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alex jones being sued
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2018-08-06 at 8:28 PM UTC
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2018-08-06 at 8:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Yes it is. Because before the Net came, nobody had any way to warn about the Thought Police coming. I mean, you could write letters to random people, but…
Well you said the 70s...not many people on "the net" (which really didn't exist then either in the modern sense) back then either.
So no, not really relevant if a couple of nerds got the warning about the thought police from a 3rd nerd. -
2018-08-06 at 8:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Well you said the 70s…not many people on "the net" (which really didn't exist then either in the modern sense) back then either.
So no, not really relevant if a couple of nerds got the warning about the thought police from a 3rd nerd.
Sorry. Wrong. I should know, because I was there.
"Commercial systems, expressly intended to offer these features to the public, became available in the late 1970s and formed the online service market that lasted into the 1990s. One particularly influential example was PLATO, which had thousands of users by the late 1970s, many of whom used the messaging and chat room features of the system in the same way that would become common on BBSes."
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2018-08-06 at 9:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ensign §m£ÂgØL America is one of the only places with true free speech in the world yet people buy into this alex jones bullshit and think their rights are being taken away. Nobody in the history of America has ever been sent to jail for having/expressing an opinion
They have certainly faced legal repercussions for the way in which it has been said though. Not that this is a recent development or anything, but you may have heard of a little thing called the FCC? Government mandated censorship under penalty of legally enforceable fine is a reality, you [poorly dubbed replacement for a curseword].
And of course it was the Dumbocrats who formed the FCC.
They've been gradually stripping free speech rights for almost 100 years!
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2018-08-06 at 9:15 PM UTCThis is the very first Bulletin Board System... PLATO (Programmed-Logic-for-Automatic-Teaching-Operations). I was on it.
Long before Facebook's and Google's founders were born, and before Microsoft and Apple were founded. Before Xerox PARC. Before the Web. AOL. Bulletin boards and CompuServe. Before the Internet. Long before MOOCs (massively open online courses). Before pretty much everything we take for granted today, there was the PLATO system: home of not only computer-based education but, surprisingly, the first online community, and the original incubator for social computing: instant messaging, chat rooms, message forums, the world's first online newspaper, interactive fiction, emoticons, animations, virtual goods and virtual economies, a thriving developer community, MUDs (multi-user dungeons), personal publishing, screen savers. PLATO is where flat-panel gas plasma displays come from, and was one of the first systems with touch panels built-in to the screen. Countless other innovations…
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2018-08-06 at 9:19 PM UTCThe dumbocraps also created the first FFA (federal firearms act) in the same year that they created the FCC (1934). Dumbocraps have been taking a protracted, hundred year shit on the constitution.
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2018-08-07 at 12:14 AM UTCBill Krozby is evidence that the water is making the frogs gay.
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2018-08-07 at 4:31 AM UTC
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2018-08-07 at 12:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Sorry. Wrong. I should know, because I was there.
"Commercial systems, expressly intended to offer these features to the public, became available in the late 1970s and formed the online service market that lasted into the 1990s. One particularly influential example was PLATO, which had thousands of users by the late 1970s, many of whom used the messaging and chat room features of the system in the same way that would become common on BBSes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
That's not 'The net'...and it certainly wasn't mass market...lololol (note thousands of users vs billions)... -
2018-08-07 at 1:20 PM UTC
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2018-08-07 at 1:22 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Still, we've been warning people since the '70's these tyrannical Thought Police were on the way, and now they're here, just like we said they would be.
Sending the letters out would have reached more people back in the 70s...a few nerds talking on mostly unknown bbs that 99.99999% of the world population didn't even know existed doesn't equate to "warning people". -
2018-08-07 at 1:23 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Sending the letters out would have reached more people back in the 70s…a few nerds talking on mostly unknown bbs that 99.99999% of the world population didn't even know existed doesn't equate to "warning people".
We told one person, and they told three. That's how it worked back then. -
2018-08-07 at 1:31 PM UTCToo busy playing Space War on the mainframe no doubt.
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