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As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there's been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it's fine to disagree, I'm finding it suspicious that there weren't comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

There was criticism about it every time it's been brought up. But it's only been like 5 or 6 people just parroting what some AAA studio's CEO (or the son of the ultimate WoW neckbeard) said about it.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 1 hour ago

Yeah bit he worked at blizzard, so he knows way more about assaulting co workers than you. Wait what are we talking about?

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 41 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

One year ago, right at the beginning of the petition, PirateSoftware came out misreading the initiative by suggesting the idea the petition was about forcing indie developer to host their server, at their expense, forever and other stupid idea on this line. A fabricated these narrative to act as the typical popular youtubers that say endlessly: "this is st0pid, they are st0pid". The fabricated narrative confused other popular YouTubers with mixed feelings; and there was very little support. This assured PirateSoftware the first place on the youtube rankings when you search for "stop killing games", plus had lot of kids brainwashed into thinking " this is st0pid". This kind of criticism never went away completely, the were partially silenced by the very recent roaring as people understood correctly what it was actually about. As SKG keep hitting its milestone the angered roar did lowered, so now you can ear again the "this is st0pid" team

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 hours ago

Another bot paranoia...

Not every people that disagree with the norm is a bot. The petition got more popular recently, even some news outlet that has nothing to do with games started talking about it in my country in the last week, so has a high chance of a bunch of people that didn't read much about started to comment with their "protect the billionaires" reaction.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

Well certain EU politicians support SKG, so yeah it's making a lot of corpos uncomfy

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 53 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome to the age of bots.

Enjoy your perpetual unavoidable and even undetectable bias and opinion influencing astroturfing.

Paid for by whoever doesn't want the things that you want, to influence the people around you to bite at each other's throats and work against their own interests.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 13 hours ago

This is one of the biggest reasons Reddit has turned to shit.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

I think suspicious is the wrong word. Suspicious seems to suggest doubt or a lack of certainty, but the criticism is pretty predictable. Industry forces could afford to ignore it when it looked impossible to get the signatures, but now that the signatures are in the bag they're having to take a different tactic.

SOME of the criticism is certainly genuine and exactly what it appears to be at face value, but it was inevitable that those doubts would be artificially boosted now.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 61 points 21 hours ago

Because it's about to affect big money so they sic their bots on it to shape public opinion and stomp it, like everything else.

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