Streaming, The bad, the weird, the spam

Streaming is a very interesting and daunting prospects and few actually makes it. Personally I've been trying very hard, but I've yet to succeed. However that is not the topic this time around. People, let's talk about people, if these so called viewers can be called that. Cost of the people dropping by are nice, kind and interesting. The kind I want to keep around. Every now and then I get greeted by some truly heinous cretins. The kind I can only assume kick puppets and pulls the wings off flies.

One of the earlier streams I had was one where I worked on a cosplay prop. Nothing unusual there, but then a random stranger dropped by and wanted me to cut myself with my knife. Yes, some bell-ends will ask for such things.

Then there was this decapitated butt hole that started off throwing insult, after insult. A ceaseless discharge of rude statements. Needles to say I banned him and slagged him off like the kitchen refuse he was.

Some gets their kicks from finding ways to have me say racial slurs out loud, through obfuscation. Something i will not do. Not only is it rude, but it is against human decency and the terms of service. I will not go out of my way to have my service agreement terminated.

One of these peons opened up with a follow, which is always nice and welcome. Then he proceeded  to call me a dirty old man and several other, gendered insults. I'm certainly not a dom, let alone a sub.

However most of the people joining are simply spam accounts. Which try to sell me a service. The gall of these throw way accounts. Want to become famous vista our scummy page and buy fame, with your hard earned fortune.

Not everyone is rude though, some are just weird. I am pretty sure that one user I had on for a while was not being brat up by his father.

A ruddy shame that erotica of any sort is ground for being suspended, some people really like those double meaning innuendos. 

A lot of these curious creatures and cretins could easily be solved by simply having a verification needed to join. This might have the unintended effect of excluding children. But I'm not convinced teenagers should spend all day on twitch. Which makes me a bit of a hypocrite. Regardless there really need to be a system in place that needs out non human accounts. It would help a lot, especially on YouTube and twitter. Because on virtually all of these social media platforms creating an account is free, and only require a throw away email address and fake credentials. Which can be acquired easily at no cost at all.

My point is this don't be an anonymous dick that says things which most people would punch you in the face for.

Njål signing out.

Censorship is rubbish

Free speech alternatives to twitter, youtube, and facebook is a lie. At least publically available services. Because all of these services are run and owned by private corporations with way too much power. A bit like a maniacal evil genius that controls the strings. USA have this amazing thing called free speech, you might have heard about it. Essentially american can freely slag the government without being prosecuted. 

Meanwhile a service like youtube is free and makes their own rules whatever they are. They are terrible at consistency after all. Sure they are well within their power to do that, despite how inconvenient it is for everyone else. However these big technology companies have the power to eliminate any competitor, because they al use the same infrastructure and is beholdent to US rules and regulations. The other day parler got the boot, due to the recent kerfuffle in DC, after an influx of angry people. Gab had the same issue, but they managed to find a workable solution it seems.

My question is this though. Is there a way to host and run a service without hiding it on a private deep web service? Such as having a service run from a server in Uganda, or some such?

Is it possible to make a blockchain version of Twitter where there is no central server and service that can be killed by disgruntled censors? Gab apparently did this, after slagging of the concept for a while. They changed their tune when the big American tech companies gave them the axe. It seems a tad ironic that a service has to be hosred outside the land of the free, to avoid censorship.

The underlying question I have been pondering. Does excessive censorship actually work? Or does it just increase the problem in the first place, due to the inherent distrust garnered by hiding something.

In my personal experience, nothing makes a person more curious that what they are not privy to. Besides not does not fix the underlying problem, it simply hides it under the carpet. There is a reason the term skeletons in the closet exist as far as I know. Regardless this excessive censoring of speech due to political oppinions is what all despotic regimes does. From the third Reich, to Stalin.

Where am I getting with this ramble you might ask. To this I say, censorship of speech is bad, leads to dishonesty, and dissent.