I believe this opening statement by Anna Paulina Luna will go down in history.
MK Ultra is REAL and the CIA committed Crimes Against Humanity with it. pic.twitter.com/D6wWFuAeKs
https://twitter.com/i/status/2072053856947650950
Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical Games
Update [Fri 3rd Jul 2026, 12:15am]: It’s now been over 24 hours since Sony posted on any of its social media accounts, and it looks unlikely to return any time soon.
The platform holder’s X, Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram accounts haven’t changed since yesterday’s controversial physical games news.
YouTube has been updated a handful of times with new trailers, although these have clearly been submitted by third-party publishers in coordination with their marketing efforts.
The vast majority of the comments on YouTube are all about the company’s decision to stop manufacturing discs in 2028.
It’s going to be interesting to see how long it maintains this; when it closed Bluepoint it stayed away from social media for over 72 hours, but I don’t think fan sentiment is going to cool as quickly on this particular issue.
Original Story: Sony has seemingly abandoned all of its social media accounts after today’s controversial decision to stop manufacturing physical games in 2028.
The manufacturer posted on its X (or Twitter) account today to confirm the news, and hasn’t updated since.
Ordinarily it’d share today’s PS Plus Essential update with its followers, but it hasn’t published that anywhere aside from the PS Blog.
A Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls gameplay trailer, detailing the moves and combos of Iron-Man, also went out on the fighter’s official account – but not the PlayStation one.
Important updates:
News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY
News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14 pic.twitter.com/PWXTZGHAh6— PlayStation (@PlayStation) July 1, 2026
Meanwhile on YouTube, no trailers have been uploaded for 24 hours, and its last Bluesky update was on Tuesday. A Gitaroo Man video went out in the early hours of this morning on Facebook, but there’s been nothing since.
Meanwhile, its most recent Instagram update – published prior to today’s news – is packed with people begging the company to reconsider its decision.
“The end of physical discs is the end of my loyalty,” one heavily upvoted comment says.
This isn’t the first time Sony has quit social media during adversity: it took a 72-hour timeout following the disgraceful closure of Bluepoint earlier this year.
In this instance, I’m not convinced 72-hours is going to be long enough – this backlash is going to last a long, long time.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/sony-abandons-social-media-for-24-hoursplus-after-controversially-killing-physical-games
Dear Bankers and their minions!
PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive
You cannot trust digital purchases, and you cannot trust the corporations that offer them.
PlayStation has suddenly told its audience to brace themselves for an entirely physical media-free future. The news comes just days after the company unapologetically informed users it was about to permanently delete more than 550 Studio Canal-distributed movies from the PlayStation Network – and literally remove them from the accounts of any customer who previously purchased them.
It’s honestly one of the baffling corporate failures to read the room since Microsoft handed Don Mattrick a microphone and allowed him to discuss how the Xbox One probably wasn’t going to suit someone serving on a nuclear submarine. That is, PlayStation is following up a brazenly anti-consumer rugpull of digital content with fresh confirmation that ALL PlayStation content from 2028 onwards will be exclusively digital.
The timing would be hilarious if it wasn’t so appallingly offensive.
However, the facts are in, and the standard has been set: you cannot trust digital purchases, and you cannot trust the corporations that offer them.
While I maintain a library of physical games I love – and I regularly browse charity stores and my local CeX for hard copies of things I know I’ll enjoy having stashed on a shelf – allow me to qualify that I have indeed purchased and downloaded many digital games over the decades, via console and PC storefronts. Provided they always remain available to redownload – even if delisted from sale – it’s a compromise I’ve been willing to concede, for now. Credit where credit’s due, it’s been a pretty workable arrangement to date. For instance, when the disc tray on my Xbox 360 turned to dust during the production of a recent racing game retrospective I put together to celebrate IGN’s 30th anniversary, I found myself pulling down 20-year-old, long-delisted DLC on a replacement console without much fuss.
Of course, as much as I appreciate this functionality, I’m not going to celebrate it. The ability to simply re-download content we’ve purchased in the past should be a bare-minimum service. I’m not asking for content to be hand delivered to me; I’m asking for a server to be left switched on. If non-profits like the Internet Archive can do it, I’m sure commercial video game juggernauts can manage likewise.
On the flip side, I have never, ever purchased a movie digitally. My household still subscribes to several streaming services, and I’m content enough with their convenience for the time being, but my movie collection is otherwise strictly physical. Prior to entering the media industry I worked at Blockbuster Video during the transition from VHS to DVD, which is where my collection started. I’m hesitant to put a figure on its current size on the off chance that my wife reads this, but I will admit I’m… deeply nostalgic about video stores. Like, proper deeply. If I can’t visit them anymore, building one around me was the next best thing. Now I can work at IGN while still ensconced in a video store. It’s the best of both worlds.
At any rate, I’ve never had an interest in starting a digital library of movies beholden to any one vendor. I’ve just never trusted the concept. Frankly, the Studio Canal debacle on PlayStation Network is all the reason I need to ensure I never will.
https://www.ign.com/articles/playstations-physical-media-free-future-isnt-just-concerning-its-offensive
4Chan trolls UK government with another AI hamster as fines hit $800k
4Chan has continued to troll the UK government and Ofcom after they hit the website with fines of over $800,000, and they’re answering with more AI hamsters.
Over the last year, a number of governments have been cracking down on what online content can be accessed by children under the age of 18. That includes the United Kingdom, which is working on a social media ban similar to the one that Australia implemented.
The UK has implemented age safety verification checks for certain material too and has hit a number of websites with takedowns, as well as fines. 4Chan has been caught up in the latter, being issued with fines that now total over $800,000.
While Ofcom, the UK regulator, is still seeking payment from 4Chan, their lawyer has once again responded with an AI hamster.
4Chan hits back at UK government’s latest fine
“Ofcom wrote. Again. Demanding that 4chan pay its fine. Sent us bank details and everything. Oh no. Super scary. We replied with a hamster. Again,” Preston Byrne, the website’s lawyer, posted on X.
Byrne also showed off the email response he sent to the regulator. “You want money, huh? Come get it,” he started, with an AI hamster wearing a Thug Life hate being surronded by mountains of dollar bills.
“As 4Chan has no assets in the United Kingdom (given that it has no connection to the United Kingdom), that would require you to show up in a US court as a platiff, waive soreign immunity, and overcome existing U.S. doctrine regarding the non-enforcement of foreign regulatory penalties.
“We suspect that isn’t going to happen. We suspect you know it isn’t going to happen, too.”
Byrne also quoted Michael Jackson by telling Ofcom to “beat it,” before giving a quick review of the recent movie release.
The additional AI hamsters were a threat in 4Chan’s previous response, as they promised to use an “even larger rodent” next time around.
4Chan has continued to challenge the UK government, previously filing a lawsuit in U.S. federal court challenging the UK’s Online Safety Act, and calling Ofcom an “industry-funded global censorship bureau.”
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/4chan-trolls-uk-goverment-with-another-ai-hamster-as-fines-hit-800k-3382516/