On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 19:29, Al Billings wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2014, at 3:11 PM, J.M. Porup <j...@porup.com> wrote: > > > The goal is to ensure the survival not of conformity or trivia, but of > > dissent. > > Whose goal?
Those of us who do not wish to see an end to art, to science, to all meaningful colloquy. > > > A purge is coming. First of data, then of users. Distributed, decentralized > > data will survive. Users in countries hostile to American interests will > > (hopefully) also survive. > > /me puts on tinfoil hat. "Just imagine, Wiesenthal, that you were arriving in New York, and the people asked you, “How was it in those German concentration camps? What did they do to you?” [. . .] You would tell the truth to the people in America. That’s right. And you know what would happen, Wiesenthal? [. . .] They wouldn’t believe you. They’d say you were crazy. Might even put you into a madhouse." SS-Rottenführer Merz speaking to Simon Wiesenthal, September, 1944 Heil America, Jens -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
