If you’re ‘bad’, Anon, an anarchic force for good, will find you

Aug 26, 2010 11:16 PM | By Staff Reporter

Staff Reporter: So the web is dead. It’s the talk of the town, if by “town” we mean Navelgazeville. And we do.

Michael Wolff’s article in Wired magazine (published in an edited form in these pages earlier this week), spells out the shift from an internet characterised as an equal opportunistic and anarchic web to a system of closed and tightly controlled platforms such as Facebook and iTunes.

But it’s not really dead, is it? It’s not even resting. Its fjords barely worth pining for. While closed platforms might be snowballing into the consciousness of the public at large, there remains a healthy glut of websites prospering out there, serving this need, or that. News, banking, shopping – life online hasn’t been entirely boxed and apped just yet.

And if there’s one online activity for which being a registered member of a hypereconomy such as iTunes or Facebook will never be conducive, it is the act of trolling: the ability to comment anonymously on bulletin boards, free from censure, consequence or accountability.

Anonymity is the essence of anarchy. It is the devil on democracy’s back. Civilisation’s shadow corollary. And whereas it was once confined to graffiti on the walls of Rome or the back of the lavatory door at a pub in Brixton, with the advent of the internet age, anonymity has been collecting and coalescing online – on news groups, in chat rooms, beneath news stories and on community forums until, in the random /b/ channel of 4chan.org, it transcended its own critical mass to become Anonymous – the demon god of the internet.

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We do  get the most fascinating mail here at the Odd Empire. This one was from one of our associates who thought we might be interested. At first we didn’t think much, we see letters like this all the time. But this one (remember it was not sent to the Odd Empire but to someone else) had some of MY writing on it.

Clearly this is some strange business!

And since it was of a legal nature (sort of) I woke up the Hounds of Hell to take a look. The Hounds of Hell are the legal agency of Labrusky, Skinflint, Shyster, and his larger brother Leo, once I got them to dry out for a while (they hate that)  I was able to get them to take a look, after smearing it with bacon grease first.

Works every time!

This is what they said about the letter.

Well actually the junior brother Leo said this, the rest of the firm were busy chasing rats or some other disgusting thing. I try to stay out of my legal staff’s business, it’s better that way! Anyway , here’s Leo Shyster’s take on this letter.

By the way Moonbat, this is for entertainment purposes  only (those of you who take this and yourselves WAY too seriously.)

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“First off, boss!” said Leo Shyster. “Why do you even bother with this crap? This letter is like a big steaming mass of horse manure after a rainstorm. It’s not even close to making any real assertions or even asking for any  reasonable action. Hell – Chilling Effects is full of this bullcrap.  My reaction is a big wet Bronx cheer! I mean ignore them!, they send this stuff around to scare people because they got nothing else they can do!

“Ignore them?” I said, “that’s all you have to say?

“Well yeah” said the junior parter “Now the letter itself” he continued ” it probably is from a real legal agency which spent maybe five and 3/4 minutes on this letter or whatever the hell it is.. basically it’s says, “stop using your first amendment rights or else. They know how  retarded that is and how it won’t stand up in court. They basically had this Moonbat person write the letter, then cleaned it up a little. I bet they were giggling about this around the water cooler too!  She probably paid a couple of hundred dollars for this joke.

They can’t really tell anyone what public web pages they ca’t look at or who they can contact.”  he continued.

That quote is from one of your emails boss?” he asked.

“Oh yes” I said, “Moonbat contacted me some time ago and started making a lot of crazy demands.”

“She contacted you?” asked Leo Shister.

“Uh uh!, or some automated stuff on her web page did. I was never clear about that.”

“I makes no matter,” said Leo. ” You are permitted to respond to an email, even if it sa s “never contact  me or don’t respond.” Otherwise people could send abusive emails all day long saying “don’t reply or else” and there is nothing you could do about it.  You can reply once,  but if they ask you to leave them alone you probably should. ”

“She didn’t ask, she ordered.” I said.

“Same difference,” said Leo, “just because they behave like jerks does not mean you should bug ‘em.”

“Ok, well she emailed me first! I said. “In fact she emails me whenever somebody pulls one of her stupid free sites down for TOS violations.” The last one was a doozy -

“FUCK OFF AND DIE! LEAVE MY WEBSITES ALONE!
I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!
I WILL PUT MY SITE RIGHT BACK UP AGAIN!
DO NOT TOUCH MY WEBSITES OR GET THEM SHUT DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN!
I WILL FIGHT BACK!
I HAVE FACEBOOK AND WILL SAY ABOUT YOU AS MUCH AS WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO ME
AGAIN AND AGAIN!
LEAVE MY WEBSITES ALONE! MY ATTORNEY HAS BEEN CONTACTED!”

“haha!,” said Leo, “she was pissed at you about somthen. She thinks you are stalking her though, are you?”

“Of course not,” I said, ” I do have  clipping services watching her and watching a number of key words. Other than that I don’t pay much attention to her.”

“Well, she can’t stop you from using the passive-fu ” said Leo.”  She can ask you to stop looking at her shit, but she cannot enforce such a request.  She could block you if she could figure out your IP. Anything else? Are you really bugging her house?”

“Of course not!” I said. “She publishes a lot of personal stuff and other people have told me about phone conversations with her. Apparently she’s kind of a blabbermouth. ” And besides “I said,” she’s got a history of thinking her home is bugged, look at this forum post from 2006. She’s talking about some other fellow. This is long before I ever herd of her.

“One question: How the hell did he know what was discussedin a private phone conversation between myself and mycousin a few nights ago? I sure as hell did not sayanything about this on this forum or any other?Also what right did he have to post our pics to any placeon the internet without our express written or oral consent.”

“That’s not the only example, “I continued. ” whenever she feels threatened by somebody she starts saying that they are following her around and spying on phone calls etc.

“Well, anyway,” said Leo Shyster. “She sent it to the wrong person AND she got their address wrong, I don’t think there is a “Fargo Florida” is there?

“Actually there is,” I said,  but I don’t think the person she sent it to lives there. ” It rhymes with Fargo.

“OK,” Said Leo, ” so you have a letter saying basically , I demand you allow me to control your behavior on the Internet, and stop communicating with  unknown persons. And while your at it, take information about me off of unknown web pages.  It got sent to the wrong person at the wrong address! Then she also sends it to some “head of Information”services where this person presumably works as an attempt to harass? ” Am I getting that about right?

“That’s about it,
what do you think? ” I asked.

“Brrrrrippppp!!” said Leo. “Fuck em!”

Leslie Kean on Colbert Report

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eceti/message/5352

Colbert really established his character and wisdom concerning UFOs and
Disclosure in the interview with Leslie Kean who held her own despite what
looked like a hatchet job. She is a seasoned and professional investigative
reporter. I am seeing everyone jump on the bandwagon now to establish
credibility with the mainstream press. Many ufologists are saying we are not
saying they are aliens they are back-engineered UFOs built by our own black
projects. Guess what, back engineering UFOS means they got their hands on ALIEN
SHIPS. This makes it a mute point as to whether some of the ships are alien, off
world or inner Earth technologies.

Newsflash the mainstream press has no credibility. The politicians are right
behind them and how does one become credible by being accepted by those with a
long track record of no credibility? Where is the logic? Why wait for a
government with a long track record of disinformation and lies to tell us the
truth? Seriously reason this, why get approval from liars and thieves, those
with a long history of covering up ufos? My other question is with the
disinformation, misinformation, and infiltration into the UFO community how can
one wade through all the nonsense to make any sense of the enigma? The program
is keep it in the past, far, far away some distant ambiguous light, or make it
threatening and fearful. There is also keep the question unanswered, leave it
hanging till the next show.

God forbid we have the answer, have had the answer for years and years yet those
with the answer are censored because the good old boys club does not want to be
usurped. Why not stand your ground, we know there are alien ships along with the
back-engineered alien ship. Why let those who are ignorant and lacking in
character bully you into not standing up for what you believe!

n case you haven’t heard — and c’mon, do you live in some underground cavern with Morlocks and C.H.U.D.S.? — my new TV show “Phil Plait’s Bad Universe” premieres this Sunday night August 29, at 10:00 p.m. on the Discovery Channel (check your local listings; for me it’s on at 8:00).
This first episode is about saving the world from asteroid impacts. In most science TV shows on this topic they’re heavy on the death and destruction, but pretty light on what we can actually do about them. But if you’ve read my book Death from the Skies! you know I’m all about getting off our collective butts and doing something. So in “Bad Universe” we go step-by-step, looking into what can be done to keep an impact from ruining our whole day.

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Sleep well sweet prince! Keep looking up!

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