Re:China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more...
by UnFleshedOne on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:55PM
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That 1%, if they are loud enough, can move overton window for the whole society. Recall how fast vaccine passports moved from a crazy right wing conspiracy theory to an obvious and necessary measure. Last year is full of such examples.
Re:China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more...
by 1270018080 on Monday August 30, 2021 @04:11PM
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I think you have it backwards. In the last year, vaccines passports (in other words, immunization records) went from an obvious and necessary measure to a crazy wight wing conspiracy theory.
Re:China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more...
by honkdaddy on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:05PM
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A year ago in my country, vaccine passports were very much a conspiracy theory, and back in 2020, our PM assured us they wouldn't be coming. [1] A year later, as the GP mentioned, this has instead become the standard to expect going forward. [2]. Exactly what they described has happened, something which was once considered an irrational fear of libertarians has become reality.
[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/7576955/coronavirus-vaccine-passp...
[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/8104692/canada-getting-proof-of-v...
Half of the US is up in arms about it, for better or worse. I think you'd have a hard time imposing anything on the US.
The other half doesn't think immunizations are authoritarian, just science.
Maybe 1% of the loud and attention grabbing people on either side of the isle wants to impose things on the other just for the sake of imposing them.
So not exactly.