CrystalVulpine

I always thought it was "damnit", but then one day I was corrected to "dammit", then shortly afterwards I was corrected back to "damnit", and now I'm being corrected to "dammit" again.

Currently, as of 11/26/2018 9:33 PM EDT, both subreddits have the downvoting buttons hidden by CSS. When I first joined reddit only r/Retconned had the downvotes hidden, and at one point it had the downvote button showing and r/MandelaEffect hid the downvote button with CSS, then they both hid it. It's changed a few other times as well during my short time on the site. The mods on both subs confirmed that they have never unhid the downvote button on either since they started hiding it.

Seems to fit with the current trends of society. There are a lot more exceptions to the 1st than there used to be it seems, I thought it used to protect all speech with the exception of things such as yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.

I also feel like our society as a whole doesn't really value freedom as much anymore, of course it has some to do with new generations being more left and "big government" than previous ones but looking at current history it seems it's (now) never really been a key value for us with the exception of a few of those who founded the US, and even they seem less freedom focused now.

I thought it used to be that only copying & redistributing or obtaining actual works themselves without permission (piracy) was illegal? Now it seems it's illegal to even think about something someone else owns the rights to unless you're watching/reading it, and things such as characters, places, names, and phrases are protected as well, and so-called "derivative" works are illegal without permission. Now things such as fan works, memes, parodies, remixes, and backup copies of stuff for personal use are illegal, even if you're not making money on them. And I don't recall software companies being able to restrict how you use you own technology just because they own the "intellectual prop