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It never ceases to disturb me when an individual expresses pride in censoring something legal out of existence. This isn't an isolated case either, there are nu

by tjpnz 3y ago

It never ceases to disturb me when an individual expresses pride in censoring something legal out of existence. This isn't an isolated case either, there are numerous individuals, deserving of even less sympathy, engaged in the gleeful destruction of the web and net neutrality.

joenot443 3y ago
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- Hizonner 3y ago
  No, that's not fair. They're almost never in it for the money. The people who orchestrate this stuff are exploiters who look for people who've been hurt by some experience, and use them to further their political causes and perhaps their careers. Usually, by looking for people who've been hurt, these exploiters of course end up finding the people who are, at least at some particular time and place, most susceptible to being hurt by such an experience. So they end up with extreme cases. I guess you could say the people they recruit are "weak willed", but that's both unproductive and mostly wrong. It makes it sound like they're profoundly different from everybody else, and they're not. People's reactions to experiences are conditional on all kinds of things. You can be "weak willed" one day and not on another. And if you think you're unconditionally "strong willed", you're probably deluding yourself. Anyway, the exploiters groom the victims they find into feeling more hurt, into self-perpetuating obsessions over it, and into usually-not-very-productive ways of trying to deal with those. They increase both their sense of victimization and their actual victimhood, and they work to amplify the whole thing until it's life-consuming. They encourage the victims to believe they can get vindication and "closure" by filing lawsuits, or by putting on a show for the media or in front of legislators, or whatever else is convenient. Maybe the worst part is that the exploiters mostly don't even realize they're exploiters. And many of them started out as victims themselves.

by tjpnz 3y ago

joenot443 3y ago

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Hizonner 3y ago
No, that's not fair. They're almost never in it for the money. The people who orchestrate this stuff are exploiters who look for people who've been hurt by some experience, and use them to further their political causes and perhaps their careers. Usually, by looking for people who've been hurt, these exploiters of course end up finding the people who are, at least at some particular time and place, most susceptible to being hurt by such an experience. So they end up with extreme cases. I guess you could say the people they recruit are "weak willed", but that's both unproductive and mostly wrong. It makes it sound like they're profoundly different from everybody else, and they're not. People's reactions to experiences are conditional on all kinds of things. You can be "weak willed" one day and not on another. And if you think you're unconditionally "strong willed", you're probably deluding yourself. Anyway, the exploiters groom the victims they find into feeling more hurt, into self-perpetuating obsessions over it, and into usually-not-very-productive ways of trying to deal with those. They increase both their sense of victimization and their actual victimhood, and they work to amplify the whole thing until it's life-consuming. They encourage the victims to believe they can get vindication and "closure" by filing lawsuits, or by putting on a show for the media or in front of legislators, or whatever else is convenient. Maybe the worst part is that the exploiters mostly don't even realize they're exploiters. And many of them started out as victims themselves.