BenJepheneT
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I've been on the internet for way too long than I've ever needed. I've been on every spectrum; from the raunchiest of forums to the most mainstream of blue checkmarks. Hell, I've been from /pol/ to Otherkin blogs and back. With that said, I want to talk a little bit about something I've noticed regarding my experiences within those communities.
Accountability on the internet, and just how overblown everything gets.
I believe that the intersect between the unparalleled archival power of the internet and the absolute ease for ANY speech is a little bit too high for any rational standards.
Caution should be applied when interacting anywhere, yes, that I agree, but when you're given a board that you're told you're allowed to scribble on freely whilst given the ability to stay anonymous, don't lie and say you wouldn't fucking do it.
Yeah, you reap what you sow, but here's where the intersect comes in: people are making god damn mountain ranges out of ant mounds. The mountain range only persists with the eternal archive of images, screenshots, wayback pages and many other more. An event cannot be lived past and moved on, not when people seeking to exploit it have an agenda to make and they now have a pristine material that will NEVER BE LOST IN TIME, EVER.
You might not find any problems with this. "Yeah, people are getting held accountable for what they say. That's a good thing, so why are you complaining?"
You see, the problem starts to happen WHEN it starts biting you in the ass. One inside joke between friends and that's it, you're a goner. One empathetic opinion regarding a political side and you're either the most heated of Che Guevaras or cloned Hitler straight out of Musolini's cum jar.
Contexts and circumstances are there, but the internet does not do hindsight. NOOOOoooooo, it doesn't do that at all. It works purely within the current POV. It doesn't matter what's going down at the time or what the general consensus was. You could be simply going with the motions and write something down you think is utterly pointless and let it simmer for 5-6 years. Next thing you know, culture's progressed again and boom, you're on the chopping block now.
The problem is that we don't know what's next on the progress of culture. You could simply attribute this to the nature of their humanity and that they shouldn't have said that shit in the first place. But as I've said, the internet does no hindsight, INCLUDING changes of humanity. Do you think you're the same person as you were 4 years ago? Hell, I'd pay to kick my half a decade past self in the nuts.
But to the internet, 4 years is nothing. 4 years can either be a century or a week. In regards towards human nature and past actions, 4 years is barely an hour for the internet, even shorter if they're using it as a tool against you. The internet doesn't understand that with culture, human beings change as well, finding more common ground and humanity as they grow up.
So that said, with how easy it is to speak your mind out and how hard is it to utterly scrub your presence off the internet, along with our utter inability to deduce how the years will go, you can kind of see the problem right now. Accountability is given, yes, but with no compromise whatsoever. It's a social death penalty out there, all for a little action you've done in the past that's now wrong AND the good ol' pinch of simply someone seeing somebody they don't like on the internet get a boot shoved up his ass. No chances of hindsight; no chances for reflections; no chances for reviews.
If you've managed to fly under the radar until now, good on you, I genuinely think that's impressive, but if you want to walk around saying this is just a schizo me talking about schizo shit then yeah, I think that's right too. It's only bare observation on my part from what I've seen on the internet.
But on the off chance that what I'm seeing is actually true, I implore you guys: don't be like me. Keep a sanatized image, and try to apply the same mindset everywhere, even in DMs, because it may seem insignificant now, but the smallest of shards can shatter a man in whole. Shit's a 5:56 NATO round. It doesn't leave the body. It stays and festers until the hosts dies, where it remains until forcibly removed by outside influence to be served as yet another reminder of the grinder machine that is the internet archives
You might wonder why I ended a thread with a PSA than a hopeful conclusion. Well, I've learned my lesson against putting hope on internet people. I genuinely love you guys and this community, so take it as my token of appreciation: stay safe, both online and offline. I hate to see a guy fall into the blind hands of Justice, whose corpse been long desecrated by the witch burners from the olden 1700s, who instead of torches have screenshots and messages of proof, when are it really amounts to is a time capsule of a person's growth.
Accountability on the internet, and just how overblown everything gets.
I believe that the intersect between the unparalleled archival power of the internet and the absolute ease for ANY speech is a little bit too high for any rational standards.
Caution should be applied when interacting anywhere, yes, that I agree, but when you're given a board that you're told you're allowed to scribble on freely whilst given the ability to stay anonymous, don't lie and say you wouldn't fucking do it.
Yeah, you reap what you sow, but here's where the intersect comes in: people are making god damn mountain ranges out of ant mounds. The mountain range only persists with the eternal archive of images, screenshots, wayback pages and many other more. An event cannot be lived past and moved on, not when people seeking to exploit it have an agenda to make and they now have a pristine material that will NEVER BE LOST IN TIME, EVER.
You might not find any problems with this. "Yeah, people are getting held accountable for what they say. That's a good thing, so why are you complaining?"
You see, the problem starts to happen WHEN it starts biting you in the ass. One inside joke between friends and that's it, you're a goner. One empathetic opinion regarding a political side and you're either the most heated of Che Guevaras or cloned Hitler straight out of Musolini's cum jar.
Contexts and circumstances are there, but the internet does not do hindsight. NOOOOoooooo, it doesn't do that at all. It works purely within the current POV. It doesn't matter what's going down at the time or what the general consensus was. You could be simply going with the motions and write something down you think is utterly pointless and let it simmer for 5-6 years. Next thing you know, culture's progressed again and boom, you're on the chopping block now.
The problem is that we don't know what's next on the progress of culture. You could simply attribute this to the nature of their humanity and that they shouldn't have said that shit in the first place. But as I've said, the internet does no hindsight, INCLUDING changes of humanity. Do you think you're the same person as you were 4 years ago? Hell, I'd pay to kick my half a decade past self in the nuts.
But to the internet, 4 years is nothing. 4 years can either be a century or a week. In regards towards human nature and past actions, 4 years is barely an hour for the internet, even shorter if they're using it as a tool against you. The internet doesn't understand that with culture, human beings change as well, finding more common ground and humanity as they grow up.
So that said, with how easy it is to speak your mind out and how hard is it to utterly scrub your presence off the internet, along with our utter inability to deduce how the years will go, you can kind of see the problem right now. Accountability is given, yes, but with no compromise whatsoever. It's a social death penalty out there, all for a little action you've done in the past that's now wrong AND the good ol' pinch of simply someone seeing somebody they don't like on the internet get a boot shoved up his ass. No chances of hindsight; no chances for reflections; no chances for reviews.
If you've managed to fly under the radar until now, good on you, I genuinely think that's impressive, but if you want to walk around saying this is just a schizo me talking about schizo shit then yeah, I think that's right too. It's only bare observation on my part from what I've seen on the internet.
But on the off chance that what I'm seeing is actually true, I implore you guys: don't be like me. Keep a sanatized image, and try to apply the same mindset everywhere, even in DMs, because it may seem insignificant now, but the smallest of shards can shatter a man in whole. Shit's a 5:56 NATO round. It doesn't leave the body. It stays and festers until the hosts dies, where it remains until forcibly removed by outside influence to be served as yet another reminder of the grinder machine that is the internet archives
You might wonder why I ended a thread with a PSA than a hopeful conclusion. Well, I've learned my lesson against putting hope on internet people. I genuinely love you guys and this community, so take it as my token of appreciation: stay safe, both online and offline. I hate to see a guy fall into the blind hands of Justice, whose corpse been long desecrated by the witch burners from the olden 1700s, who instead of torches have screenshots and messages of proof, when are it really amounts to is a time capsule of a person's growth.
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