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* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career was a significant topic of discussion in the 2016 presidential elections, around the time the game was released. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career was a significant topic of discussion in the 2016 presidential elections, around the time the game was released. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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* The questlines dealing with The New Dawn are a reference to Project Chanology, Anonymous' own attempts at dealing with the ChurchOfHappyology.
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* The questlines dealing with The New Dawn are a reference to Project Chanology, Anonymous' own attempts at dealing with the ChurchOfHappyology.Scientology.
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* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career was a significant topic of discussion in the 2016 presidential elections, around the time the game was released. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Let's leave it at that]].
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* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career was a significant topic of discussion in the 2016 presidential elections, around the time the game was released. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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Nothing recent about Police Brutality and profiling. That's not Ripped From The Headlines, that's commentary on a pre-existing trend.
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* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career sounds like taking a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook. And his banners say [[Creator/DonaldTrump things along the lines of her opponent, making it a twofer.]] It doesn't help that the CEO helping the politician delete the information is basically an {{Expy}} of Hillary Clinton as a CorruptCorporateExecutive instead of a politician, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a blonde woman in a blue pantsuit]].
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* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career sounds like taking was a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook. And his banners say [[Creator/DonaldTrump things along significant topic of discussion in the lines of her opponent, making it a twofer.]] It doesn't help that 2016 presidential elections, around the CEO helping time the politician delete the information is basically an {{Expy}} of Hillary Clinton as a CorruptCorporateExecutive instead of a politician, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a blonde woman in a blue pantsuit]].game was released. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Let's leave it at that]].
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* Marcus is a black man facing prejudice for a crime he never committed, which reflects the recent controversy over African-Americans being subject to {{Profiling}} and PoliceBrutality.
* During the Cyberdriver mission, Marcus is offended when the car's facial recognition software pops out an error message saying his face is "[[UnfortunateImplications too dark]]" for the sensors to process. This is a [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/ real problem]] with facial recognition software which has been attributed to the lack of ethnic diversity in Silicon Valley engineers causing a [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-why-facial-recognition-tech-cant-figure-out-black-people_us_56d5c2b1e4b0bf0dab3371eb gap in facial recognition training data]].
* During the Cyberdriver mission, Marcus is offended when the car's facial recognition software pops out an error message saying his face is "[[UnfortunateImplications too dark]]" for the sensors to process. This is a [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/ real problem]] with facial recognition software which has been attributed to the lack of ethnic diversity in Silicon Valley engineers causing a [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-why-facial-recognition-tech-cant-figure-out-black-people_us_56d5c2b1e4b0bf0dab3371eb gap in facial recognition training data]].
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* The questlines dealing with The New Dawn are likely a reference to Project Chanology, Anonymous' own attempts at dealing with the ChurchOfHappyology.
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* A DLC mission which focused on hospitals in the area getting infected by ransomware is a reference to several real-life cyber-attacks, such as the "Wannacry" ransomware attack in the UK.
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* A DLC mission which focused on hospitals in the area getting infected by ransomware is a reference to several real-life cyber-attacks, such as cyber-attacks happening on public sectors including local hospitals. However [[Main/HarsherInHindsight the DLC itself predates the real-life global-scale "Wannacry" ransomware attack that affects public sectors in the UK.world, including hospitals.]]
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* During the Cyberdriver mission, Marcus is offended when the car's facial recognition software pops out an error message saying his face is "[[UnfortunateImplications too dark]]" for the sensors to process. This is a [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/ real problem]] with facial recognition software which has been attributed to [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-why-facial-recognition-tech-cant-figure-out-black-people_us_56d5c2b1e4b0bf0dab3371eb lack of diversity in their seed data]].
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* During the Cyberdriver mission, Marcus is offended when the car's facial recognition software pops out an error message saying his face is "[[UnfortunateImplications too dark]]" for the sensors to process. This is a [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/ real problem]] with facial recognition software which has been attributed to the lack of ethnic diversity in Silicon Valley engineers causing a [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-why-facial-recognition-tech-cant-figure-out-black-people_us_56d5c2b1e4b0bf0dab3371eb lack of diversity gap in their seed facial recognition training data]].
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Many of the missions are based off of the exploits of Anonymous and other semi-recent events, albeit with more flair. This game is after all, a parody of modern life.
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Many of the missions are based off of the exploits of Anonymous and other semi-recent then-recent events, albeit with more flair. This game is after all, a parody of modern life.
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* A radio host will compare the issues about black crimes vs white crimes by bringing up an incident where a rapist only got six months after violating a girl that passed out at a party, which is an obvious nod to the Brock Turner scandal.
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* A radio host will compare the issues about black crimes vs white crimes by bringing up an incident where a rapist only got six months after violating a girl that passed out at a party, which is an obvious nod to the Brock Turner scandal.scandal.
* A DLC mission which focused on hospitals in the area getting infected by ransomware is a reference to several real-life cyber-attacks, such as the "Wannacry" ransomware attack in the UK.
* A DLC mission which focused on hospitals in the area getting infected by ransomware is a reference to several real-life cyber-attacks, such as the "Wannacry" ransomware attack in the UK.
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* The mission series where [[spoiler: Horatio is kidnapped and murdered by [[GangBangers the Tezcas]], and Marcus goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against them]] is possibly in reference to when [[TheCartel The Zeta drug cartel]] threatened to ''kill'' people if Anonymous came after them.
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* The mission series where [[spoiler: Horatio is kidnapped and murdered by [[GangBangers the Tezcas]], and Marcus goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against them]] is possibly in reference to when the [[TheCartel The Zeta drug cartel]] threatened to ''kill'' people if Anonymous came after them.
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* During the Cyberdriver mission, Marcus is offended when the car's facial recognition software pops out an error message saying his face is "[[UnfortunatImplications too dark]]" for the sensors to process. This is a [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/ real problem]] with facial recognition software which has been attributed to [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-why-facial-recognition-tech-cant-figure-out-black-people_us_56d5c2b1e4b0bf0dab3371eb lack of diversity in their seed data]].
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* During the Cyberdriver mission, Marcus is offended when the car's facial recognition software pops out an error message saying his face is "[[UnfortunatImplications "[[UnfortunateImplications too dark]]" for the sensors to process. This is a [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/ real problem]] with facial recognition software which has been attributed to [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-why-facial-recognition-tech-cant-figure-out-black-people_us_56d5c2b1e4b0bf0dab3371eb lack of diversity in their seed data]].
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* During the Cyberdriver mission, Marcus is offended when the car's facial recognition software pops out an error message saying his face is "[[UnfortunatImplications too dark]]" for the sensors to process. This is a [[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/ real problem]] with facial recognition software which has been attributed to [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-why-facial-recognition-tech-cant-figure-out-black-people_us_56d5c2b1e4b0bf0dab3371eb lack of diversity in their seed data]].
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* One side op is based around a defense contractor mass-collecting data from around the city using stingray scanners, similar to the controversy that police around the US were buying and using these kinds of devices.
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* One side op is based around a defense contractor mass-collecting data from around the city using stingray scanners, similar to the controversy that police around the US were buying and using these kinds of devices.devices.
* A radio host will compare the issues about black crimes vs white crimes by bringing up an incident where a rapist only got six months after violating a girl that passed out at a party, which is an obvious nod to the Brock Turner scandal.
* A radio host will compare the issues about black crimes vs white crimes by bringing up an incident where a rapist only got six months after violating a girl that passed out at a party, which is an obvious nod to the Brock Turner scandal.
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* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career sounds like taking a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook. And his banners say [[Creator/DonaldTrump things along the lines of her opponent, making it a twofer.]] It doesn't help that the CEO helping the politician delete the information is basically an {{Expy}} of Hillary Clinton as a CorruptCorporateExecutive instead of a politician, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a blonde woman in a blue pantsuit]].
* Social media is accused of tailoring newsfeeds to promote the candidates that they prefer, much like [[http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006 Facebook]] and [[http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/andrew-napolitano/did-google-adjust-its-autocomplete-algorithm-hide-/ Google]] were accused of doing.
* Marcus is a black man facing prejudice for a crime he never committed, which reflects the recent controversy over African-Americans being subject to {{Profiling}} and PoliceBrutality.
* One side mission involves Marcus trying to prevent a rap album being bought by Gene Carcani, the owner of a pharmaceuticals company that just jacked up the price of Leukaemia medication, which sounds similar to the antics of Martin Shkreli, the owner of a pharmaceuticals company that jacked up the price of AIDS medication, and who brought the only copy of a rap album by Music/WuTangClan. There's also the fact that Shkreli unsucessfully tried to buy a copy of ''The Life of Pablo'' by Music/KanyeWest, for whom the rap artist who made the rap album Gene Carcani tries to buy in the game seems to be an {{Expy}} of. He's even called "the most hated man in America", just like Shkreli.
* Haum's quest line starts in a manner reminiscent of the HB Gary Federal incident where HB Gary's CEO had an interview where he claimed to have infiltrated Anonymous's inner circle and was going to expose "them" - or rather, people who supported Anonymous which drew the group's wrath, then being hacked as a massive retaliation.
* The [=FBI=] going behind the law and getting hackers to give them exploits when they can't get warrants is very much an attack on the same group due to their very public feud with Apple to make them open up a terrorist's phone, then paying hackers to breach the phone instead (as well as not telling Apple how it was done despite a court order).
* The mission series where [[spoiler: Horatio is kidnapped and murdered by [[GangBangers the Tezcas]], and Marcus goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against them]] is possibly in reference to when [[TheCartel The Zeta drug cartel]] threatened to ''kill'' people if Anonymous came after them.
* The 2007 Financial Crisis is an important part of the Auntie Shu Boys quest. [[spoiler: It was an early test of Bellwether used to manipulate the financial markets, and it proves that Blume is involved in insider trading]].
* The questlines dealing with The New Dawn are likely a reference to Project Chanology, Anonymous' own attempts at dealing with the ChurchOfHappyology.
* One side op is based around a defense contractor mass-collecting data from around the city using stingray scanners, similar to the controversy that police around the US were buying and using these kinds of devices.
* A politician deleting sensitive information that could compromise their political career sounds like taking a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook. And his banners say [[Creator/DonaldTrump things along the lines of her opponent, making it a twofer.]] It doesn't help that the CEO helping the politician delete the information is basically an {{Expy}} of Hillary Clinton as a CorruptCorporateExecutive instead of a politician, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a blonde woman in a blue pantsuit]].
* Social media is accused of tailoring newsfeeds to promote the candidates that they prefer, much like [[http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006 Facebook]] and [[http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/andrew-napolitano/did-google-adjust-its-autocomplete-algorithm-hide-/ Google]] were accused of doing.
* Marcus is a black man facing prejudice for a crime he never committed, which reflects the recent controversy over African-Americans being subject to {{Profiling}} and PoliceBrutality.
* One side mission involves Marcus trying to prevent a rap album being bought by Gene Carcani, the owner of a pharmaceuticals company that just jacked up the price of Leukaemia medication, which sounds similar to the antics of Martin Shkreli, the owner of a pharmaceuticals company that jacked up the price of AIDS medication, and who brought the only copy of a rap album by Music/WuTangClan. There's also the fact that Shkreli unsucessfully tried to buy a copy of ''The Life of Pablo'' by Music/KanyeWest, for whom the rap artist who made the rap album Gene Carcani tries to buy in the game seems to be an {{Expy}} of. He's even called "the most hated man in America", just like Shkreli.
* Haum's quest line starts in a manner reminiscent of the HB Gary Federal incident where HB Gary's CEO had an interview where he claimed to have infiltrated Anonymous's inner circle and was going to expose "them" - or rather, people who supported Anonymous which drew the group's wrath, then being hacked as a massive retaliation.
* The [=FBI=] going behind the law and getting hackers to give them exploits when they can't get warrants is very much an attack on the same group due to their very public feud with Apple to make them open up a terrorist's phone, then paying hackers to breach the phone instead (as well as not telling Apple how it was done despite a court order).
* The mission series where [[spoiler: Horatio is kidnapped and murdered by [[GangBangers the Tezcas]], and Marcus goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against them]] is possibly in reference to when [[TheCartel The Zeta drug cartel]] threatened to ''kill'' people if Anonymous came after them.
* The 2007 Financial Crisis is an important part of the Auntie Shu Boys quest. [[spoiler: It was an early test of Bellwether used to manipulate the financial markets, and it proves that Blume is involved in insider trading]].
* The questlines dealing with The New Dawn are likely a reference to Project Chanology, Anonymous' own attempts at dealing with the ChurchOfHappyology.
* One side op is based around a defense contractor mass-collecting data from around the city using stingray scanners, similar to the controversy that police around the US were buying and using these kinds of devices.
