Rob E Dangerously 0 Report post Posted October 1, 2002 From WhatReallyHappened.com: "The sheer offensiveness of the spammed porn calls attention to itself. The last time there was a huge surge on internet porn being spammed into inappropriate places and sent to people who did not want it, the "pornademic" was a run-up to a Congressional demand for more censorship and control over the internet via the "Exon/Coats Amendment" in 1995. No sooner had the amendment been passed then, like a switch, the porn spammers stopped. They might as well have glued neon signs to their heads blinking. "I am a government operative trying to justify more control of the internet." Right now the US Government is looking for ways to silence the internet. The paid public relations shills have failed to control the online debate on the war and the US Government well knows that the massive anti-war protests and phone-call campaigns were organized on the net. The next step short of outright shut-down is to discredit the internet as a haven of perverts and criminals, and it is no coincidence that as the internet becomes the high ground in the war for the minds of America that the mainstream media and government are mounting a smear campaign against the direst threat to their information monopoly. Given that the recent spate of pro-Israel spam directed at opponents of the war contained links to porno sites, it is a sure bet that 90% of this sudden increase in really raunchy and gross porn is part of a US Government disinfo operation to trick people into leaving the internet and going back to the mainstream media for their daily dose of propaganda." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DrTom Report post Posted October 1, 2002 Rob, please post the full URL for the site. It's whatreallyhappenedifyoureamentalmidgetintobadconspiracytheories.com Just a PSA. Carry on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest J*ingus Report post Posted October 1, 2002 Whatreallyhappened is one of the most blatantly offensive websites I've ever seen, taking real events and real people and then claiming that they're all just some sort of huge conspiracy to fuck over people like themselves. I Dissected one of their idiot theories, "The Bumble Planes", it's about a dozen or so pages back down in General. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rob E Dangerously 0 Report post Posted October 1, 2002 What strikes me as weird is that, according to this theory, CapHillBlue and Wired are posting articles on the internet to discredit the internet. I'd think guys like him discredit the net more than some of the junk that is part of the 'conspiracy' to do so. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest J*ingus Report post Posted October 1, 2002 Ah, found it. The thing that gets me about conspiracy nuts is how they INSIST that they are right, and everyone else is an ignorant dupe at best, if not a willing participant in the EVIL CONSPIRACY~! without being able to even admit the possibility that they might be wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MarvinisaLunatic Report post Posted October 2, 2002 Ive always believed that the Government would love to find a way to censor the internet. I mean, there are some really good reasons why (child porn, how to build bombs etc.) they should. But the main reason why they have been unsuccessful is because of the worldwide nature of the internet. The internet is unlike any other news medium in the U.S. because the government has some form of regulation on them (FCC for instance) but they really don't have any regulation on Internet Content besides pornography which is getting hit by First Amendment supporters left and right. I don't agree that the government is behind these spam emails, I would be more inclined to believe that they come from some other organization. But I do believe that at some point, the Government will get regulatory control over the content that Americans can access on the internet. I dont know how (probably some sort of blocking software at the ISP itself, similar to what China is trying to do) but Im sure that it will happen sooner than later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest cobainwasmurdered Report post Posted October 4, 2002 Ah, found it. The thing that gets me about conspiracy nuts is how they INSIST that they are right, and everyone else is an ignorant dupe at best, if not a willing participant in the EVIL CONSPIRACY~! without being able to even admit the possibility that they might be wrong. Jingus we aren't ALL like that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest J*ingus Report post Posted October 4, 2002 I meant the hardcore types like those at whatsreallyupmysass.com, the ones who literally refuse to admit the possibility that Oswald might've shot Kennedy, or 9/11 was simply Islamic terrorists crashing planes into buildings, or what have you. The ones who see every single action by the government as some sort of plot to deprive them of their (imaginary) constitutional rights. Ya know... conspiracy nuts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites