posted ago by Joshua2001
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Since we like to talk about Minecraft here I thought this was appropriate. In what kind of world do we live in where someone who was accused of cheating in a video game provides more of a defense then the elected officials accused of cheating in an election? What's even more striking about this is it would be easier for those elected officials to prove cheating didn't happen by doing a real audit of the vote.
If they don't put up a real defense everyone should just assume they cheated since it would be so easy to prove they didn't and they refuse to do that. Government officials shouldn't be putting in less effort then a gamer.
Quite true, actually. A fascinating case, in that the actions of the speedrun moderating team remind me of some of the people that compiled Biden's pile of utterly unlikely coincidences in a detailed report and all.
In the case of minecraft, those reports and evidence were viewed, adjudicated within the system, the reports were made public (as our reports were of this election fraud) to be examined by interested parties.
And the run was disallowed, while legitimate runs still remained. Granted as I understand the case the same people who compiled the evidence meted out the justice, but I might be wrong about that because I only tangentially followed it when my adult son (who has a minecraft server) brought it to my attention. But if that is the case it is even more striking, because that is a robust internally policing and correcting system. Our election officials have done all they could to not only not notice election and vote fraud, but to cover it up. A telling indictment.
What kind of a world do we live in where the moderating body of a video game, and the other members within that community, have more practical and workable Rule of Law than our Republic?
We can't even get our evidence heard before a court it seems.
Minecraft, in all respects, is looking far better than what is going on now.