Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN users post it as a meme or satirical comment in threads about AI regulation, age verification and online identity.
Recommended by 2 people across 3 different months, 2023 to 2026.
What it is
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.
What people said
Recommends aleph_minus_one · 2025-06 · Hacker News · on “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]
Recommends normalaccess · 2025-08 · Hacker News · on “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]
Recommends normalaccess · 2026-08 · Hacker News · on “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]
Cites mgdlbp · 2023-03 · Hacker News · on “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]
Cites neets · 2023-08 · Hacker News · on “DoD Announces Establishment of Generative AI Task Force”
I think this video[1] belongs here for "context". [1] [Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version) - YouTube]( [this video] )
Cites normalaccess · 2023-10 · Hacker News · on “Biden to Issue First Regulations on Artificial Intelligence Systems”
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
Cites normalaccess · 2023-10 · Hacker News · on “Biden to Issue First Regulations on Artificial Intelligence Systems”
I’ve posted this elsewhere in this thread but the consequences of AI have HUGE knock on effects. [this video] [LINK] Once global ID is cracked then global social credit can gain some traction. Etc…
Cites aleph_minus_one · 2025-05 · Hacker News · on “Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges”
Relevant (in my opinion "deep") meme video concerning related topics: Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version) [this video]
Cites normalaccess · 2025-08 · Hacker News · on “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]
Cites amiga386 · 2026-02 · Hacker News · on “The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection”
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 Me