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Internet forums and such were places where people could anonymously come together and express their views candidly and as bluntly as possible without fear of judgment, without need for social propriety and without the care of social castigation. True, honest opinions about issues without a filter that allowed for honest, open discussions free from the burdens and the restraints of civil society. That was the promise and the premise of such open and anonymous forums . Sadly, these days that has become an elusive effervescent dream that is often denied openly or otherwise accompanied by a tome of corollaries! Such travesty is the fate of an “open” “anonymous” “debate”!
This is ALL due to the psychopathic need and obscene obsession with “politically” correct speak. The kind of trivial and superficial banality that plagues actual conversation in real life and that is a the devil’s vehicle to obfuscate and detract from one’s true self-expression of ill intentions and negative feelings. The logic of this pathological obsession for ‘decorum’ and polite propriety utterly escapes me! What in high heavens is the blessed point of having “ANONYMITY” when all what you are saying is going to be judged and weighed against you! The sick obsession with PC and decorum by sites like You tube and the people who champion for the cause of stifling everything unpleasant because it offends somebody are the reason for the warped culture of fake tolerance and condescending civility. Words will always offend somebody, opinions and ideas often do! Be they racist, sexist, homophobic, etc etc. It is only a matter of degree of offense. Hate is part of human emotions, it is only natural that when people communicate their opinions/ideas/views they will communicate their HATE as well. Trying to prevent it and cover it up is unnatural and in no way can it that be said to be the “true” expression of thoughts and opinions. The champions of propriety and decorum fail to realize that in the 6 billion odd humans on this planet nearly all of them have differing opinions of what ideas and opinions are repugnant and reprehensible to them and what is acceptable. You cant force people to stifle their opinions and ideas deemed “repugnant”; even those deemed so by the majority, by laws made by politicians, bureaucrats, dictators and the like for the sake of maintaining some veneer of “kum-ba-ya” and the facade of civility and culture. The reasons for the base attitudes of people are always neglected and instead condescension and condemnation are the tools of the holier than thou Politically Correct Nazis who set out to deem what is “acceptable” and what isnt. These are the NAZIs who want everybody to think like them and talk like them and have their philosophy because they think it is superior and more worthy according to their moral bias! Just like the thousands of despots and demagogues of the past who try to push their psychopathic agendas by suppressing the opinions of all that contradicts them. Its obscene that people who claim to be furthering the liberties of one group are too myopic to comprehend that you cant suppress liberties of a few to further the cause of liberty for all!
It is said that “The road to hell is paved in good intentions”, if so they have already laid the first mile to the HELL that is, regulated and monitored expression on the internet- the last bastion of free souls!
