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I'll probably regret this but..

There is a difference between "please delist things telling people to drink bleach to cure covid" and "remove this negative story of the government or else"

This kind of harkens back to the idea of shouting fire in a crowded theater. Misinformation, specifically about pandemics, or alluding threats against officials, can lead to a much larger issue.

Even Kavanaugh states that it is not uncommon for these requests to be denied by social media companies.

This does not cross into first amendment issues because the government is protesting the spread of misinformation, threats, or government secrets, but can very rarely compel something.

In your post, you mentioned Meta. Meta choosing to accept the government concerns is acceptable as Meta is a corporation enacting its own will. In particular, Meta chose to help stop the spread of misinformation in order to benefit society. Which sounds really wierd to say about Meta. It's the bare minimum, but still.

If you told Meta they aren't allowed to stop the spread of misinformation, you'd be then restricting the ability of a corporation to stop the spread of things such as hate speech, calls for violence, etc. Which a corporation could then be found liable for.

Meta as a corporation, has chosen to moderate that information, and users have agreed to that moderation when they chose to use Meta's platform.

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What ultimately annoyed me were a lot of small things adding up quickly. Or maybe small things.

Like quest and story writing across the board was just bland and bad in my opinion. I'm not a huge fan of multiverses as well either but that ones majorly subjective to people.

But things like the story between the UC and FC; who would agree to lock themselves to a few settled worlds in that much untamed space? And FC being cowboys of all things, really? I generally agree with story issues pointed out by people like PatricianTV and a few other youtubers who wrote essays on the issue of the story and setting.

Stories like the ancient generation ship had me super intrigued in the trailers but in gameplay it was just dull and empty. I could have seen a thousand ways that story could have been enhanced but they went with 3 options noone felt strongly for.

Quests across the board felt that way, just... missed potential and empty writing.

Weapon design was also... strange. They sounded like guns, sure. But they took a huge step back from the fo4/76 weapon design process that felt great. Modifying receivers to keep a gun current felt good in those two games but they decided on fixed damage values for tiers? And the designs of the guns themselves was strange. Some of them could not realistically move a bullet from their magazine to the receivers. Even in a scifi setting at least try to make a grounded design first, then add from there.

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Weirdly, I had a save corruption caused by selling a ship I stole. After new Atlantis broke, whenever I would go through a load screen my char customization would randomize. Sometimes I'd be a woman, sometimes a man. It was a wild time.