just ‘gatekeepers’ attempting to ‘censor all of their political opponents’
ah of course, makes sense now.
KiloGex@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 12 hours 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
Itisreallyboring@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
And my Epic Account is deleted.
arararagi@ani.social 9 hours 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.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Wow. I already thought of Sweeny as scum but I didn’t know he was nazi pedophile scum. So long Epic.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
Oh dear, Tim. I guess you just told us your future.
Decq@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Jesus this guy really always finds a way to dig deeper in the abyss doesn’t he? Why does anyone even listen to him anymore?
echodot@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
I honestly don’t think anyone does listen to him. He’s just shouting into the void at this point.
I would be genuinely interested how many industry professionals actually bothered to subscribe to him vs other studio bosses. I’ve never heard of him post anything industry related, it’s always just ranting like this.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 16 hours 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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’m so sick and tired of the self-evident stupidity of free speech absolutism.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 hours 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.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 19 hours ago
Holy shit. I honestly can't believe people are willing to actually openly support that shit.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 17 hours ago
Umprompted too. It’s not like he’s been interrogated by, say, Nick Frost.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 17 hours ago
Seriously. It's genuinely making me worry about the few past interactions I had with him as the guy who created Jill of the Jungle and ZZT. Like, what might have happened if me or any of the other kids at the computer show were alone with him? What might he have done when no one was watching?
Atropos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Anyone have a script that just repeatedly downloads and then uninstalls my epic library?
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
never had an epic account. never will.
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 19 hours ago
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 15 hours 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 12 hours ago
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“We’re just gonna watch the enemy destroy us”
Yoz@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They will not care. When you reach that level then it doesn’t matter what working class talks about.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 20 hours 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.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
What kind of fucking dope he’s on?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 19 hours 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?
motruck@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Stop listening or giving CEOs a place to spread their rhetoric. They have one goal in mind and it has nothing to do with making the world better.