This morning I received the following incisive remark from that most courageous and morally-responsible of my commenters, "Anonymous":
Why do you repeatedly censor your critics and evade public scrutiny?
Sadly, it is probably just a bot-generated troll; but if it was really-real, the degree of unreflective cognitive dissonance would have been priceless.
But even as an auto-troll; this is a particularly 2022 kind of situation - where actual people are algorithmically berated for their impersonal inhumanity, by random electronic spam.
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Especially the part about evading public scrutiny. A blogger posts, the public scrutinizes. Where does evasion come in?
@ap - Well, um... It's the comparison between someone who blogs under their real identity with vast documentation - and someone/ something unknown and anonymous who makes a derogatory comment. Naturally, we ought to trust the anonymous unknown - because, after all, we don't know anything Bad about Them; so they Must be Better people, yes?
It's just like journalists and bureaucrats - who are the moral watchdogs and arbiters of our society. They never do anything wrong, because they never Do anything - therefore they are naturally superior to those error prone and corruptible individuals who do Stuff.
Without trying to be a downer, I tend to operate under the assumption that much of the trash on the internet, whether flesh-and-blood or code driven bots are a manifestation of spiritual evil. This being said, I agree, this is almost as humorous and the "captcha" security measure in which humans have to prove to a computer that the human is not a computer. Is this a reverse Turing test? ;-)
--internet commenter formerly know as anonymous.
@JC "the "captcha" security measure in which humans have to prove to a computer that the human is not a computer"
That's right! How come I never realized the absurdity before?
Is the pole part of the traffic light? The computer will decide for us
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