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[Gabe Stanton <overthefalls AT opengroupware.ch>]

Very well said. Thank you

On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 04:45 -0500, postmaster wrote:
> Its not off-topic, and I am going to explain why.
> 
> 1., With social media the concept of "self-publishing" was created, 
> people are chasing "likes", high number of "followers", Youtube 
> "citizens journalists", etc.. This is true, and this is the base 
> frequency of our technological civilization today, and for the 
> foreseeable future.
> 2., None of this, however, necessarily equals validation,
> effectiveness, 
> approval, necessity. On the contrary, it creates a humongous amount
> of 
> garbage, and I mean just mountains of useless content.
> 3., The "anonymous" and the classic "troll', or "attention whore" is
> now 
> one and the same.
>    a) These trolls get involved in absolutely everything - not just
> the 
> issues which affects them. This is ignorance.
>    b) The less they know about something the more they comment,
> judge, 
> lash out. This is stupidity.
>    c) The less control they have over something the angrier they get
> - 
> like politics. This is obsession.
> 
> Spending hours each day on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (Global
> Social 
> Media), reading and writing about things you do not understand,
> things 
> not affecting your own life in the slightest, things which are not
> part 
> of your job, your hobbies - is now mass addiction and a disease.
> Masses 
> of fools circling each other, jabbing and arguing... masses of 
> like-minded people echoing, chattering about things they all
> agree... 
> This is Global Social Media.
> 
> This is kept going by Main Stream Media, owned by multi-
> billionaires. 
> Those people / organizations do not need more money, they are never 
> going to run out of money - their businesses keep generating
> millions 
> each hour! Instead what they need is an ignorant and indoctrinated 
> population, a corrupt form of Government like Socialism where they -
> as 
> individuals or organizations - may remain above the law.
> 
> The Elites (corrupt politicians, business moguls, celebrities,
> decadent 
> educators) hate the Constitutional Republic of the USA, they hate
> free 
> speech, they know millions of guns in hundreds of thousands of hands
> is 
> a problem. So they try to destroy our core values, and dumb the 
> intellect.
>    a) Moderation and Censorship are two very different thing: one is 
> voluntary within the community, the other is enforced by an external 
> authority
>    b) Right to Privacy is not the same as Mandatory Anonymity.
> Preventing 
> you from using your true identity while you speak or write on a
> public 
> forum is indeed censorship!
>    c) Anonymous have no rights in any court of law! Anonymous maybe 
> freely abused or killed, ignored, discredited, overpowered,
> ridiculed. 
> Only real people have rights!
> 
> I could go on, and on, and on - but these are not off-topic by the 
> slightest. We must be able to create and sustain networks which are:
>    a) Secure so nobody external to the community may read, alter or
> spoof 
> content in storage or during transmission.
>    d) Privilege-accessed, moderated by the community, and access to
> it 
> denied to business, political, or even regulatory entities. Exception
> is 
> law enforcement with a search warrant.
>    c) Retains local focus by moderation for quality contribution, by 
> privilege access, by laser-sharp focus and purpose.
> 
> The OpenNIC TLDs and zones are going to provide precisely that! I am 
> working with the Republican Party to create a communication network,
> and 
> I need thousands of zones, mirroring the official political structure
> of 
> the USA - precincts, townships, districts, counties, states. I am
> not 
> going to build this over InterNIC TLDS - just look what is happening 
> with .ORG! I am not going route email over Yahoo, Gmail - kidding
> me?! I 
> am going to build this over OpenNIC infrastructure, allowing / 
> encouraging the use of encryption on all levels.
> 
> OpenNIC have a mission-critical purpose in my mind, which is to keep
> the 
> anonymous-troll zombie army and their handlers out! I am going to do
> my 
> best to help strengthen and stabilize the OpenNIC infrastructure,
> for 
> the purpose I just wrote above.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Sandor
> 
> 
> On 2020-03-18 19:00, 3 wrote:
> > Hi postmaster, 19.03.2020 0:54:44 you wrote:
> > > I know this first hand, I was born in Hungary in 1968, but I live
> > > in 
> > > the
> > > USA since 1989.
> > > OpenNIC, DANE, and all other pieces of infrastructure to create a
> > > user-controlled network is my #1 priority in life.
> > > I do not have a formal training, but I spend all my efforts to
> > > train
> > > myself.
> > > This is more important to me than anything else right now.
> > > With Trump we got a few years break, but the multi-billionaire-
> > > owned
> > > technology and media tyrants are going to wreck our civilization
> > > and
> > > societies.
> > > My only hope is this not going to happen in my lifetime, and I
> > > want to
> > > help our future generations to hold onto Liberty a little longer.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Sandor
> > 
> > **sorry for the offtopic, but i have long wanted to say this to
> > someone
> > from usa ;)
> > 
> > i don't understand why Trump is being scolded. yes, he doesn't seem
> > very smart, but he's doing what he promised. living in russia where
> > politicians have always lied i would trade a lying Putin for a not
> > very smart Trump ;) when Madonna promises blowjobs to those who
> > won't
> > vote for Trump, and then accuses Trump of treating women like
> > whores(whores who don't even keep their promises ;)), i understand
> > that in relation to some Trump is right :\ people are afraid that
> > Trump will unleash a nuclear war, but they forget that even closer
> > to
> > this was Kennedy, who unlike Trump, everyone loved. i can call more
> > that looks different from the outside, but of course i don't well
> > know
> > what's going on in the usa. but in my life(i'm not much younger
> > than
> > you), i've learned one thing: in every conflict the parties are
> > worthy
> > of each other. if there are bad people on one side there are no
> > good
> > people on the other side, they just have different reasons to be
> > like
> > this
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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