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Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)

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2 HN users recommended this comedy video3 months2023–2026 score 3
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN users post it as a meme or satirical comment in threads about AI regulation, age verification and online identity.

A fan-made Metal Gear Solid 2 codec call using AI voice synthesis, in which the Colonel warns Raiden about using AI to censor the internet and enforce digital ID. It riffs on the game's 'Selection for Societal Sanity' conversation.

“which watching is in my opinion worth your time” (HN, 2025)

3 recommendations · 7 citations · 5 jokes · Comedy · partly dated

15 Hacker News comments

From the HN archive; up to 20 kept per video, favoring different commenters. Recommendations first.

@aleph_minus_one Jun 2025 Recommends
on HN thread The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess
> I think that, ultimately, systems that humans use to interact on the internet will have to ditch anonymity. Relevant meme video (which watching is in my opinion worth your time): Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version) [this video]
Meme video about AI forcing identity verification.
@normalaccess Aug 2025 Recommends
on HN thread Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
Correct, and it's to put the genii back in the bottle so to speak. Great video on how AI is being actively used to break the internet. Cause a problem, provide the solution. [this video]
Video on AI being used to break the internet.
@normalaccess Aug 2026 Recommends
on HN thread How Claude marks AI-generated content
This is a meme video but I think it hits the nail on the head. TLDR: AI will force global online digital ID for everyone that uses the internet for the exact reason you mentioned. And that would forever change free speech forever allowing the powers that be to put the genie "back in the bottle" so to speak. link: Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - [this video]
Meme video arguing AI will force global digital ID.

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@mgdlbp Mar 2023 Cites it
on HN thread It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes
You can search for it given the keywords... [link] Relevant speculative fiction that tops the current /wsg/ thread: [this video]
Speculative fiction about AI and censorship.
@normalaccess Oct 2023 Cites it
on HN thread Biden to Issue First Regulations on Artificial Intelligence Systems
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All joking aside I firmly believe that this “crisis” is manufactured or at least heavily influenced by those that want to shut down the internet and free communications. Up until now they have been unsuccessful. Copyright infringement, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, child exploitation, deep fakes, none have worked to garner support. Now we have an existential threat. Video, audio, text, nothin is off limits and soon it will be in real time (note: the GOV tries to stay 25 years ahead of the private sector). This meme video incapsulates this perfectly. [this video] Mark my words, in five years or less we will be begging the governments of earth to implement permanent global real time tracking for every man woman and child on earth. Privacy is dead. And WE killed it.
Meme video said to capture the manufactured AI crisis.
@normalaccess Aug 2025 Cites it
on HN thread Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet
Related video about the need to control AI with a global ID system to control "misinformation and disinformation" as it will be imposable to tell what is real and what is fake. We are getting hit from all sides. You will be tracked and it will be used against you. [this video]
Video on controlling AI via a global ID system.
@amiga386 Feb 2026 Cites it
on HN thread The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
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You're not thinking more than one step ahead. If you let a third party define who "has ID", "is human", etc. you give that third party control over you. You already gave control of your attention away to the sites who host the UGC, now you also give away control of your sense of reality. At any point they can tell a real human what they can and can't say, and if they go against their masters, their "real human" status is revoked, because you trust the platform and not the person. If we want to go full conspiritard, we could accuse those of wanting to control speech to be the financial backers of those flooding social media with AI slop: [this video] -- this fictional video thematically marries Metal Gear Solid 2's plot with current events: "perfect AI speech, audio and video synthesis will drown out reality [...] That is when we will present our solution: mandatory digital identity verification for all humans at all times"
Fictional video marrying Metal Gear Solid 2's plot with current events.
@dane-pgp Mar 2023 Makes a joke
on HN thread Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning
"Controlling the output of generative AI technology is simple. We will create context for its use. First we will censor any use related to social taboos. Then we will censor anything else that we desire. If anyone complains, we will accuse them of wanting to engage in or promote social taboos." [this video]
@sinity Mar 2023 Makes a joke
on HN thread Europe's big tech bill is coming to fruition
> And who decides which information is valid and which isn't? [this video] Hehe > Who are you to decide what's misinformation anyway? > That sounds like something misinformation terrorist would say. ... > First, we'll censor any use related to social taboos. Then we'll censor anything we desire. If anyone complains, we'll accuse them of wanting to engage in and promote social taboos.
@bakugo May 2023 Makes a joke
on HN thread HBO Max new Captcha system
> We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Relevant: [this video]
@safety1st Jun 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess
Time to go full blown conspiracy theory mode [this video] 1) Even telephone calls will become totally untrustworthy --> 2) Mandatory digital identity verification for all humans, at all times --> 3) Total control and censorship, the end of what we think of as the Internet today.

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