Change of topic is venerable group-censorship, aka sanctimonus
moderation, autocratic cowardice, clusterfuck. Usually instigated by
an unindicted co-conspirator, eager beaver undercover, paid informer,
junior TA, tenure aspirant, deft sucker-up. No shit, the hoary,
whorey, technique is explained for those lusting for approbation:
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
Must jump to say none of the stellar contributors here are to be
granted pardon.
At 08:53 AM 1/20/2021, you wrote:
On 2021-01-20 09:59, Geert Lovink wrote:
the authoritian grip of the Xi regime is only further tightening.
I'm really done with this discussion here, but with all due respect,
comments like these are comically ridiculous. I'm finished trying to
explain why, I feel I have tried. Anybody that wants to talk
further, please feel free to reach out.
In the meantime, please see these resources, all of which are
published by people I know personally and have spent time with, so
while I in no way speak for them, I have some insight into how they
feel and what they think:
- https://www.thetricontinental.org
- https://www.newframe.com
- https://peoplesdispatch.org
- https://www.newsclick.in
- https://ruralindiaonline.org
These are my comrades, as much as I would like for all of you to be
my comrades also, as I have met and worked with so many of you, so
long as you perpetuate a climate of toxic chauvinism with
pompeo-level blanket denouncements, you are burning any bridges
possible with these communities, and this is profoundly disappointing to me.
If there is one thing you are able to hear from my comments, just
know that denouncements like the one Geert makes above means that
the communities those publications emerge from will feel unwelcome
and looked down upon here.
If there is any desire to "extend the nettime project" then this
culture of intolerance to the views of so many people will not help.
For my own part, I am so glad that the telekommunisten project, born
in the hacker, activist and media art circles that many of us share,
has led me to be in contact with these communities, and I will now
go where they lead, even if that means, sadly, walking away from some of you.
--
Dmytri Kleiner
@dmytri
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