The Future of Edgy Content on the Internet

To answer OP's question better, one of the anti-Kiwi Farms articles said "The Internet isn't a game, it's real life." That's the mindset people have toward things now. How can the Internet possibly stay free when people take it so seriously?
In real life, yeah, possibly you got shit at uni if you were fucking Milo in Portland, Oregon. But if you were a regular Joe in a university somewhere in the midwest or the east coast I think the milieu was more moderate. Not entirely sure about this one, no first hand experience there.
It was, and that's even accounting for me being more moderate (still didn't like troons and loved ED) back then. For instance, at my college:
*If you put too much communism into a paper, the professors told you there were other ways of seeing it
*One professor (in a liberal arts course) booted a woman out of class because she argued with him about doing a paper from alternate points of view
*Another professor (also in a liberal arts course) let students debate whether immigration (especially Muslim immigration) was bad or good until one guy (who was Mexican) made some girl start crying "Muslims are people TOO!"
*The "LGBT+ Club" set up a table, they looked like normal people and weren't advocating freaky shit.
*There were no mandatory anti-white courses and the very rare times someone would argue race/feminism in class the professor would respectfully try and move on with the subject.

Keep in mind that Trayvon Martin, Gamergate, at least one big BLM riot, and I think a few really dumb college protests like the one with AIDS Skrillex and maybe the University of Missouri one happened in these years, but at my college you'd never know it.
 
Keep in mind that Trayvon Martin, Gamergate, at least one big BLM riot, and I think a few really dumb college protests like the one with AIDS Skrillex and maybe the University of Missouri one happened in these years, but at my college you'd never know it.

I don't remember Gamergate. That went out completely off my radar. I don't know what I was doing in 2014 but I got all that after the fact. I remember things generally getting sour around that time in real life, but the internet didn't really soured up for me until 2016.

To address the OP directly, I don't see a future for "edgy" content on the Internet unless you want to shit on christianity or the republicans. I'm a fairly moderate person and I come to Kiwifarms to shit on media I don't like more than the politics or the lolcows.

Like, I can make a comment or two shitting on Keffals or Fong-Jones but I don't feel the need to regularly reiterate in their threads how disgusting they are unless something major ellicits a comment.

I'm just saying cause, as I said, if restrictions of freedom of speech were targeting exclusively racist or homophobic sites like Niggermania or Stormfront of whatever, I don't think anyone would care, not even here. But the censorship doesn't just extend from outright racism and homophobia to just any criticism of non-white people or non-straight people that are perceived as behaving in an anti-social manner under the "racism" and "hate speech tag".

Increasingly I am finding that I cannot go on a movie-specific, or media-specific reddit (forgive me, father) or into IMDB or any other online community where such things are discussed and say "This thing was shit". I could write a wall of text about why this movie or videogame, or whatever, is shit, expressed in truly victorian era patrician language, and I would be called toxic or hater or whatever, and if the media in cuestion uses the smarmy tactic of using diversity as a shield (You know who does that), I will be called a racist, a sexist or whatever.

In other words, I am not allowed to not like product anymore.

If I went to a politics forum or space and I dare talking about such things as increasing economic inequalities, unelected power brokers such as EU Bureaucrats or US Lobbyists, abuse from financial institutions, institutionalised corruption or politicians more committed to WEF than their constituencies I will be called fringe and a conspiracy theorist, at the very least.

In other words, I am not allowed to discuss politics anymore unless I agree to discuss the issues I'm told to discuss in the terms I'm told such issues should be discussed.

In summary, there is an increasingly narrow list of approved talking points you are allowed to talk about in very specific terms, and the internet has been effectively privatised and forced into a huge amplifier of official truth. They had been very annoyed for a long time that they didn't control the Internet as they controlled TV and they finally found a way.

So the future of edgy content on the Internet is none, unless you abide by certified, 100% government approved edgy content.
 
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