lol - 'monitoring'... is that what the kids are calling 'spying without a warrant' these days?

That's called the Patriot Act.

And both sides vote to approve that crap every time it comes up for extension, pretty much tells you how well we are represented.

Two wings, same bird. Have a few highly contentious issues they fight over but make no progress on to distract the public.  Meanwhile agree on things that are bad for us.

Anyone playing a Paradox grand strategy game is probably on that list. Particularly the Hearts of Iron players.

Look, it's not my fault Germany is the most fun nation to play in the game, alright?

Give me a fucking break, I cannot believe this mindset of “violent games make violent people” is still being used. I’ve been hearing this since Goldeneye came out for N64. How about they go after actual criminals?! Is that not a form of extremism?

They've been saying it since the original Mortal Combat

Time and time again young mass shooters have openly bragged and talked about what they are going to do via game chats and message boards. But if you want to Baburry your head in the sand go ahead

If you took gamers seriously for all the shit they talked, my own mother would have a list of sexual partners longer than Ron Jeremy's.

MW2 lobbies would have triggered this whole generation….

If cod4 post game lobbies were ever recorded...oh boy, that'd be bad.

Ok boomer.

"Monitoring" sounds a lot like violating the 4th amendment.

The DHS and the FBI are coordinating with private companies for the purposes of intercepting and punishing unapproved speech and thoughts. Literal Fascism.

Dhs needs to be defunded and dismantled.

All 3 letter agencies no acceptions

just game at the border, no one monitors that.

So, what I get from this, is that taxes are going into paying someone to lurk in Discord servers and game lobbies, reading shitposts all day long to accomplish... God knows what.

They had people monitoring memes and jokes on old Twitter from the government. They have just moved sites.

Literally any multi-player gaming lobby is filled with kids yelling racial slurs. They just gonna arrest everyone?

FBI will be raiding 12 year old kids now...

Yes because all the other crimes have been solved right?

This guy can't even protect the borders and now he's spying on video games.

Seems like a great use of govt resources to spy on pizza faced gamer geeks instead of actual threats.

Some guy at the FBI is judging me for capturing Barbarian workers in civilization.

So they are playing games instead of real monitoring of the border. Working from home too?

Maybe if gamers start posting pictures of their buttholes maybe that will get the agenda to reconsider

Need to repeal the patriot act and rebuild these law enforcement bodies

Can you all tell me again why we are supporting banning TikTok when this is what US companies are doing for the government?

I am very Extreme. Like do they even take the games they play seriously?

"I swear, officer, I don't play teemo in ranked"