The Internet has been known for being one of the most free places. You can do anything and everything here. From buying things on Amazon, watching movies on Netflix, uploading pictures on imgur and listening to music on Soundcloud. Of course, this also means that you are free to read and discuss anything with anyone openly across other websites, and post whatever you want and whenever you want.
However, this freedom hasn’t been without other kinds of enterprises and corporate businesses wanting to take it for themselves. We have the Stop Online Piracy Act, which back in October 2011 had many websites protesting against how businesses like Comcast want to control what can and what cannot be uploaded to the Internet. A lot of people have been unaware of t his because this isn’t as big as when the SOPA was threatening the Internet, but since then. Companies have attempted to take what’s known as Net Neutrality. We have spoken about Net neutrality previously, however. Now that the threat is rising again, some people may be uninformed as to what it is.
Net Neutrality, the reason you do as you please.
Net neutrality is the basic principle that protects our free speech on the Internet. This is made possible by Title II of the 1934 communication act which prevents Internet Service Providers (ISP) like Comcast or Verizon to name a few from slowing down and/Or blocking websites on the Open Internet, this basically means that these companies can’t control what we see or what we cannot see on our searches. No website would have prefferential treatment and everyone can do as they choose.
This is one of the reasons why the Internet hass become the free place that it is today, because it’s a place that thrives with creativity and everchanging opinions. Nowadays you can see a Youtuber speaking at large and freely questioning their government’s practices, or critics openly doing reviews while being protected by the Fair Use law. Imagine all that stripped away and receiving in exchange a service that downright mimics Cable TV, where the content you see if what has been approved by your service provider.
This is obviously one of the biggest threats the Internet has been facing over the years. Because it threatens our right to Free Speech and also threatens what’s considered one of the most open communication services at the moment. It’s better this way because the Internet has no real owner and as such, many people can act however they see fit and get their ideas flowing without any sort of chains.
“I want to help, what should I do?”
Many websites such as Pornhub, Patreon, GreenPeace, github, Vimeo and Netflix to mention a few have agreed to participate in the protest against widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees. By putting in Site Alerts which will show mockups of the “spinning wheel of death”, “blocked”, and “upgrade” alert modals at July 12. These mockups have the intention of “Blocking” access to the website and show just how bad these websites can get if the ISPs took control.
Apps are given the option to put a push notification for a call for action in pro of Net Neutrality, where people will be made aware of what the issue is and then be presented with the option to send a letter to the Congress and the Federeal Communications Commisionabout their concerns.
All the while, users are encouraged to participate by joining the fight through this website made by BattleForTheNet. In which people are provided tools for them to spread awareness through their social media posts, like a Twitter brigade and an opt-in program for Twitter urgent messages. The battle for an Open Internet is already happening, and it depends on communication and initiative.
As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.
Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.
You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.
The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.
The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.
The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.
Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.
For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”
Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.
Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.
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