On 29/05/17 11:03, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2017 10:15:04 +0100
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> No. The internet was designed to link military command and control
>> computers and survive a nuclear attack.
>>
>> Then it was designed to link universities and research institutes to
>> facilitate academic research. Enter the world wide web
>>
>> After that it was designed to disseminate porn and other consumer
>> products, as well as being a business communication technology.
>>
>> Finally once discovered by the Great Stupid it is being transformed into
>> another controlled channel  of mainstream propaganda.
>>
>> As you have noted.
>
>  The great thing is that it still does all of the above.
>
But for how much longer?
The political  bait and switch consist of getting you to agree, for the
best possible motives and most moral reasons that *content and beahviour
on the internet must be regulated*.

And of course its your friendly government that will do it on your
behalf. For your own good.

And the next thing you know is that Kim Yong-Corbyn is running the
country with a resurrected Blair Zombie, and hate speech is defined as
anybody who dares criticise what they are doing. Etc.

Do you know I was thrown of a US site in the Bush era for stating
jokingly that the best way to have real democracy in the USA was to have
the president stand up naked with no bodyguards once a day in a public
place? And if no one shot him he was probably doing something people wanted?

Some idiot contacted  the secret service and they contacted the site
owner saying that this comprised a Threat Against The Presidents Life,
so he reluctantly emailed me saying he had to ban me.

I mean, really.

I also got banned from a newspaper blog for saying that women were just
as likely to want to open their legs as men were to want to open them.

So against current feminist thinking was this, that I had to invent a
new identity all over again.

I like Usenet. Its so old that we can still say 'fuck' here and no one
notices.

Contrary opinions are settled by proper flame wars, followups to
alt.flame, and by good old killfiles.

God help us if they ever stick their puritanical noses in here.

We would have to break out those old modems and go back to UUCP.



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