Internet Anonymity (!)

[Kyle Weiss]

I find it ironic that people who cry out for freedom and privacy (keep your hands off my guns, too much government trying to control me) would have an issue with this because it might be used by criminals and pedophiles. Sounds like something a conservative would accuse a liberal of (hook line and sinker, suckered in by the fear and/or sympathy card). Give up your freedom for protection? How liberal and socialist!

Shoe on other foot?

Lately, as in, the last three to five years, I've noticed a much sloppier presentation of "the issues" as presented by both sides. Things that seem disturbingly similar to an issue a few years ago has now swapped bedfellows. It's also happening more quickly. Besides making the media sluts work a little harder (which they ought to anyway), it's being eaten up with the rest of the gruel served daily and with a smile by the majority of the onlookers/appreciators. To me, and perhaps a few others, it either stinks of too much comfort by the political machine realizing they've entranced everyone sufficiently and so they're not nearly as creative as they once were, or, the rats are leaving the ship, and the smart ones who left early put the controls into the hands of the strikingly average.

Take this "government shutdown" business. I've been hearing/reading talk of how both sides are at fault from more people who used to color themselves solidly red or solidly blue. I mean, it's a stupid thing to get pissed off about (these shut-downs are a ruse-play, happened in the 90s) but this sloppy/loose tactic politics is starting to stir a lot of the entranced out of their stupors.

As usual, I prefer to be surrounded by a solid mix of all walks and opinions, but not the sleepy cow-eyed followers. If things start happening, weird stuff like people agreeing that classically shouldn't/didn't, I know there's a change in the winds. Usually the smarter puppetmasters figure out a way to control and utilize such things, but something tells me a lot of them are taking a vacation; this has be more worried. Lotta scapegoats in the field.

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[Puff Daddy]

When they get everyone so confused that they can't tell friend from foe and nobody can identify, much less fight against, the issues, then the pickins get easy.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

When they get everyone so confused that they can't tell friend from foe and nobody can identify, much less fight against, the issues, then the pickins get easy.

True enough.

Then again, it also makes the situation clear and the troublemakers more pronounced. At least in theory, anyway. What "the people" will do about it is quite another matter. <img class="emojione" alt="?" title=":shrug:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/png/1f937.png?v=2.2.7"/> Change is either a violent reaction or a slow creep. People like "slow." It's like geology: once a rock, always a rock...but really, it isn't. It just slower than the eye can see. Much slower. Build a house with said rocks (or sand, concrete, other mineral composites) and all folks care about is "will my house hold together." "My lifetime" = "forever" in most people's minds. Just snapshot pictures in people's minds that are much easier to lament/get nostalgic/edit with photoshop.

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[bosun1]

Don't worry about criminals/terrorists/militias/tax evaders being anonymous. Before this "internet anonymiser" hits the shelves, the government will have the manufacturer's backdoors/master passwords dialed into the monitoring equipment. It might save you from a local divorce lawyer, but it won't save you from the Federal level of law enforcement! Just remember, the squeaking wheel gets the grease, but the nail that sticks up gets the hammer!

 

[Puff Daddy]