[Chapter-delegates] The Internet Society on the Wikileaks issue

[Christian de Larrinaga]

One observation that comes to mind is we are now in the third or even fourth generation of idiocies. Each generation defines failure in much the way you describe and then find out that having ignored good advice they fail to achieve their goals. But in the process they ratchet up some more piss poor legislation and international obligations that come round to bite the next generation of hard nuts in the proverbials and in the meantime reduce security and cause all sorts of collateral damage. 

Deciding to ignore them is not so much a failure of philosophy as  a philosophy of failure. But it is wearisome to see the same old mistakes being made by people with the same old haircuts coming out of the woodwork in the same old way and then disappearing into the same old ratholes to be replaced by clones without a sense of their same old history. 


Christian  




On 9 Dec 2010, at 11:32, Fred Baker wrote:

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> On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:
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>> The issue of domain seizures is also being discussed in the UK at the instigation of SOCA (Serious and Organised Crime Agency)
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> I doubt that philosophical discussions with people bent on doing idiotic things like this will be very helpful. They tend to lump people into one of two sets: those that help them achieve their goals and those who don't. Like the Internet, they tend to roll their eyes and route around people they deem failures.
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> You might, however, point them too http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120804038.html. Some people have to learn for themselves, and reading the usual outcome of such cases might at least give them the opportunity to make the mistake in a different way.
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