[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote in
 <46ef2037-41cb-1735-fdc9-9bca3a3eb930 at meetinghouse.net>:
 |So now big folks, like Google, just implement things like DMARC, 
 |unilaterally; or stop supporting calendaring standards - and break the 
 |Internet big time.  And then, there's the Great Firewall of China.

India recently cut-off some not so small parts of their country
from the internet due to deadly ethnic riots (there).  This
happens all the time.  And let me say: necessarily, and it is
right.  I would consider keeping my child away from at least
english wikipedia main page, for example, due to all the totally
biased, and yes, let me say it, brainwashing with "correct"
statements, until you look in detaul: a child should be lead to
the century old historic context, to learn about the respect that
is due, instead of having to read the garbage that is vomitted
onto main pages due to today's (more than questionable) political
desires -- of the U.S., in this example.

 |Remember when interoperability was a thing, and a design goal 
 |approaching a mandate.  Now we're going back to walled gardens. Sigh...
 |</rant>

Child locks are not hundred percent secure.  Oh, and how i would
have become outraged to find myself in such a lock as a child.
(Despite the normal "nationally-agreed-in" census that is
everywhere, or, like the German superstar Herbert Grönemeyer sang
hm about 40 years ago, "wir werden dosiert zensiert [, Menschen
achtlos diffamiert]", "we are dosedly censored [, humans
carelessly defamed]".  That was ~15 years before his wife died,
resulting in his mostly human album "Mensch", "Human"; 'and still
remembering Sir Paul McCartney's famous Cavern Club performance,
.. December 1999?  Around the same time.)

The Chinese now want to incur maximum internet usage time for
children.  I think two hours for 16/17 year old, and about 40
Minutes for younger-than-ten, iirc.  Parents can do something
about this.  Many parents would still claim this is too much!
I would rather reread Simone de Beauvoir's memoirs, they shall
live in and eat dense worlds that evaluated over real lifetime
(books).  And "hear that crack" Simone is talking about.

Sometimes throats gets slipped!
I am more concerned about invisible firewalls that are silently
agreed with in very large extent, and "bullshitted further upon"
even, building upon that

  I believe the perception caused by civilian casualties is one of
  the most dangerous enemies we face.

of US-General Stanley A. McCrystal.  I recently read again the
"four dragons by the mekong", a really good book that truly
strives for (some) context and tries to shed light on all sides,
of the wonderful  german journalist Winfried Scharlau, i wish
someone like him would still be present.
I think the time has come to swing the pendulum back, it has swung
so long and so far in one direction, after the "open journalism"
of the Vietnam war, which of course was also short-sighted,
uninformed, hyping false understandings etc.

So if there is only a mob of zombies that hysterically screams
"meat!" and runs for it, no matter what, then i think something
has to be done.  Yes.  As long as truth shines through.  This is
even Christian.  1. Mose 5:3, Adam seems to have grown to 930
years.  Things are worse in my German translation of the Quran,
you only can look high to get through the translators comments :),
so i am following Rainer-Maria Rilke's conclusion that the islam
is a "religion of the undisguised space", of pure creature
feeling: earth can be perceived as a "pure star": "creatureliness
of the earth can appear pure and undisguised".

The religions, as far as i can tell, and as many as i know, do not
think it is easy, and that it can be gained fast.
I think they are right.
So whereas techically i am all in favour of what you say on
interoperability, (i personally even think there are too many
standards, and that it all shall be minimized: nothing against
young man or some sophisticated man/woman striving to reach
a target, and gaining some "fame", but then it shall be good;
there are things more important than working 60-90 hours a week,
one day it comes out as just an addiction of a "horse running
away" (Germany lost Martin Walser last week iirc)), i do not think
you can compare commercial walled gardens with walls incurred by
some "higher" principle.  You may now be of an opinion on the
"quality" of that "higher principle", and want "freedom".
You (especially as the hard-core US american i see you as) may be
right, but i personally have great doubts, also, and especially,
when looking at the state of our planet, and the responsibility
that "freedom" accounts on that.
One thing is plain: the sheer number of lies and shortcutted
contexts, and "blankings", regarding several of todays conflicts,
seems to support my point of view.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)