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Re: OT: Green Xenon's Idea of an Internet Cafe

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From: GreenXenon
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:18
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On Mar 4, 5:25 pm, Greegor <greego...@gmail.com> wrote:


> GX > Each PC has a dial-up controller-based
> GX > [i.e. purely-hardware] modem.


> Who the hell wants the low speed of dial up internet?


The PCs in this cafe are like text terminals. Where is the need for
anything faster than MPSK-based dial up?


> GX > with an additional zing of anonymity
> GX > to write whatever you want in chat rooms.
> GX > What more could any warm-hearted,
> GX > compassionate, fair, vulnerable outcast
> GX > -- like me and many other geeks -- ask for?


> Your business model would be based
> on sociopaths and psychopaths?


No, it would be based on warm-hearted, compassionate, nerdy
individuals [like me] who want to punish society for its deplorable
acts against psychiatric patients -- such a me.


> > You're right. I won't change society and I don't plan to. I just want
> > to psychologically-scar my enemies to their very cores. I would like
> > to do this by writing extremely explicit text in chat rooms. The stuff
> > I'd like to write is so lewd, perverse, deviant, taboo, and
> > unacceptable by the norms of society, that it will elicit an
> > emotionally-charged and violent reaction from readers.


> Yet you claim it would be completely legal.


By current legislation it is. I can write pretty much whatever I
please so long as I'm not making any criminal-threats.


> > Please note that I gain *no* pleasure, humor, or happiness from doing
> > the above. I would, however, obtain a temporary but significant
> > decrease in my frustration and anger against society.
>
> > If I continually punish society via my textual attacks, I'm curious as
> > to what will happen.
>
> > My guess is that the media will get involved and there will be mass
> > societal outrage. The streets will be filled with furious puritanical
> > buttholes who will violently protest, throw rocks, pelt stones, and
> > start fires. How cool!
>
> > People in the chat rooms will go crazy. They'll start marching on the
> > streets and violently protesting. They will demand that the government
> > make new laws. New laws rendering the socially-unacceptable stuff I
> > write illegal. These people will form lynch mobs forcing the enactment
> > of new legislations and draconian penalties against the stuff I'd like
> > to write in chat rooms [which currently don't violate any law].
>
> > Am I right?
>
> > Currently that stuff I'd like to write in chat rooms is totally-legal.
> > However, laws can change and that is not good for me.


> So apparently you would want to close down freedom
> of speech, even though you apparently want free speech.
>
> And you've realized that what you propose is self-defeating for you.
>
> So WHY do something that bites YOU in the ass?


So long as I'm anonymous enough, it doesn't matter if society
eliminates freedom of speech.

With the level of anonymity this hypothetical cafe provides, the cost
of tracking me down would be astronomical. Sure it's possible, but any
rational figure of authority would save their time, energy, and money
taking a bite out of crimes that really matter.


> > Using this hypothetical chat cafe, I can write dirty filthy sick
> > things in chat rooms that would otherwise get me into a LOT of trouble
> > with society and its evil puritans.


> Yet you said it's all perfectly legal.
> Doubtful.


Right now, it is perfectly-legal but I'd like to prepare for when new
legislation is passed -- possibly rendering my speeches illegal.
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