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2022-09-05 / \/ \/ / \
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I'm on holiday and having a really wild / _/ / /
time, it's been an interesting trip and our \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
first with our daughter TDK, but for the / \/ \/ / \
last couple days my eyes have been glued to / _/ /_ _/
my phone and it's been pretty shitty news. /- / _/ /
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A war between two ideologies is raging on
the Internet, it's been going for some time but has recently escalated again
and this time it's especially violent. I know I shouldn't watch but I can't
look away.
I don't say it lightly when I say the Internet is my home. when I was young
I never fit in, I was always different from the people around me, barely
connected with the kids I grew up with, had no father figures, and it wasn't
until I found places online that I filled those gaps in my life. I found my
friends, my wife, I had access to things that engaged and excited me and I
found people to guide me to be a better person.
This is why I love the Internet so much and this is why I believe the
Internet needs to be protected.
Yesterday I deleted my hackers.town account - I removed myself from a place
that I genuinely loved because it was the only voice I had loud enough to
express the hurt I felt. Some people will say I "took my ball and went home",
maybe I did, but to me I sat in the streets of New Cyberia and self-immolated.
I burned while the people around me cavorted and capered in celebration of a
victory as hollow and gaudy as a Dollar Store Christmas ornament.
There is a wound in the Internet and two tribes hack at it in the name of
their kings and their gods and their beliefs and it makes me sick to my
stomach, levelling the ugliest, meanest tactics at each other based on the
flimsiest shittiest intel.
B4UDW3RK5 utterly disavows anyone who would choose escalation over
discussion, B4UDW3RK5 utterly disavows anyone who would choose hostility over
treaty and B4UDW3RK5 utterly disavows anyone who would jeopardize the Internet
for the sake of corporate profit, histrionic weirdos or mean-spirited
cyberbullies.
B4UDW3RK5 will welcome any refugees from this hateful exchange but
B4UDW3RK5 will not let their war cross our borders.
