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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Future of online fora
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:44:40 -0400
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:17:29 -0400, Radey Shouman
<shouman@comcast.net> wrote:

>John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:42:28 -0400, Radey Shouman
>> <shouman@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 4/3/2025 9:54 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:12:46 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The forum LFGSS (London Fixed Gear and Single Speed) is
>>>>>> among the early casualties of The Planners in the UK nanny
>>>>>> state.  Under the well invoked principle, "Everyone ought
>>>>>> to, because I say so", newly enacted internet regulation
>>>>>> makes online providers fully responsible for online content
>>>>>> including purported crimes of "revenge [whether personal or
>>>>>> by class], extreme pornography, sex trafficking, harassment,
>>>>>> coercive or controlling behavior and stalking."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since interpretation of those can be highly subjective* and
>>>>>> in light of the huge volume of content, every word of which
>>>>>> is a possible offense, providers such as Microcosm, who
>>>>>> wrote the popular group forum software, have deleted all
>>>>>> activity and more have followed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *c.f. plentiful examples of the last three right here on
>>>>>> RBT. Or not. That's the nature of subjective evaluation.
>>>>> A week or so ago I read a notice that both Tom Sawyer and Alice in
>>>>> Wonderland had been blacklisted by some group or another.
>>>>> Alice for the term "evil witch" or something similar.
>>>>> As for Tom I can only assume that any reference of the Civil war
>>>>> will
>>>>> soon be unmentionable in polite society.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, there's that.  And a greater loss, which is the nearly complete
>>>> obliteration of Huckleberry Finn, a far superior volume to the forced
>>>> and anemic Tom Sawyer.  It's among the most powerful anti racism works
>>>> ever published, but it's been banned in schools for decades.
>>>
>>>Long before the current moral panic, _Huckleberry Finn_ was a
>>>problematic due to its arc to the famous line "All right then, I'll go
>>>to Hell".
>>
>> But that is the point when he decides to do what he believes to be
>> right rather then be governed by laws and customs, isn't it?
>
>Exactly.  Is that the message we want to send to impressionable children?

yes it is.

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C'est bon
Soloman