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== New Media ==
* [[Conservapedia]] is the conservative Christian's substitute for [[Wikipedia]], whom the site's founders criticise for its left-wing, anti-American bias. The site's take on things especially regarding evolution and other scientific subjects is so laughably bad that a number of disillusioned Conservapedians left the site [[Start My Own|to start]] [[RationalWiki]]. While RationalWiki was initially founded to throw potshots at Conservapedia, it has since become a group blog whose contributors either denounce, refute or otherwise make fun of those seen as fringe, pseudoscience or fundamentalist.
** [[Sarcasm Mode|And it gets better]]: As if their [[Cloudcuckoolander|staunch conservatism]] wasn't enough, they even had the audacity to make a "moral" substitute to [[The Bible]] which they somehow perceived as having being tainted with "liberal bias"! Called the Conservative Bible Project, it was an attempt to align the Holy Scripture to their beliefs, though it remains to be finished due to lack of editors with intimate knowledge of ancient Hebrew and Greek, and those that do know the languages were booted out for some reason. The project received criticism even from its intended conservative audience (including [[Chick Tracts|Jack Chick]] of all people) who found the idea as disgusting if not outright blasphemous.
*** There are plenty of young social conservatives too. The thing is that the 'conservative movement' as such is actually two or three different groups, with different agendas, unified primarily by opposition to the reigning social and political and economic paradigm dominated by the post-McGovern (post-1972) Democratic Party (which is itself a patchwork of New Deal/Great Society liberals and the New Left). Libertarians and conservatives are two different things, but [[Enemy Mine|they both dislike the current incarnation of the welfare state]], for example.
** And then there's [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Liberapedia], which is one part the liberal alternative to Conservapedia, and many parts over-the-top satire.
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* [[Word of God]] claims that ''[[Ultima IV]]'' (the [[Trope Codifier]] for the [[Karma Meter]]) was intended to be this to the first 3 games, after hearing the complaints of [[Moral Guardians]]. A prime example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] since said game revolutionized the RPG genre.
* Stretching the definition a little, while [[CD Projekt]]'s games are just about as edgy and mature as every other AAA blockbuster video game, the company presents its business practices as a more moral substitute to the unabashed avarice shown by the likes of [[Electronic Arts]], [[Take-Two Interactive]] and [[Ubisoft]], who were the staple of criticism for their shady business practices such as the pervasive use of microtransactions and [[Loot Boxes]], none of which were implemented by CDPR out of principle. CD Projekt even went on to proclaim "[[Take That|we leave greed to others]]" on Twitter.<ref>[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-11-19-cd-projekt-red-greed-cyberpunk-2077-multiplayer CD Projekt Red: "We leave greed to others"]</ref> Not that they weren't criticised for their labour conditions though.
* CD Projekt's sister company [[GOG.com]] is this in comparison to [[Steam]] and other content providers in that they discourage the use of DRM in favour of games released without any sort of copy protection at all, under the principle that such restrictive measures only serve to inconvenience the consumer and actually drive them into piracy. Indeed, the lack of copy protection has attracted those who are ''willing'' to buy games legitimately but are turned off by the horror stories associated with DRM.
== Web Comics ==
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** And, of course, the "side hug" is a real thing which is suggested for anyone working with children, in secular or sacred settings, in hopes to avoid anyone suggesting that there's intentional "crotch contact".
* Strictly speaking, as long as there is a moral judgment involved in what is permitted to be documented there (as was and presumably still is the case in the wake of [[The Second Google Incident]]), [[TV Tropes]] set itself up to be The Moral Substitute to any tropes wiki that does ''not'' censor its content.
* Bitchute and Gab attracted those from the alt-right due to what they perceive as "politically correct" censorship from liberal corporate-run social media sites. Stretching the "moral" definition even further was the Patreon alternative called "Hatreon" founded by right-wing extremist Cody Wilson. Contrary to claims that the site accepted "right-wing women, people of color, and transgender people," Hatreon, as the name implies, clearly caters to those sowing discord against minorities e.g. white supremacists.
* Pure Flix Entertainment, the Christian alternative to the [[Netflix]] subscription streaming service.
* While piracy is obviously a moral gray area at best, The Pirate Bay Clean (TPBCLEAN) bills itself as being a more modest alternative to torrent sites, particularly the original Pirate Bay, as most if not all of them are littered with pornographic content and ads for adult sites. There is an option to turn them off on TPB and the others, but for the most part adult content tends to be enabled by default, hence the initiative for a "family-friendly" alternative, besides the fact that most of the Indian programmers the author hired weren't up to doing work on a site that served smut.
== Western Animation ==
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