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From: 7 <7@no.spam>
Subject: Re: Well hello gemini
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:24:08 -0600
Message-ID: <sr5cr7$15c8$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On 1/5/22 11:11 AM, Ben wrote:
On 1/5/22 20:20, mbays@sdf.org wrote:
> if it drives people to
> usenet then I'm happy!
You like Usenet???
I know the question was not directed at me, but I will chime in anyway.
I find Usenet quite useful.
Usenet is _awesome_ compared to forums, reddit, twitter, etc. The only
thing I like more than Usenet is IRC for quicker answers.
Usenet is censorship-resistant. Hundreds of servers around the world
carry your message when you post it. All political agendas have no power
here. There is no bellicose nanny telling us what to think. Such nannies
have no power to punish us for blasphemy against the party.
Some criminally-minded people hate this. They want to rule over the
conscience of other people. So they hate public Usenet. Well, such
nannies can run their own private NNTP server and practice all the
censorship they want on their own server. Win-win!
By using filters / killfiles on public Usenet, the trolls and spammers
disappear. If you don't like someone's opinion you can just filter them
out instead of trying to murder them for blasphemy against the party.
Some of us are doing anonymous, encrypted comms on
alt.anonymous.messages. Cloak and dagger stuff abounds.
Some organizations and schools still use private Usenet servers for
business purposes. It is convenient and creates a permanent knowledge
base that is searchable and threaded.
If your message gets censored in your country there are still 200 other
countries where it sits for all the world to see.
--
Seven
Parent:
Re: Well hello gemini (by Ben <benk@tilde.team> on Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:41:51 +0330)
Start of thread:
Well hello gemini (by Kévin <usenet.m4o5b@id.oh.mg> on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:44:51 +0200)
Children:
Re: Well hello gemini (by news@zzo38computer.org.invalid on Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:47:40 -0800)
Re: Well hello gemini (by Geeknix <usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> on Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:02:59 GMT)