[FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

[Steven A Smith]

Gil -

Thanks for the reference to Anonymous at YouTube.   You can tell I'm an old 
fogey by my irritable reaction to the style of their videos.  I felt 
like it was created by/for Max Headroom!

I HAVE watched one or two before (over a year ago?) with the same 
reaction.   I have a natural (Ithink) mixed reaction to their 
bluff/threats... what was that about contacting people in Lagos, 
Nigeria?  I didn't think Anonymous were prone to threatening IRL 
violence, but rather stayed with what I think of as "targeted vandalism" 
in cyberspace?

I'm also (still) confused about how there can ever be a single true 
voice for such a by-definition amorphous and distributed and ultimately 
defined only by self-definition group?    Some aspects of their 
nature/behaviour feels a bit too much like the alt.right they are (in 
this moment) going up against.

- Steve

On 8/18/17 2:02 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote
> Anonymous has been posting videos on youtube sugesting people put 
> aside the petty bickering. Making sugestion what things people can do 
> to empower themselves. Their current call to arms is about (weirdly) 
> love and joy and getting rid of washinton as it currently is and try 
> for something like a Sociliast Republic/Technorocracy.
> They're pretty tired of the sheer rage coming in and out of washington 
> if the videos are anything to go by.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com 
> <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
>
>     “While I feel very nervous about Twitter shutting down theDonald's
>     personal account
>     so cavalierly, I can imagine how devastating it would be to his
>     ego to not be able to
>     blurt out his nonsense at all times of the day or night without
>     benefit of counsel by
>     his (admittedly highly flawed) inner circle/counsel. Moving the
>     same blurts to @POTUS
>     might be all it would achieve, which might enhance the absurdity
>     yet more?”
>
>     While I like the idea of his continued self-sabotage, his
>     pronouncements probably keep a part of the base stoked.
>
>     If his accounts were to go away, those folks might not have the
>     initiative to replace that outlet with another.   And then they
>     could get back to torturing animals or whatever it is they do all day.
>
>     The ACLU new policy to not support armed groups seems like a good
>     step.   There are other groups like the SPLC that can tackle the
>     haters.   I hope that if his rhetoric continues this way, and he
>     repeatedly violates their terms of services, that they do shut him
>     down completely.  He can go on Fox and Friends or something.
>
>     Marcus
>
>
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