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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Future of online fora Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:20:24 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <7j7tujt1qqsjncjl13c5saoujqjk5d6sra@4ax.com> <7fyHP.1382494$FVcd.1046440@fx10.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:20:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b98ce06d7ea8806727f33438d62168be"; logging-data="1501426"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19dwy2uV9DlzyVMoysG9ngbGOJ4TGEhREI=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0v//TrRpsp6hscj1XeFKz8mRATg= Bytes: 3561 On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:09:06 -0500, AMuzi 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 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