On 10/27/2015 11:55 PM, odinn wrote:
What we are seeing is the collective dissolving of backbone of online societies; it may be subconscious or it may even be intentional ~ in the end, it doesn't matter: It's happening.
As above (real world) so below (cyber-world)' Psychopaths with agendas rise to the top of the 'food chain' and destroy the host society, or at least the element of that society that doesn't subscribe to that agenda. In political organizing this often happens when involvement is at a nadir and the psychopaths commandeer the organization by otherwise legitimate means. I don't know who the owner of the Cypherpunks list is but I understand it IS NOT moderated, so anyone who keeps a filter list of people they consider 'undesirable posters' is free to do so, and keep their fuck fuck fucking (for those who keep a 'fuck' counter) problem to themselves. Personally, compared to other lists I'm involved with, I see no mean-spirited trolling or intentionall disruption of threads here. Just free form discussion that 'ranges'. RR