What motivates Americans to act
Jul. 28th, 2011 02:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neonvincentHere's something inspired by this thread on the most recent LJ is down post on JournalFen. People there are counting their blessings that U.S. LJ users are so far not calling for SUP to suspend accounts of Russian users who are being targeted. In particular, lied_ohne_worte wrote about the last DDoS:
Yes, I recall suggestions to just put everything Russian on it own servers, so that everyone else can enjoy fandom in peace. LJ going after fanart: ZOMG FREEDOM OF SPEECH! Political bloggers under a not-exactly democratic regime being attacked, and LJ actually preserving their freedom of speech: ZOMG WHY CAN'T YOU SUSPEND THEIR ACCOUNTS!?!My response:
I figured out something a while ago and posted it in a comment to a Huffington Post article on Dancing with the Stars. “America is quite clear about its screwed up priorities. My experience has convinced me that the surest way to get Americans to act is to mess with their entertainment." Google says my insight wasn't original. In a letter preserved in a blog post copy of a Paul Krugman New York Times article,# Paul Box, Alice Springs, Australia observed, "Mess with people's health care or retirement and they get fatalistic. Mess with their entertainment or Internet access, and you've got war!" LJ down is messing with both enertainment and internet access, so no wonder the U.S. users are grumpy.*That was in 2007. I swear that I never saw it before and came up with my opinion independently. Second!
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Date: 2011-07-28 07:35 am (UTC)I would never support suspending the accounts of those being targeted. That would be "negotiating with terrorists", something I am vehemently opposed to *cough*Anonymous/LulzSec*cough*.
I would, however, support US users on US servers, and RU users on RU servers. If nothing else, it's good load balancing. They have a right to have their accounts, but the rest of the userbase has a right to peaceful enjoyment of the services we paid for.
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Date: 2011-07-28 01:25 pm (UTC)~M~
..seriously, I don't think will end until SUP divests itself of LJ..and maybe not even then..there would still RU/LJ's..
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Date: 2011-07-28 05:43 pm (UTC)Alice Springs?
As for Anonymous, check out the icon. No, I don't hang out on 4Chan; that place is a sewer and I'm saying that as someone who has been on USENET for 20 years. On the other hand, I still have an account on whyweprotest.
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Date: 2011-07-28 08:43 pm (UTC)Alice Springs?
"Detroit: where the weak are killed and eaten."
:)
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Date: 2011-07-29 03:59 am (UTC)