People keep saying social media but I think it's also the fact that young adults are poorer than ever before due to debilitating college costs that are necessary to secure even an entry level job, exorbitant prices for low quality apartments in the city and the fact that wages have not changed for inflation and in many cases have gotten lower. Knowing your life is likely going to be screwed over by people who will then turn around and call you lazy and entitled for complaining about the policy decisions they made probably doesn't give people much of a will to live.

Good luck on that passing.

I hope they have to kick out 75%+ of the blizzcon audience and it's just a massive protest outside.

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Keep digging that hole blizz

I wrote this in the same thread that got removed, but here it is:

The Trio are a team from American University (AU) and one of the members, Casey Chambers, tweeted with screenshots of the ban email from Blizzard:

Happy to announce the AU Hearthstone team received a six month ban from competition. While delayed I appreciate all players being treated equally and no one being above the rules.

Chambers also replied to a twitter comment (“every voice matters, however.....”) regarding the ban:

Nah bro. This one was pretty cut and dry. We knew what we were doing and expected the punishment. The problem was Blizzard ignoring our protest for PR reasons but going after Blitzchung.

Stop playing hearthstone.....that's a stronger message by a country mile. If all you players went on strike. so to speak. Blizzard would perhaps be forced to realign its policies......goodluck with that though.

Anyone remember like a decade ago there were weird shadow vigilante groups that doxxed people involved with CP and reported them to the FBI? Did that stuff actually happen, or was I just a sensationalist kid?

approximately 7.5 terabytes of child pornography videos, the largest of its kind: that’s more than 10,000 CDs full of imagery that are no longer in the hands of child pornographers. The images, which are being analyzed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), contained over 250,000 unique videos; 45% of the videos contain images that have not been previously known to exist.

Holy shit.

Good job IRS. I’ll remember this when I’m filing my taxes.

The article says that 10,000 CDs worth of porn is no longer in the criminal’s hands. Wouldn’t there be other criminals in possession of this content due to the nature of digital media?

Shame about the emotional trauma that occurred; would this be considered damage control or prevention of future crimes? Both?

Poor kids :(

To fund the venture, Lared launched a Gofundme with a goal of $20,000; the project raised nearly $43k before donations were disabled.

Who disabled donations? Lared or GFM? If it was GFM I'd like to hear their explanation as to why donations were disabled.

The tshirts are a great idea. What would be really more impactful is nobody show up for their games.