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#126: Aug 29th 2015 at 5:40:32 PM

Something Awful proper would be a comedy radio station, and it's forums would be a gated community that everybody else hates.

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#127: Aug 30th 2015 at 5:02:33 PM

[up]Today I learned that Something Awful isn't just the forums.

Cracked... another comedy radio station? TV show?

WilliamRadarStorm my current job from News Station NT Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#128: Aug 30th 2015 at 6:16:01 PM

I think Cracked would be the equivalent of SNL.

You lot outside the states might or might not have heard of it.

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#129: Sep 4th 2015 at 3:21:29 PM

TV Tropes would be the neighborhood that used to be a Wretched Hive, before gentrification and better law enforcement cleaned up the place and demolished the seedier areas such as Troper Tales.

I'm guessing the mods of any site are politicians/business managers.

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#130: Sep 6th 2015 at 5:54:57 PM

Yeah, that makes sense.

edited 6th Sep '15 5:55:53 PM by SmartGirl333

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#131: Dec 28th 2015 at 2:33:26 PM

I always thought of administrators as being political leaders, while the moderators are law enforcement.

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#132: Dec 29th 2015 at 12:31:20 AM

The ban list is a holding cell.

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#133: Dec 29th 2015 at 12:36:00 AM

Nah, more like actually being just banned from the place in question

edited 29th Dec '15 12:36:41 AM by SmartGirl333

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#134: Dec 30th 2015 at 9:49:30 AM

Yeah. Being banned from a site would be akin to being, well, banished (exiled). Or perhaps, it means you get executed!

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#135: Dec 30th 2015 at 2:52:51 PM

This is a modern civilised environment sir

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#136: Jan 27th 2016 at 8:21:18 PM

Hulu would be a theater.

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#137: Jan 28th 2016 at 2:27:09 PM

Out of curiosity, what would the ever-enigmatic Cicada 3301 be?

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#138: Feb 17th 2016 at 7:45:01 PM

Secret spy organization?

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#139: Feb 17th 2016 at 10:07:40 PM

What about Danbooru?

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#140: Apr 29th 2016 at 8:57:38 PM

Netflix would be the video store that used to be Blockbuster.

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#141: Apr 30th 2016 at 2:17:25 PM

What would you expect the Internet City to look like in a country where it's heavily censored, like China?

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#142: Apr 30th 2016 at 3:10:19 PM

That country and its internet would the the equivalent of a gated community within the city, they'd be a section that's cut off from the rest of the city, basically a self imposed gheto.

As for TV Tropes, I'd say we'd be a giant social club/library with a ton of rules and it's own small security group.

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#143: Apr 30th 2016 at 3:13:41 PM

Lots of buildings go "under new management" five minutes after they set up shop. And are closed "until further notice."

[up]That one sounds better. Well, not "better" but more accurate.

edited 30th Apr '16 3:14:26 PM by Volatile-Fox

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#144: Apr 30th 2016 at 4:24:56 PM

[up][up][up] You mean if the TPP passes?

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#145: Apr 30th 2016 at 4:29:27 PM

Hmm, I would expect a censored Internet City to resemble the capital of an authoritarian country. Complete with mass surveillance and secret police!

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#146: Apr 30th 2016 at 4:44:42 PM

i'm gonna say that Silas' opinion is canon.

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#147: Apr 30th 2016 at 9:23:36 PM

Because it sounds more optimistic?

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#148: Apr 30th 2016 at 9:26:07 PM

Because there's literally no way that it can be normal-internet for some people and dystopia for others without it being a separate section. Real life does not exist in this thread, remember?

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#149: May 1st 2016 at 10:34:03 AM

The Internet isn't perfect either though. Besides, a city would have to be surrounded by other cities, right?

edited 1st May '16 10:39:22 AM by AHI-3000

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#150: May 1st 2016 at 4:52:38 PM

Wel, like, inside the censored section it's definitely your suggestion but it's not a whole alternate dimension or something


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