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idk why but the consor bot doesn't like my comment He mentioned Star Citizen in the Techlinked video and it took over the news for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqxzE1m2fzg IT'S NOT EVEN IN BETA ITS STILL IN ALPHA. In the time span of Star Citizen being in development Elon Musk announced, built and launched a rocket into space, and not to mention the games macro transactions from ALL the ships you can buy in the store. As of June 2020 the game has over $300 MILLION U.S DOLLARS FROM FUNDING(source: wiki). The closet game that i can think of to having that budget is GTA V from somewhere between $137 million to $265 million(source: Business Insider) and it was in development for about 3 years as opposed to Star Citizen's development which is on going and has been in development since 2010. My prediction for that games relase date is 2025. This comment was posted on; 2021, February, 10th i wanted an exact date on this comment so i can look back on it in 5 years to see if my prediction was right.

Hey LTT community, I'm looking at starting a live stream but I want to try and keep it friendly to younger audiences and my grandma; that kind of thing. To that end, I'm looking for some way to censor cursing and strong language from video games on the fly. Optimally An automatic word recognition solution would be epic. But more practically a macro I can tie to one of my mouse keys to bleep the audio in a buffered delay would also work. I know that standard news censor work by live editing the buffer between the recording and the broadcast using fancy external boxes and whatnot but I'm looking for a software solution that would work with Xplit or OBS or independently of them. Any ideas?

So, the Investigatory Powers Bill passed recently, which introduces a mandatory requirement for ISPs to keep a 12 month record of their user's usage data, as well as outlining when the UK government can access that data (realistically, it's whenever they please). Now, the UK Government has announced plans to force ISPs into blocking "adult" websites. This will be added into the existing Digital Economy Bill 2016-17, changing what has so far been a voluntary system for ISPs. This may not seem like a new issue to many, as most of the big ISPs in the UK have already adopted the Government's optional pornographic filters that can be opted out of by the consumer. However, the legislation being added to the bill is not simply making all ISPs comply with the current filters. Instead, it is the idea to implement blocks on UK and overseas "adult" websites that do not implement "tough age verification measures". This raises some big concerns as to what kind of age verification methods are going to be considered acceptable and how they will be implemented. Many, including myself, expect these age verification methods to involve inputting personal information that can be used to check someone's age against a database. I can quite clearly see this leading to people having to register themselves to their computer on a UK Government database in order to access content. This is very, very scary in terms of privacy and security. Just looking at the fallout from the Ashley Madison hack is scary enough. Another major concern is to what "adult" content actually is. In the portrayal of the legislation, the government focuses on the term "pornographic" but within the legislation itself, it is only referred to as "adult content" or similar. The legislation appears to be deliberately vague to give the Government more power, from my perspective. Obviously, educational sites are going to end up blocked as they will get flagged as "adult". They bring this up in the article, how many sites have been blocked in the past by similar systems. As with the Investigatory Powers Bill, it is scary how much power this legislation will give the UK Government. The new legislation gives the government power to force payment services such as VISA and Mastercard to withdraw support for non-compliant sites. This may seriously damage some smaller sites that have UK customers, but perhaps do not have the know-how or funds to implement sufficient age verification systems. So, this isn't a bill that purely affects the UK's sites. Interestingly, this new bill acts as a bypass of the EU's Net Neutrality rules, which basically ban ISPs from implementing excessive restrictions on legal sites or services. Blocking sites at the ISP level is against these rules, but as the sites would technically be considered illegal (from my understanding), there's no issue in blocking them. Seeing as the UK is set to leave the EU, we're also going to lose the protection of other similar laws and rules set by the EU, including some of our fundamental human rights laws. Personally, the amount of control the UK Government will get once we leave the EU is what scares me most. It would have been bad with David Cameron, but I feel it is even worse with Theresa May, as our Government is the most right wing it has been for a while. These recent legislation passes are just the beginning if you ask me. I can see us moving towards countries like China in terms of censorship and internet access. Including issues of smaller sites implementing systems that meet the guidelines (whatever they may end up being), there is also an issue for smaller ISPs that will have to develop and deploy the blocking systems (and the storage of their users' data, thanks to the IPB). These ISP level blocking systems aren't exactly going to be cheap to implement and keep updated. These blocks are not set to be opt-out options like the current systems. These are mandatory, for everyone. So, are you an adult without children? The government's going to be blocking your access to pornographic content (actually, "adult" content) unless you're willing to provide details confirming your age, whether you like it or not. Of course, to those of us that are tech-savvy, these filters and blocks will be easy to circumvent with a simple VPN or proxy server, so they're ultimately going to be a waste. A lot of those which the filters are designed to "protect" are incidentally going to be some of the most knowledgeable on how to bypass blocks. Schools have been implementing content blocking for years, so it's unlikely it will be hard for a teenager to get round these sorts of blocks, especially when VPNs are becoming much more common. I do fear that the UK government may be moving towards a ban on VPNs once they realise how easy they are to use to get around such blocks. Even without a VPN, there are still many ways to access adult content without circumventing a block. Curious kids will still be typing "boobies" into image search engines with safe search turned off. Maybe the Government intends to implement these blocks on Google as well. Jim Killock, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group has criticised the legislation and the Government's lack of thought and planning. He said: Honestly, the education of parents on the availability of parental filters would be a much more worthwhile system than these blocks and rules are. In the guise of protecting the children, the UK Government is just censoring things they don't want people to see. (remember Cameron's ridiculous pornography laws including spanking and face sitting?). There's likely much more to come in the following years post-Brexit. Sources: ISPReview eTeknix OpenRightsGroup EU Net-neutrality Guidelines

Ah, the UK Government's war on pornography continues. Not too long ago, I posted a topic looking at how the UK Government plans on introducing strict age verification on all "adult" websites, blocking any sites that do not comply with their terms. Now, that legislation is scary because of how vague the terminology is. It simply refers to "adult" content, rather than pornography. Still, it is being pushed forward under the guise of "protecting the children" from that nasty, evil pornography. Now, it has emerged that the government is planning something much more terrifying. They have plans to add another change (in addition to age verification) to the Digital Economy Bill that will essentially block all websites that host pornography that is considered "non-conventional". As with the age verification legislation, the wording of this new part of the bill is extremely vague. It merely describes the blocked content as being "non-conventional", with no real indication of what that actually is. More than likely, it will include the types of pornography that were made illegal to film in the UK, such as female ejaculation, face sitting and fisting. Of course, these actions are still legal to perform with a consensual partner(s) in your own home, you just can't watch it or film it.... For some reason. This ISP level block wouldn't be exclusive to UK sites like the ban on filming certain acts. This is a blanket ban that will block all sites hosting the non-conventional pornography, regardless of the country it is hosted in. A big concern for this legislation is what the Government is going to consider "non-conventional", as it's extremely vague and subjective. To one person, homosexual pornography may be considered non-conventional, so could that be blocked? Even if it's not homosexual pornography that is blocked, if something like sodomy is blocked because the UK Government doesn't like it, it could essentially block a lot of homosexual male pornography, essentially meaning that the UK Government doesn't approve of homosexual males having sex. Kitguru raises a good point here. Technically, sites like Tumblr, Twitter and a ton of image hosting websites often host pornography that can be considered non-conventional, so are they going to be blocked as well? How are the sites that host the blocked content going to be identified? Perhaps there will be an influx in jobs for watching porn to decide which sites to block. Get your CVs ready. Much like the age verification systems (which seem to be planning to use credit card checks to determine age, and exactly who you are), these blocks are unlikely to be very effective at preventing access to such sites, as VPN and proxy servers are available so readily. However, considering the amount of censorship laws the UK plans on passing, I wouldn't be surprised to see a future ban on VPNs and similar services. Well, the UK Government is starting to go down a very dangerous and scary path. In the past, they have voiced their support for China's stance on internet control and censorship. This does not bode well for UK citizens, especially once we leave the EU and the UK Government gains more control over the laws they can pass and we lose the protection that EU laws, such as the Net Neutrality rules, offer us. Honestly, it's not the content that is being blocked that is worrying me, it is the fact that the Government is planning on blocking content, purely because they don't like it. The age verification legislation, while still a scary precedent, can be argued to have some useful purpose. This, however, is just censorship based on some personal views of our government which can easily lead to the blocking of other things the government doesn't like. If this extends to blocking certain views because the UK doesn't like it, that is very, very scary and akin to North Korea's stance on the internet. While I've joked about leaving the UK because of Brexit, if the UK continues down this road, I wouldn't be opposed to taking a job in another country, just the get away from a Government that is pushing its own views so forcefully on the population. Source: Kitguru UK "adult" age verification rulings:

This has me sorta annoyed. I'm not a big user of reddit but this really shows how low they've gone now and how political they have turned. This frightens me in regards with the traction social media has and it's importance to be an open platform. Like reddit took forever to ban subreddits that promoted jailbait and similar topics but why they decided to censor this I have no idea what so ever for. Is reddit now another crap-platform? What do you thought? I'm not interested in discussing what the news article is about but rather the methods reddit has started to use. Source: http://snew.github.io/r/news/comments/98u3l6/south_africa_begins_seizing_whiteowned_farms/

So, I have not yet seen this posted officially on any tech news sites, so I have no source to link other than the screenshot below.However, given what happened, I figure this should qualify as news. If I am wrong, mods, feel free to move or delete this, however I ask that you PM me to let me know instead of just making it disappear. ----------------------------------- It has been posted in the past, here and on multiple tech sites, that steam is beginning to censor links to torrents in their chat. Now, they are censoring links to CD-Key vendors as well. I sent a friend this link and instead of receiving the link, he received a message saying Link Removed. The censorship of torrent links is understandable, but CD-Key vendors are not illegal like torrents are. Among the CD Key vendors out there, Kinguin, the one whose link was censored, is probably the most legitimate business of all of them, giving you the option to buy from any number of smaller vendors with them as the middleman, ensuring a certain extra degree of buyer safety. I cannot see people being happy with this change to the steam chat in the long run, and where this goes from here on, we shall see. [sOURCE] I had said friend take a screenshot of the chat window.