Posts by Rich Lock
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Hard News: News media meets new media:…, in reply to Lilith __,
I don't think internet trolling is analogous to the hate crimes, arson and murder, practiced by the KKK
Not in toto, no. But perhaps in the specifics of the anonymising aspects, and the attempts to intimidate via that anonymity.
There were a few articles recently about the #mencallmethings hashtag, and although I can't find the specifc article I'm thinking of, there was one woman who had had some experience of tracking and confronting the worst of the anonymous offenders via their IP addresses. Might have been on the recent Media7, come to think of it...
Anyway, a couple of other not-entirely-off-point articles here and here.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
I suspect that rather neatly sums up and crystalises my fuzzy ill-thought-out view on this. So, uh, thank you?
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
an appearance free
Freudian slip? No such thing as a mistake?
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Hard News: News media meets new media:…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
In the pre-Internet age, they would have hidden behind things like white hooded robes.
I read an awesome true story recently where the teller grew up in a small US town. The local Klan marched down main street in their anonymising hoods as an intimidatory show of strength. An effect fatally undercut when a friendly dog (with a highly distinctive pattern) broke out of the crowd and started dancing around the feet of the grand high wizard at the front, and happily trotting along beside him. Sotto voce hisses of 'go home, spot' from under the hood were more or less drowned out by laughter from the crowd, and cries of 'hey, that's doc simpson's dog!'.
Apparently, the Klan in that town never really gained a lot of traction.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Danielle,
I too am perfectly well-served by either Labour or National in government, because I'm middle-class and well-off. It's not 'picking fights' to note that this isn't really a matter of life or death for a lot of people here, because that's the way we skew demographically. So my "Hating National With The Passion of a Thousand Fiery Suns" thing, which is my political approach, is therefore... almost academic, or hobbyist, in a way? I'm probably just a smug asshole, really.
Yeah, there's an underlying assumption in asking the question which could be crudely summed up as 'what's in it for me?', rather than 'what's in it for all of us?'
I don't tend to vote based on just my own narrow self-interests. And despite growing concern about jobs, economy, etc, I don't think the population at large do either, otherwise Act would be beginning it's glorious 27th consecutive term as Our Supreme Overlords. All Hail the Sainted Ann! All Hail our Enlightened Objective Self-Interest!
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Kumara Republic,
As in Tottenham/Clichy-sous-Bois turbulent?
I suspect that, globally speaking, that's going to end up being seen as the opening overture to a whole lot of nasty shit that's coming down the tubes. How that plays out in isolated, edge-of-the-world NZ remains to be seen.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I'm just going to fuck off.
Being completely serious, that would be a real shame.
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it is worth pointing out that Labour ran the country for 9 years until quite recently, and that the media hasn't changed a lot in that time. So it's not that stacked against the left.
the degree in which I identify the Left with the New Zealand Labour Party is... small.
Indeed.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to giovanni tiso,
a greater emphasis on the power of politics to transform society - which, I think we can probably agree, is the Left.
Transform society for the better. The Right has been 'transforming' society for decades.
But that probably didn't need to be explicity stated here...
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Has anyone nominated 'meltdown' yet?
Financial markets, and Fukushima.