I am unconcerned about using Discord. I interpret the comment about 'shutting down [insert phrase here] servers' in the context of modern media, where they are required to shut down hate speech. Wow - If you look across the newsgroups, we lost Comp.Lang.Forth recently for a couple of weeks, as the content provider (Google) was hit with a takedown for inappropriate speech. Comp.Lang.Forth was always a place to get out the deck chairs, grab a 6 pack and the popcorn, and watch the sparks fly between particular individuals.
I would be happy to use IRC if we could get a 3k wide audio stream out of it - That would be an interesting client to write...... Doug Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em: [email protected] ph: 0414 986878 Check out my awesome clocks at www.dougswordclocks.com Follow my amateur radio adventures at vk1zdj.net ----------------------------------------------------------- Just like an old fashioned letter, this email and any files transmitted with it should probably be treated as confidential and intended solely for your own use. Please note that any interesting spelling is usually my own and may have been caused by fat thumbs on a tiny tiny keyboard. Should any part of this message prove to be useful in the event of the imminent Zombie Apocalypse then the sender bears no personal, legal, or moral responsibility for any outcome resulting from its usage unless the result of said usage is the unlikely defeat of the Zombie Hordes in which case the sender takes full credit without any theoretical or actual legal liability. :-) Be nice to your parents. Go outside and do something awesome - Draw, paint, walk, setup a radio station, go fishing or sailing - just do something that makes you happy. ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G- In more laid back days this line would literally sing ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 4:34 PM Hiraghm <[email protected]> wrote: > When I saw mention of a Discord server or IRC channel, I became interested. > > I keep hearing about Discord in other contexts and venues, but never had > an interest, until now. > > I have been on IRC, off-and-on, since the 1990s. > > Then I read, here, that Discord bragged about shutting down "white > supremacist" servers, and realized that it's run by left-wing > extremists. So I would be even more censored there than I am here, and > just as arbitrarily. > > I'm wondering how many communist servers they've shut down? If so, why > haven't they bragged about that? I would also think servers facilitating > Antifa organizing its terrorist activities would be a greater "problem" > than a few white supremacists trying to find a place where they can > discuss their odious opinions. Especially today, when "white > supremacist" has been made synonymous with "doesn't wholeheartedly > endorse left-wing extremist ideology". > > But that's politics, and I don't come here to discuss politics. Suffice > to say, any social media that concerns itself with social engineering > turns me off. Discord is a publisher, it appears, not a platform. > > That said, I'm of the opinion that IRC would be a more appropriate venue > for Model-T chat. Like the Model-T, it's a vintage technology. > Theoretically an IRC client could be written for the Model-T, > especially, I would think, under RexCPM. I don't believe a Discord > client would be as easy, if even possible. > > And I do think most of us would welcome the opportunity to encourage > increased use of Model-Ts in the Model-T community. > > Semi-off-topic, does anyone know of an active Model-T oriented or > related BBS? > > >
