On Mon, 29 May 2017 13:47:56 +0100
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 29/05/17 11:03, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> >  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*.

 Yep but fortunately for the rest of us they think internet==www.

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

 So you VPN out from under the restrictions and emerge in a saner
country.

> 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?

 I like it - well almost, the thought of a naked Donald Trump is
less than appealing.

> 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.

 Splort.

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

 Yep decentralised and uncontrollable.

> 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.

 That was tried a long time ago, it didn't succeed.

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

 Nah we can tunnel UUCP across encrypted links more easily than
using modems.

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