From the time that the Desteni Message
was Placed on the Internet we have been Attacked by Cyberbullies and
Trolls, and as we have pointed out throughout the years – which is more
than 7-8 years now – the Abuse in this World is Based on the so-called
Idea of ‘Free Choice’ and that this Free Choice Idea is also Allowing
the Abuse to take place. And as We Warned, the Consequences of This Abuse will Increase and this one can now see emerging from the news as more and more – especially Children – are Affected by this and Some even Commit Suicide.
Some of the Cyber-Trolls that Attack Desteni
have Also been Linked to Suicides of people like for instance the Cult
Forum and although We have Done everything Possible to take action,
they’re Hidden in Internet Service Providers that Protect ‘Free Choice’
therefore, Protect Abuse.
We have been attacked by These Trolls and Through the Lies they spread, and the Misinformation they spread and the Fear
they spread they’ve managed to get YouTube to Close our Channels.
Interestingly enough the Message from YouTube said that “We will Not
Explain Why we Closed it.” But at the same time have a Look, Internet Sites like Ask.fm which are Extremely Abusive are Allowed
to Exist and Who makes it Possible but the Corporations and the
Advertisers, and the same with Cyberbullies and Troll sites like the
Cult Forum – they Get Funding through Advertising And probably Other
Means because there are No Ways one can continue with a Constant Barrage
of Lies and Deception to Create an Idea that Apparently what You’re doing has Value without Having some Funding.
Now, it is going to be Imperative that the Internet becomes a Facility, a
Mechanism where People are Protected from Trolls and Cyberbullies,
where there is Accountability – this is Inevitable: We have to Take this
Step.
Free Choice is Not the Freedom to Abuse – Free Choice is the Ability to Make a Choice to Experience yourself in Different Ways Without Abusing Another, Without Generating Fear in the Life
of another. This situation is Not going to Get Better until We actually
get to a point where the Internet Becomes a Zone of Accountability. And
therefore Join Us, as We will be Pushing for such Accountability
because as long as the ‘Big Boys’ like Google and YouTube Allow Trolls
and Cyberbullying, and They Do Not Stand Accountable = We will Have a
Problem. There are Double Standards and it’s all about The Profit and
the Money, there is No Consideration and No Actual Free Choice Unless there is Profit it seems.
So the Journey is going to be a little bit Difficult and there will be
Consequences as there has Already Been, Unfortunate Consequences: people
that will Lose their Loved
ones that were Exposed to Cyberbullying simply because the Full Might
of Technology which is something that can Actually Keep Track of
everything and Ensure that No such Bullying
is taking place is Not being Used under the Disguise of so called
‘Privacy Laws.’ There can be No Privacy as long as there are People that
are Exposed to Cyberbullies and Trolls – they are the very Reason, the
very Motivation that will Drive Humanity to Make the Internet Accountable. And Unfortunately Politicians,
they Do Not Lead, they’ll only Act if they are Forced to Act by the
Voters – so they claim – instead of Having Accountability and Taking
Action, Bringing an End to things like Porn, Trolling, Cyberbullying even Bullying at Schools.
We will be Escalating our Exposure of Cyberbullying and Trolling and Our
Commitment to Make the Internet a Safe Place for All so that the World can Become a Better Place.
So as You become Aware
of Cyberbullies and Trolls: Expose them, Do Not Remain Silent, it is
Your Silence that is Allowing this Abuse. Yes, they will Attack You like
They’ve been Attacking Us because We Refused to Remain Silent, but We
will Not Remain in Silence.
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Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Day 345: The Internet is the Global Mind (Part Four)
For context from the previous post:
If You are Able to Write Stuff Down, You have Made ‘that which you Write’ and you are Making ‘That Which you Write’ the Physical Flesh, the Self that You are. And therefore, more and more, that will Manifest in your Life, until you Completely Become these Words.
Therefore, when Jesus said ‘Put a Guard In Front of your Mouth’ - he obviously meant (as a lot of people at that time couldn’t write), that - when you Place a Word, make sure you Place the Words in a Context that you are ‘Willing to Become,’ because you are the Living Word. So, Make Sure in your Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions, Writing, Laws, in the Way you Exist, in your Relationships that: whatever you’re doing is What’s Best. Because: You’re going to Become What You Write. So if it’s Nasty and Abusive = it’s going to have an Effect on everything and Whatever You Support, You’ll Become. Everyone knows this.
A Parent knows this Well. They know it ‘Best’. A Parent will say: “Your Friends Define you and therefore, you must Choose your Friends Well”. Now, your ‘Greatest Friends’ are Your Words. They are Closest to You. Your Truest Friends are the Friends you Have when you are Alone in your Room Thinking, because Those Thoughts that come up: they are the Truth about You, Revealed as the ‘Friends’. Because you are ‘Friendly’ with those Words, with those Thoughts and what you are Willing to Write.
This is Why the Internet became a Necessity: to Reveal to Each One Who they Really Are. If you Claim you’re doing it because “You’re Paid to do it, it’s your Job” (paid by Government or a Corporation to say Nasty things about others) that ‘apparently’ “Is Not Really You”…You Have Another thing Coming, as that takes Quite some ‘Level’ of Pathological Disharmony, within. The Consequences of that, in Creating Different Personalities within your Flesh, will get to a point where you Cannot Correct it, Schizophrenia will be ‘Who You Are’ as you will be Completely one person in one moment and another in another moment. The ‘James Bond Movies’, Spy movies and Hollywood plays a Very big role in Creating Schizophrenia and then the Internet takes it to its Ultimate Expression.
All you have to Do, whenever you look at anything in the Global Mind, is to Assess the Relationships within which the Context of the Words are placed: Is it What is Best for All Life on Earth – or not – and according to that, you can Establish, with Great Clarity, Whom to Trust and Whom Not.
That is why we build a ‘Lengthy’ series of published works at Desteni, at the Destonians, the Journey to Life and EQAFE - so that You Have the One point of Evidence which is Standing above all: whether a person can remain Consistent within their Application of What is Best for All Life, day in / day out, day-after-day.
I would Assess a Person according to their Written Word over a lengthy period of Time and according to that You know Exactly Who you are Working with. If you are One that do not have Self Honesty, that means you Do Not Apply/Live, in your Life, a Principle to Look at What is Best for All and to Do What’s Best for All – the principle of Compassion, Empathy, Integrity; then: You will Not Assess a Person’s Words and you’ll take words only in the context of How it will Support your Psychological Dysfunction, your Self Interest, how it Supports the Very Abuse you’re Living Yourself. In a way, this is Appropriate, because each one Walking through the Global Mind is going to End up Having to Face what they have Allowed within this ‘Free for All’ apparent Society of the Internet. They’re going to have to Face it in their Real Lives.
Do You Understand What you are Allowing within a System of Inequality? You’re Giving That Inequality, in All Ways, Equal-Rights through ‘Freedom of Speech’, which means: You are giving the Nasty Shit Equal Value to the Good Shit, expecting that the Nasty stuff is ‘Not going to Happen’ - It’ll be on Your Doorstep. Whatever you Accept and Allow you are Part of/ Responsible for and Thus Accountable. Call it your Karmic Mirror. You’re going to See and Learn, through your Own Experiences in your World, what this Freedom Really Cost.
We’ll continue with the Global Mind in the Next Post
If You are Able to Write Stuff Down, You have Made ‘that which you Write’ and you are Making ‘That Which you Write’ the Physical Flesh, the Self that You are. And therefore, more and more, that will Manifest in your Life, until you Completely Become these Words.
Therefore, when Jesus said ‘Put a Guard In Front of your Mouth’ - he obviously meant (as a lot of people at that time couldn’t write), that - when you Place a Word, make sure you Place the Words in a Context that you are ‘Willing to Become,’ because you are the Living Word. So, Make Sure in your Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions, Writing, Laws, in the Way you Exist, in your Relationships that: whatever you’re doing is What’s Best. Because: You’re going to Become What You Write. So if it’s Nasty and Abusive = it’s going to have an Effect on everything and Whatever You Support, You’ll Become. Everyone knows this.
A Parent knows this Well. They know it ‘Best’. A Parent will say: “Your Friends Define you and therefore, you must Choose your Friends Well”. Now, your ‘Greatest Friends’ are Your Words. They are Closest to You. Your Truest Friends are the Friends you Have when you are Alone in your Room Thinking, because Those Thoughts that come up: they are the Truth about You, Revealed as the ‘Friends’. Because you are ‘Friendly’ with those Words, with those Thoughts and what you are Willing to Write.
This is Why the Internet became a Necessity: to Reveal to Each One Who they Really Are. If you Claim you’re doing it because “You’re Paid to do it, it’s your Job” (paid by Government or a Corporation to say Nasty things about others) that ‘apparently’ “Is Not Really You”…You Have Another thing Coming, as that takes Quite some ‘Level’ of Pathological Disharmony, within. The Consequences of that, in Creating Different Personalities within your Flesh, will get to a point where you Cannot Correct it, Schizophrenia will be ‘Who You Are’ as you will be Completely one person in one moment and another in another moment. The ‘James Bond Movies’, Spy movies and Hollywood plays a Very big role in Creating Schizophrenia and then the Internet takes it to its Ultimate Expression.
All you have to Do, whenever you look at anything in the Global Mind, is to Assess the Relationships within which the Context of the Words are placed: Is it What is Best for All Life on Earth – or not – and according to that, you can Establish, with Great Clarity, Whom to Trust and Whom Not.
That is why we build a ‘Lengthy’ series of published works at Desteni, at the Destonians, the Journey to Life and EQAFE - so that You Have the One point of Evidence which is Standing above all: whether a person can remain Consistent within their Application of What is Best for All Life, day in / day out, day-after-day.
I would Assess a Person according to their Written Word over a lengthy period of Time and according to that You know Exactly Who you are Working with. If you are One that do not have Self Honesty, that means you Do Not Apply/Live, in your Life, a Principle to Look at What is Best for All and to Do What’s Best for All – the principle of Compassion, Empathy, Integrity; then: You will Not Assess a Person’s Words and you’ll take words only in the context of How it will Support your Psychological Dysfunction, your Self Interest, how it Supports the Very Abuse you’re Living Yourself. In a way, this is Appropriate, because each one Walking through the Global Mind is going to End up Having to Face what they have Allowed within this ‘Free for All’ apparent Society of the Internet. They’re going to have to Face it in their Real Lives.
Do You Understand What you are Allowing within a System of Inequality? You’re Giving That Inequality, in All Ways, Equal-Rights through ‘Freedom of Speech’, which means: You are giving the Nasty Shit Equal Value to the Good Shit, expecting that the Nasty stuff is ‘Not going to Happen’ - It’ll be on Your Doorstep. Whatever you Accept and Allow you are Part of/ Responsible for and Thus Accountable. Call it your Karmic Mirror. You’re going to See and Learn, through your Own Experiences in your World, what this Freedom Really Cost.
We’ll continue with the Global Mind in the Next Post
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Sunday, 31 March 2013
Day 342: The Internet is the Global Mind (Part 1)
We are now looking at ‘the Oneness of Mankind’ and as Globalization takes place, the Internet developed as the Global Mind of the Body of Humanity. Within and as the Internet, you can See What you See in the Human Mind. For example, what plays a ‘Big Role’ in the Human Mind is Sex/Porn, so you’ll see a Vast part of the Internet is the Exploitation of Each other through Sexual Abuse. Porn, in essence, is Sexual Abuse as it Only Exist because people Make Money
out of it, the others are So Desperate that they have No other way of
making money and some are purely just Greedy and want to Make a lot of
Money.
You will also see that Discourse on the Internet Proves a fascinating thing: Those that claim to be Intellectuals, those that have ‘Pieces of Paper’ saying they have ‘Academic Degrees’ - are simply just as Nasty and Intolerant as the average human being is in their mind. There is No Difference to the Content of the Mind, no matter what your Education – so, Integrity and Standing in Reality is Not Determined by a ‘Piece of Paper.’
Those that have got ‘Pieces of Paper’ now, are Basing their Knowledge on people who invented the ideas (/knowledge and information) that Didn’t have ‘Pieces of Paper’ when this all started. So, the ‘Piece of Paper’ in itself has No Foundation in anything and it is Producing only a world that in No Way is What is Best for All. So, Never allow yourself to be Intimidated by a ‘Piece of Paper’. It is certainly not Peace of Mind, because ‘Peace of Mind’ would mean that: You can Co-Exist with your Fellow Human Being and Other Life Forms on Earth Without Causing anyone Harm - by Producing a System that’s Best for All. Those with ‘Pieces of Paper’ cannot do so, because they have specifically been Educated with Filters to Create the Current Global Society where the 1% Controls everything and the 99% are Slaves. To Ensure that the Slavery continues, it is of great Importance to them that the Internet becomes a place of ‘Ugly/ Vile Human Thought,’ because as long as the Human Thinks: the Human is Lost and In Complete Control of Whomsoever has the ability to Drive their Paranoia. This has been Demonstrated. We have Demonstrated to the group, very Effectively, the extent of the Problem that is Faced in the Global Mind. The tools for dealing with this Global Mind is very simplistic: you Insert the Correction, you Engage and then you Disengage - and you Let the Virus Eat Away at the Madness of the Mind and Those that believe that they apparently have ‘Some Value’ within their so-called ‘Energetic Body.’ (For reference/context of this process/demonstration by the group – we suggest reading DAY 328 – DAY 332)
The Attempt that will be Made through the Global Mind is (and to some extent they’ve been trying that already), to Create ‘The Soul of the Human’ as a form of ‘Freedom,’ ‘Freedom of Speech’ - Pretending that, somehow, by having ‘Absolute Freedom,’ just like ‘Absolute Free Markets’: it’s all just going to Magically ‘Come Together and Get Better’, ‘Take care of Everyone’ and it will trickle down to everyone… You can have a Look and if you Study this, you will Notice that is, In Fact, Not what is Happening.
In Fact, the Desperation of the World Economic System has now made All Social Media ‘gathering places,’ where everyone is desperately trying to Invent the ‘Next big thing’ to Make a Living. Instead of creating a System that just Solves all of this like the Equal Money System, everybody is trying to ‘Make a Life’ on the Internet. Now, let me tell you: It’s Not going to Work! You are Not going to make Money on the Internet. Have a look at the next stage of this Globalization and the Mind that Moves into particular Control. Remember the Problem of the Human, which is: Convenience, “Please Don’t Inconvenience me”. Therefore, the Human will follow the Corporation, because they have the Structure and Design to Make Sure that you Get What You Want without any Inconvenience. Anything else where you have to Support another Human so that They Also can ‘make a living’, will mean you have to ‘Inconvenience Yourself’ and you are Sure as Hell Not going to Do That…
Not to Worry, the Global Poverty is going to rise, and rise, and rise…strange enough, at this stage, you’re still going to say: “That’s OK, because I have a Hope, I can find another way, I am an Entrepreneur, I will use the Entrepreneurial Spirit!” Now your ‘Entrepreneurial Spirit’ is going to be based on your Savings and you’re going to Dump all your savings into your ‘Business Ventures’…a Few will make it, but Most Won’t. The Many that Won’t make it will Not Say a Word, because you will be Too Embarrassed, you’ll be ‘Out of Pocket’, you’ll be ‘Too Poor’ to Speak up and you’ll feel like a Failure and a Loser, you’ll Give up Hope, you’ll be Hopeless - not realizing you were Without Hope from the beginning. You’ll feel Powerless, because you’ll realize ‘You Have No Way Out’…
Yes, You Have a Way out! You have to Change. When you have only Change left in your pockets = that is the only time you’re going to start considering Change…that is So Sad.
In the Meantime, the World is going to continue. One will be able to Survive by doing Manual Labor, which was the Intent of Globalization anyway: to Create as Many Slaves as Possible, to Make Sure that Those with Money are Not Inconvenienced, because ‘they are Superior’, they made it Possible for Everything in the World to be ‘Cheap’ and Available for Everyone ‘If You have Money.’ So, if You don’t Have Money, you have to Work, because the ‘Good Book’ says: “By the sweat of your brow, you’ll earn your keep/living.”
Unfortunately, until you Realize that You Do have the Power Politically, Constitutionally and Legally - in fact, under the very Constitution of Creation, You Were Given Life Equal. Unless you Honor Life Equality, also in everyone else, obviously: You will Not be Honored as Life Equal and therefore, you Hold the Key to a Solution on Earth.
The Internet is the Global Mind (Part 2) to continue in the Next Post
You will also see that Discourse on the Internet Proves a fascinating thing: Those that claim to be Intellectuals, those that have ‘Pieces of Paper’ saying they have ‘Academic Degrees’ - are simply just as Nasty and Intolerant as the average human being is in their mind. There is No Difference to the Content of the Mind, no matter what your Education – so, Integrity and Standing in Reality is Not Determined by a ‘Piece of Paper.’
Those that have got ‘Pieces of Paper’ now, are Basing their Knowledge on people who invented the ideas (/knowledge and information) that Didn’t have ‘Pieces of Paper’ when this all started. So, the ‘Piece of Paper’ in itself has No Foundation in anything and it is Producing only a world that in No Way is What is Best for All. So, Never allow yourself to be Intimidated by a ‘Piece of Paper’. It is certainly not Peace of Mind, because ‘Peace of Mind’ would mean that: You can Co-Exist with your Fellow Human Being and Other Life Forms on Earth Without Causing anyone Harm - by Producing a System that’s Best for All. Those with ‘Pieces of Paper’ cannot do so, because they have specifically been Educated with Filters to Create the Current Global Society where the 1% Controls everything and the 99% are Slaves. To Ensure that the Slavery continues, it is of great Importance to them that the Internet becomes a place of ‘Ugly/ Vile Human Thought,’ because as long as the Human Thinks: the Human is Lost and In Complete Control of Whomsoever has the ability to Drive their Paranoia. This has been Demonstrated. We have Demonstrated to the group, very Effectively, the extent of the Problem that is Faced in the Global Mind. The tools for dealing with this Global Mind is very simplistic: you Insert the Correction, you Engage and then you Disengage - and you Let the Virus Eat Away at the Madness of the Mind and Those that believe that they apparently have ‘Some Value’ within their so-called ‘Energetic Body.’ (For reference/context of this process/demonstration by the group – we suggest reading DAY 328 – DAY 332)
The Attempt that will be Made through the Global Mind is (and to some extent they’ve been trying that already), to Create ‘The Soul of the Human’ as a form of ‘Freedom,’ ‘Freedom of Speech’ - Pretending that, somehow, by having ‘Absolute Freedom,’ just like ‘Absolute Free Markets’: it’s all just going to Magically ‘Come Together and Get Better’, ‘Take care of Everyone’ and it will trickle down to everyone… You can have a Look and if you Study this, you will Notice that is, In Fact, Not what is Happening.
In Fact, the Desperation of the World Economic System has now made All Social Media ‘gathering places,’ where everyone is desperately trying to Invent the ‘Next big thing’ to Make a Living. Instead of creating a System that just Solves all of this like the Equal Money System, everybody is trying to ‘Make a Life’ on the Internet. Now, let me tell you: It’s Not going to Work! You are Not going to make Money on the Internet. Have a look at the next stage of this Globalization and the Mind that Moves into particular Control. Remember the Problem of the Human, which is: Convenience, “Please Don’t Inconvenience me”. Therefore, the Human will follow the Corporation, because they have the Structure and Design to Make Sure that you Get What You Want without any Inconvenience. Anything else where you have to Support another Human so that They Also can ‘make a living’, will mean you have to ‘Inconvenience Yourself’ and you are Sure as Hell Not going to Do That…
Not to Worry, the Global Poverty is going to rise, and rise, and rise…strange enough, at this stage, you’re still going to say: “That’s OK, because I have a Hope, I can find another way, I am an Entrepreneur, I will use the Entrepreneurial Spirit!” Now your ‘Entrepreneurial Spirit’ is going to be based on your Savings and you’re going to Dump all your savings into your ‘Business Ventures’…a Few will make it, but Most Won’t. The Many that Won’t make it will Not Say a Word, because you will be Too Embarrassed, you’ll be ‘Out of Pocket’, you’ll be ‘Too Poor’ to Speak up and you’ll feel like a Failure and a Loser, you’ll Give up Hope, you’ll be Hopeless - not realizing you were Without Hope from the beginning. You’ll feel Powerless, because you’ll realize ‘You Have No Way Out’…
Yes, You Have a Way out! You have to Change. When you have only Change left in your pockets = that is the only time you’re going to start considering Change…that is So Sad.
In the Meantime, the World is going to continue. One will be able to Survive by doing Manual Labor, which was the Intent of Globalization anyway: to Create as Many Slaves as Possible, to Make Sure that Those with Money are Not Inconvenienced, because ‘they are Superior’, they made it Possible for Everything in the World to be ‘Cheap’ and Available for Everyone ‘If You have Money.’ So, if You don’t Have Money, you have to Work, because the ‘Good Book’ says: “By the sweat of your brow, you’ll earn your keep/living.”
Unfortunately, until you Realize that You Do have the Power Politically, Constitutionally and Legally - in fact, under the very Constitution of Creation, You Were Given Life Equal. Unless you Honor Life Equality, also in everyone else, obviously: You will Not be Honored as Life Equal and therefore, you Hold the Key to a Solution on Earth.
The Internet is the Global Mind (Part 2) to continue in the Next Post
Monday, 14 January 2013
Day 272: Cyberspace – Hiding Place for Very Sick Minds
In the Natal Mercury of Monday, January 14, 2013
– Robert Fisk wrote an Article on Page 6 with the Heading: “Cyberspace
is the hiding place of some very sick minds”. What Prompted him to write
this Article, is because he was Exposed to Lots of Online Abuse
that was Directed at his Article about the Middle East in 2013. The
type of Abuse, Verbatim, is the same type of Abuse that has been
Directed at myself and other Desteni-Members.
I quote Robert Fisk: “But something is going wrong here. Surely this is not what the Internet is for? Across the world now, anonymity - the bane of every newspaper letters editor – is accepted by cyber-journalism, the more hateful, the more understandable. I’ve pulled out of several radio “chat” shows in mid-broadcast because of the absolute refusal of the anchors to explain why they will not challenge the sometimes viciously named Tweeters or e-mail writers. Websites and blogs and chat rooms were never intended to cover the Breivik-like cruelties of these sick people.
Former US diplomat Christopher Hill, a man whose views normally make me cringe – he was ambassador to Iraq, special envoy to Kosovo and a Dayton negotiator – has observed these dangers.
“Instant access to information does not mean instant access to knowledge, much less wisdom,” he wrote recently.
“In the past, information was integrated with experience. Today, it is integrated with emotion…
“Digital technology has played an important role in fostering this atmosphere of bad manners, vicious personal attacks, intolerance, disrespect…Bullying has gone virtual.”
Just before Christmas, an Irish minister of state, Sean McEntee, committed suicide after receiving a load of online hate-mail. At his funeral, his brother Gerry was applauded when he attacked social media: “Shame on you people, you faceless cowards who sent him horrible messages on the website and on text, shame on you.” (Fisk, 2013: 6)
I further quote Robert Fisk: “So let me go now to Irish journalist John Waters, who last year complained about the “disproportionate venom of online commentary” and the way bloggers resort to “pre-civilisational forms of communication”. (Fisk, 2013: 6)
And, I quote: “So what to do? Online comments are often factually wrong, but anonymity allowed writers to use vulgar and abusive language to support their lies. They often fail what has been called “the quality test” – rigorously applied, for example, when newspaper editors refuse to publish letters without a name and some form of address. We are talking about verifiable comment.
Anonymity on the net is as pathetic as the anonymous “sources” that have contaminated the gutless journalism of the New York Times or CNN or the BBC for decades. And the innocent must be able to seek redress in cyberspace as well as in print. Poison-pen letters are illegal in the UK. So are offensive electronic messages, if the Malicious Communications Act of 1988 is to be believed. So why should we be forced to drink poison on the net?” (Fisk, 2013: 6)
We will be dissecting these Poisonous Minds in the Next Blog and Consider the Validity and Value of Anonymity. Can an Anonymous Person - Ever have a Valid point of view? Because, you can’t Find them to Credit them anyway. So, should we not Outright, simply Ignore, whomsoever is Anonymous. Because, for all Practical Purposes: they Have No Accountability or Actual Value to Contribute.
Bibliography:
Robert Fisk. 2013. Cyberspace is the hiding place of some very sick minds. The Mercury. 14 January: 6.
I quote Robert Fisk: “But something is going wrong here. Surely this is not what the Internet is for? Across the world now, anonymity - the bane of every newspaper letters editor – is accepted by cyber-journalism, the more hateful, the more understandable. I’ve pulled out of several radio “chat” shows in mid-broadcast because of the absolute refusal of the anchors to explain why they will not challenge the sometimes viciously named Tweeters or e-mail writers. Websites and blogs and chat rooms were never intended to cover the Breivik-like cruelties of these sick people.
Former US diplomat Christopher Hill, a man whose views normally make me cringe – he was ambassador to Iraq, special envoy to Kosovo and a Dayton negotiator – has observed these dangers.
“Instant access to information does not mean instant access to knowledge, much less wisdom,” he wrote recently.
“In the past, information was integrated with experience. Today, it is integrated with emotion…
“Digital technology has played an important role in fostering this atmosphere of bad manners, vicious personal attacks, intolerance, disrespect…Bullying has gone virtual.”
Just before Christmas, an Irish minister of state, Sean McEntee, committed suicide after receiving a load of online hate-mail. At his funeral, his brother Gerry was applauded when he attacked social media: “Shame on you people, you faceless cowards who sent him horrible messages on the website and on text, shame on you.” (Fisk, 2013: 6)
I further quote Robert Fisk: “So let me go now to Irish journalist John Waters, who last year complained about the “disproportionate venom of online commentary” and the way bloggers resort to “pre-civilisational forms of communication”. (Fisk, 2013: 6)
And, I quote: “So what to do? Online comments are often factually wrong, but anonymity allowed writers to use vulgar and abusive language to support their lies. They often fail what has been called “the quality test” – rigorously applied, for example, when newspaper editors refuse to publish letters without a name and some form of address. We are talking about verifiable comment.
Anonymity on the net is as pathetic as the anonymous “sources” that have contaminated the gutless journalism of the New York Times or CNN or the BBC for decades. And the innocent must be able to seek redress in cyberspace as well as in print. Poison-pen letters are illegal in the UK. So are offensive electronic messages, if the Malicious Communications Act of 1988 is to be believed. So why should we be forced to drink poison on the net?” (Fisk, 2013: 6)
We will be dissecting these Poisonous Minds in the Next Blog and Consider the Validity and Value of Anonymity. Can an Anonymous Person - Ever have a Valid point of view? Because, you can’t Find them to Credit them anyway. So, should we not Outright, simply Ignore, whomsoever is Anonymous. Because, for all Practical Purposes: they Have No Accountability or Actual Value to Contribute.
Bibliography:
Robert Fisk. 2013. Cyberspace is the hiding place of some very sick minds. The Mercury. 14 January: 6.
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