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.
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2023 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends aleph_minus_one · 2025-06 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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]