Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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Why aren't we talking about Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton?
SCOTUS said Texas' online ID requirements, a step toward ending online anonymity, are constitutional.
The same law exists in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia. 17 states, fittingly enough.
On August 14, SCOTUS allowed Mississippi's law to take effect.
Here's a video about them doing the same in Ohio.
This is going to be very, very bad for sites like ours if this ball keeps rolling.
"So you want kids looking at porn?" YOU KNOW THEY WON'T STOP AT PORN.
We don't know who owns GAW, it doesn't seem to be geo located and if the mods do know they never mention it. My guesstimate is that its military intelligence, they did provide hardened servers for 8kun some time ago.
I think we are safe but as for other sites?