Re: Future of online fora

On 4/3/2025 10:54 AM, John B. wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:12:46 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

The forum LFGSS (London Fixed Gear and Single Speed) is
among the early casualties of The Planners in the UK nanny
state.  Under the well invoked principle, "Everyone ought
to, because I say so", newly enacted internet regulation
makes online providers fully responsible for online content
including purported crimes of "revenge [whether personal or
by class], extreme pornography, sex trafficking, harassment,
coercive or controlling behavior and stalking."
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Since interpretation of those can be highly subjective* and
in light of the huge volume of content, every word of which
is a possible offense, providers such as Microcosm, who
wrote the popular group forum software, have deleted all
activity and more have followed.
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*c.f. plentiful examples of the last three right here on
RBT. Or not. That's the nature of subjective evaluation.

 A week or so ago I read a notice that both Tom Sawyer and Alice in
Wonderland had been blacklisted by some group or another.
 Alice for the term "evil witch" or something similar.
 As for Tom I can only assume that any reference of the Civil war will
soon be unmentionable in polite society.

I once lived in a state where one did not talk about the "Civil War." Instead, it was called "The War of Northern Aggression."
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- Frank Krygowski