Re: Note - ISP Screwed Up - Can WRITE But Not SEE

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

If you want to go global you can always join Fidonet. Still around, kind of like a less known usenet. I do think it is more of a hassle to become a Fidonet member though. It seems to me that peering with a usenet provider is easier to setup than fidonet which is a bit more administrative and cumbersome.

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 Ahh - I remember FIDOnet ! It's kinda like usenet ... keeps
 a local copy and then forwards to all peers. Haven't looked
 at it for ages though. Not even sure how to get at it ...

Easy! Here you go:
http://www.fidonet.org/

 Again though the "liability" issue for un-PC content. It's
 sort of a prob in the USA but a much bigger prob in the EU
 and beyond. As said, such a system needs to be located in
 a who-knows/cares-country where it's hard to get at legally.

 In europe I would not worry about it at all.

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 Huh ??? LOOK at their pogroms against Musk and Goog
 and a bunch of others for "un-PC" material !!!
 The Thought Police have a comfy home and real police
 powers in the EU. You can be ARRESTED for wrong-thinking.
 You'd think Russia took over the whole place in 1945.
 It's a horrible embarrassment for the 'free world'.

As I said in another message, I am talking about usenet. If we are talking about
facebook and the mainstream, I agree with you. If we are talking about usenet,
I, living in europe, am not worried at all.
The first time I'll read about a usenetter being arrested for saying negro in a
newsgroup, _then_ I'll worry about it.
If you are the type of person to worry about the letter of the law, and if you
_potentially_ might get arrested for doing something, europe is not for you.
There are so many bullsh*t laws, regulations, rules and procedures in europe,
that you are always breaking the law in some way.
That is why I use the media to gauge the danger level, when I should start to
worry.
But this is not only for people, it goes for companies as well. I don't even
know how many regulations I am breaking with my company. I should probably have
a gender plan, an environmental analysis, an anti-discrimination plan etc. etc.
but since it is b.s. I simply don't care. If someone should mention it, I'll ask
chat gpt to generate some nonsense. Chatgpt is good at generating nonsense, so
from that point of view it is a great and mighty time saver! =D
I actually did that for a customer that was very woke. They wanted to fulfill
every single regulation. They are not doing well, and I managed to last 3 years.
;)

First of all, no one in power even knows what usenet is, so no one will ever look. Second, most of the nasty stuff can easily be blocked or filtered. Third, the responsibility of the post is the posters and not yours (at least in my jurisdiction). At _worst_ your responsibility is to remove the content from your servers, if asked. Otherwise, nothing to worry about.

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 "Survival through obscurity" sometimes works - but
 sometimes doesn't. Just takes ONE little witch-
 hunter looking for a promotion to expose a dreaded
 case of Unregulated Thoughts .......

This is the truth!