In the U.S. at least, a vocal (and more importantly, politically motivated) group can get a lot of sway. We have systems that can turn 40% of the voters who turned out/were able to turn out into a super majority in our assemblies.
With that particular math, it doesn’t require a majority at all. But it does require that the group that wants to be pandered to exist, demonstrate political will (still gotta get that 40%), and at least have an idea which facet of the body politic they can best brand with.

Ayesh, what a mess.
No wonder Howardian works have such appeal.
Civilization, ancient and wicked indeed.
The urge satisfying remedy?
When someone is an @$$hole, just axe them to shut up, permanently.
What if we take a bipartisan approach and bifurcate the partisans?

This one jests, but this one must stop there before the jokes get a bit too dark and too serious.

Wheeling back to the issue…
What if it isn’t Funcom, nor Tencent, nor Sony, nor Microsoft, nor any shadow government agenda…
What if it is, like so much else, an outsourced bit of software designed who knows where, updated by an unknown being advised by some AI algorithms, and the results are just that.
The deliberate privatized censorship created by some wage slave in a windowless office and their ChatGP bestie out to make the world a more boring place?

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