• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Well, that was one of the instances of abuse of the portal. Another was a mooning, and yet another was a man showing NYC citizens pictures of 9/11 over the portal.

    I assume they never thought that so many people would start being a punk-ass because they think the magical screen makes them safe from all persecution like the one at home. It is trained behavior.

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      6 months ago

      think the magical screen makes them safe from all persecution

      People do this shit face to face all the time. It’s only easier to record like this. Same with the internet. It didn’t make people into assholes. It just made it easier to record.

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        The busy main streets of NYC and Dublin certainly have seen some great and terrible things, but these recordings were all published by nearby peers and not the company. There isn’t much incentive for breaking indecent exposure laws even with the screen, but you can’t pretend it was ever so common.

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      6 months ago

      Do they think NY is censored from 9/11 like China from Tieneman Square?

      Or just they think its going to bother anyone?

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        I think it was one of those things like “This is what happened the last time you talked shit overseas” statement. In which case, that dude might be on a no-fly list now.

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        Or Australia and the recent church stabbings. NZ and the Christchurch thing, plenty of counties have shit banned beside China.

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      I’m pretty sure that New Yorkers knows what 9/11 looks like. I think people dramatically overestimate how much Americans care about stuff like this.

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        6 months ago

        Can’t blame them for thinking that, we built a monument for 2,996 people and then waged a war over it that killed 100,000, not including a lot of our own.