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Response to open question in the .org post

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From User #3566 in https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/05/02/0037247

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An open question.

What could/should be done to prevent these shenanigans in the future?

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Your question is why I wrote this book and wrote here all of last year, so it is ironic to to me anyone even needs to ask.
https://jmichaelhudson.net/rated-soylent-comments/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
https://archive.is/FHpOa [archive.is]

And I also wrote essays and put them into a book:
https://leanpub.com/mentalselfdefense [leanpub.com]

This will warn and instruct all civilians on the depth and sophistication of efforts by various state and corporate actors to infiltrate and disintegrate all effective civilian organizations, while using their remaining air of legitimacy, even in the obvious absence of it, to endorse other tyrannical measures.

Read my comments here: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/44gq/saidit_has_the_chance_to_become_a_free_speech/ [saidit.net]

That is the way forward, I have been saying this for nearly 20 years and I am not changing my tune, everything has only further proven I was right when I got my degree in 2001. We need to accept that mediation and moderation and administration of forums is at this point not a hobby or volunteer effort, but legitimate, necessary-for-survival element of human governance, and recognize that this costs money.

Also that the people who have a billion dollars to ruin .org clearly have too much money they do not deserve, so the money is there, we just need to move it to where it will solve problems rather than create them(or build the entire internet into a tyrannical control mechanism for a tiny handful of https://archive.is/2MFbn [archive.is] to turn the world into an even worse place.

Roberts rules of order need to be updated, digitized, and secured, as do voting, or the internet is going to plunge us into a regressive dark age, which is really what is being threatened at the moment. And what spooky silver spoon jackasses like erik brooks either do not understand, or understand all too well.

I mean, he should a strong background to grasp these concepts after managing children's musical concerts, right? /s

Or you can consider the ideas of someone like myself, who was talking about this at the very beginning when people thought it would all just sort itself out somehow and we would never face a scenario where the entire world could not figure out who to trust on the matter of a pandemic.

(and the greatest enabler of computer viruses was for some reason suddenly the global authority on biological viruses...)

Meanwhile the most popular *dialogue* in the history of the world got 1 million live views for a simple conversation, and the most famous internet company is outright censoring the participants without even have to justify their actions.

And you will also notice archive.is came under attack this week for daring to make things that cannot be censored.

You tell me how far we have come, but to me it looks like backwards.

When you get stuck, you have to question your assumptions. And the entire premise of your question is just that, so maybe you should consider the ideas of people like me who have been singing the same tune from the beginning and saw all of this coming.

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  • (Score: 2) by patella.whack on Monday May 04 2020, @11:54PM (5 children)

    by patella.whack (3848) on Monday May 04 2020, @11:54PM (#990495)

    Well Insane is only the association between events that others dont agree about. Actually that's not quite true dude. there is an objective reality as far as we can know is real. Do you agree?

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  • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday May 06 2020, @09:56AM (4 children)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Wednesday May 06 2020, @09:56AM (#991015) Journal

    I believe in objective reality.

    What I find difficult to believe is that there are non-shill user accounts remaining on the internet, but I am holding onto my faith.

    Sure it could be an epic gaslight simulation, but even in that case you are not going to win a prize for going out and shouting at the sky THIS IS AN EPIC GASLIGHT SIMULATION SHOW YOURSELVES!

    Objectivity is like a line and we are the assymytotes(sp), like in calc with L'Hopital. We can all try to get closer, and together we can get close, but to ever think you achieve it is hubris.

    Read my asimov and feynman quotes at my site on the top smart quotes page,
    jmichaelhudson.net/top-smart-quotes

    That is one of the most valuable things I have even posted, further study will be rewarded. (also the info memes...which by the logs is very popular...)