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  • ShihalitoThe AgoraCensorship on feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    Looking at feddit.org’s homepage now, it has this rule:

    “Content that is illegal in Germany, Austria or Switzerland will be deleted and can lead to an immediate ban of the account.” (emphasis mine)

    I am totally ignorant of how German law applies to social media hosted in Austria and moderated by Germans, but the intent to not host content illegal in Germany seems clear and a clear motivation for their censorship. I also can’t evaluate the quality of their censorship because I’m not familiar with the requirements of German law.

    I wish some of those comments “just expressing dissatisfaction and questioning the policy” had survived, because without them it’s your word against theirs. :(


  • ShihalitoThe AgoraCensorship on feddit.org
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    11 days ago

    SJW here has similar policies to feddit.org. If it’s illegal in Canada, it can’t be hosted here, even if it’s legal in your country of residence.

    Are there any comments that were “just expressing dissatisfaction and questioning the policy” that survived in the modlog? It’s got a lot of users banned without a record of the comment.






  • I’ve been using vertical tabs for a while now. It rearranges your address bar and that’s going to take some time and annoyance to sort out, but I’ve got it back to where I like it.

    Vertical tabs aren’t as great as they would have been ten years ago. So many websites nowadays use a two- or three-column layout to use the excess horizontal space on a normal screen, and having the vertical tabs showing full length often compresses those. Thankfully there’s a button to switch between full-length tabs and just the favicon for those sites.












  • This one was a disappointment to me, because it was a test to see if it would be just as good as the original and it wasn’t.

    • Pacing: needing to take up twice as much time as the '96 anime means stretching scenes out. Adding back all the scenes from the manga that were cut in the original helps, and so did making up two extra tricks for Chou to show off with that flexible blade, but the tension can’t help but suffer some.

    • Music: I didn’t notice this on my first viewing, but after seeing people comment I went back and listened. Using heroic music for Kenshin’s attack with Shakkuu’s last sword instead of tense, ominous music was a major mistake. Sure, Kenshin is here to save the day, but that’s less important than whether Kenshin will save the day by losing his soul.

    • Positioning: I really disliked how Kenshin ends up next to Chou after giving him the elbow and how we clearly saw Chou’s body after Kenshin struck it with Shakkuu’s last sword. While Okina was talking, Kenshin should have been able to do something if he were that close to Chou, like disarm him or beat on him some more. The old anime pushes Chou far enough away that Kenshin plausibly couldn’t get over there and do something before Chou recovered. Showing Chou’s body clearly lets us see that he doesn’t have any cuts on him of the sort that would be expected after having been slashed with a very sharp sword.

    Sure, 80-90% as good as the original isn’t a disaster, but I’d convinced myself that this remake had climbed up to par with the original and it fell short when it needed to deliver.