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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Future of online fora
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:20:24 -0400
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:09:06 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 4/3/2025 10:58 AM, cyclintom wrote:
>> On Thu Apr 3 11:29:05 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>> On 4/3/2025 11:03 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Hmm. I just reread it a month or so ago. I thought the portrayal of Jim
>>> was too cartoonish. I also thought the ending was weak.
>>>
>>> Yes, just a subjective evaluation.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Frank, you have spent a great deal of your life being subjective. Or should I say, strongly opinionated?
>
>
>WTF??
>I consider 'strongly opinionated' to be a compliment.

I've been called "bullheaded." I took that as a compliment.

--
C'est bon
Soloman