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From: Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Future of online fora
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:42:28 -0400
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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".
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