This is a CEO who shares opinions on many things he is truly uninformed on.
Well yes. And “political oponents” are nazis.
Check his hard drive. Is he on the lolita flight logs?
You know, if it was anything but Twitter, I could at least have an ounce of sympathy. I remember Tumblr getting a bunch of cheap heat over its active community of furry enthusiasts. Valve cracked down on a bunch of lewd games in their Steam Store, largely out of prudishness. Reddit’s been a notorious hub for revenge porn since forever, and its still been considered draconian to blank-ban the whole site.
But pretty much everyone drew the line at CSAM. Hell, 4chan generally drew the line at CSAM. Sites that had virtually no moderation still managed to swing their tiny hammers at CSAM wherever it cropped up.
Twitter seems to have fully embraced this shit with an enthusiasm that can only be described as satanic. Just really, nakedly, unapologetically evil. Maybe Sweeny just doesn’t get that, and he’s reflexively defending another billionaire from the oppressive hand of Big Government Regulation. Maybe the dude’s just a nounce and thinks CSAM is no big deal. Either way, someone needs to rub his nose in it until he gets the picture.
Satan isn’t a pedo. There aren’t children in hell. These people are worse then Satan.
There aren’t children in hell.
Law and Order SVU 6.06 begs to differ.
Satan isn’t a pedo.
I wouldn’t hang my hat on this. Satanists have as much a problem with pedophilia as every other branch of the Christian faith.
Kind of doubt it. I feel like satanists have higher morals than christians
Aleister Crowley believed there were three forms of sex magick; autoerotic, heterosexual, and homosexual, (Drury, 2012). He claimed that by performing specific sexual rituals, including sado masochistic sex rituals on young boys, one could achieve financial gains and personal success, (Drury, 2012). For Crowley, the sex rituals were a sacrament and ingesting the fluids from sex and certain biological functions, such as using menstrual blood in rituals, would imbue him with knowledge, power, and success, (Drury, 2012). Certainly, in creating a cult of personality with a devoted following and in being an influencer through many generations, he can be considered successful
Hardly a secret
Shows what you know about Satanists.
Satanists don’t believe in Satan. They call themselves Satanists because it annoys the Bible bashes who likes to hide behind religion as an excuse for being terrible people. You know, the types that like to say “we are good Christian conservative god-fearing family” and leave you to fill in the missing pieces.
Satanists advocate being good people and helping each other precisely because there isn’t a god to enforce this stuff. Satanists aren’t Christian and they don’t believe in God.
You are thinking of the Church of Satan.
I’m sure there are many types of satanists.
Tax those rich snobs
Eat the rich
I oppose CSAM and child abuse.
-Tim Sweeny.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SAY THAT!
Christ on a stick! Weren’t pedo’s like the worse of the worse?! When did they start getting a voice in daily regular discourse!
Son of a bitch!
Not only that, but the side of politics which regularly fantasizes publicly about murdering pedophiles is awful quiet about the fact that the vast majority of offenders come from their ranks.
I kinda wonder.
Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.
Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.
So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?
And to further that, I wonder if there’s almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you’re in “the group”, they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you’ve been involved with so you can’t turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.
Given all the stuff that’s happened and turned out to be projection, what’s the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?
But this guy is being open about it. Apparently being a paedophile isn’t blackmail material for CEOs. Elon does it, the president does it, thousands of people on Twitter do it. Goddamn.
Because it’s easier for these psychopaths to believe that there’s a cage of children in some random pizza restaurant basement rather than believe a billionaire has a group of children in their mcmansions.
Commenting on the very article from the OP, he called the content disgusting.
Anything political has slid so far from the typical right–left continuum that the ruler class’s inner evil is plain for everyone to see.
Is it? Is it really? Is there some kind of lizard person level conspiracy out there that our entire ruling elite are just populated by pedophiles?
Is it some kind of pathology when somebody reaches a certain level of financial Freedom and power that they immediately find themselves attracted to the children?
What is happening to this world!
Well, the left was like, y’all chill, trans are people, respect that.
The GOP was like, hold my beer.
Found the pedo!
He’s even got the glasses…
So he’s politicising child abuse material now, and associating it with the political right. He’s not entirely incorrect, but it seems like he needs to think before he opens his idiot mouth.
no, hes saying banning child porn is equivalent to “Censoring” political opponents=right wingers violating TOs.
… 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.
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.
The actual post is even worse. Has the gall to call this, “crony capitalism”…
What about all the ACTUAL OTHER CRONY CAPITALISM HAPPENING
Why did this freak pick THIS of all ongoing issues to get fired up about? Holy shit
Cuz he’s one of them. It’s how he became CEO. It’s how they all become CEO. It isn’t rocket science. They’re broken freaks.
This just in: Epic games CEO tim Sweeney is against banning child porn!
Censoring child porn is extra unfair to republicans as it’s the only way many if them can cum and only banning orgasms for one party isn’t fair.
I guess “think of the children” only applies when it erodes consumer privacy
They’re thinking about children all right …
Wow. There was just zero reason for him to say anything. Nobody is accusing Fortnite of being unsafe for kids. And he chose to say that. For himself.
He’s probably just trying to get noticed by Trump. “Hey, look at me! I’m on the side of you and the other pedoNazis!”
We already know they’re buddies; Tim Sweeney travelled to Saudi Arabia with Trump’s bribe-seeking entourage.
“Epic MAGAgames”
Edit: better link
He was on the list, but I couldn’t find him in any of the photos or videos from the event. The CEOs of Nvidia and OpenAI were indeed present and shaking hands though.
“I like kids too!”
He wants an invitation to Epstein island v2
I think the USA is a bit big to be considered an island
Well if north-Korea can call itself and democracy, why can’t Trump call the us an island?
“We have certain things in common, Donald. Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? A pal is a wonderful thing to have!”
Is EpicGames involved with Roblox? Because as far as minors go, I hear THAT game is a dumpster fire with zero redeemable qualities.
Not really, no. It’s clear that Epic took way worse a direction than Digital Extremes.
Digital Extremes, the makers of Warframe?
Indeed. DE branched off from Epic Games in the 90s, I believe. Obviously took a more ethical direction.
As per their download page https://www.roblox.com/download , no. Not to say EGS is good, it’s Roblox treasuring independency where they can.
Going by the claims their CEOs make you could swap them and things would progress as usual. Or regress, rather.
Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors’ report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.
Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.
But, his store has nothing to do with X. And, for example, Horses was banned from EGS too.
Hi every one, my name is Tim, and I like video games.
I like it when kids can fully enjoy playing video games.
Kids are great, they’re the future, and they should be able to enjoy video games!
. … …
You know what else I like?
Well, its called ERP, and it stands for…
wretching, vomit splashing noises
All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.
You’re an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.
The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.
*only entitlted PC gamers had a reason to care
No entitlement necessary.
People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.
What people don’t welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren’t interfering with games they didn’t own.
What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.
The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.
If his decisions weren’t openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.
1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It’s not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.
2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.
3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.
No one forced the studios to take up Epic’s offer of exclusivity. Nevertheless Sweeney is a cunt.
I swear, the whole outrage over EGS can only be plainly and simply explained as the stupid “no steam no buy”. When a game remains exclusive to this DRM launcher made by an American corporation for 50 years, all is well in the world, but when the game becomes exclusives to that DRM launcher made by that other American corporation for a year, suddenly all hell breaks loose. They’re both the same toxin! Just blind devotion to a company that only did very pro-consumer things like make lootboxes really popular and making it hip and cool to give up ownership of your games.
For the record, the Tim should really just shut up. Or really, any American wealthy CEO for that matter, their grand standing over freeze peach isn’t worth the oxygen required to produce it instead of just… not enabling CSAM like normal platforms do?
The problems with EGS are not about steam loyalty.
Yeah, no. EGS is a piece of shit DRM launcher, just like Valve’s own piece of shit, but it has the Epic logo. Heck, they even have free games and not even that is enough to kill the vitriol, so yeah it’s just “no steam no buy” all over again, or Steam would also be chided for many of the same things - which would be very dandy if it happened, after all, neither of them respect us enough to own our games without having to phone them home first.
I would rather pirate a game than claim it for free on Epic.
How is that Steam loyalty?
I’ll raise you one and say I’d rather pirate games than use either of them. At least there’s GOG, itch, Zoom-Platform, putting aside games that never come there until a decade later.
Someone check this man’s hard drive.
