Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Exodus
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Apr 04 2022 22:01:47

 Ex> Oh, good Lord.  Your REAL NAME on the internet.   Not like there isn't
 Ex> 200000  John Smith's out there.  Come on.
 Ex> 
 Ex> B> and pissed off, and found this very, very poor form.  No, the argument 
 Ex> B> is the "Internet" doesn't hold.  I rarely take part in FidoNet as a res
 Ex> B> and I'm skeptical of posting here.
 Ex> 
 Ex> Then leave.  No one wants a cry baby that wants to stay hidden because
 Ex> they  are hiding something or doing something illegal.
 Ex> 
 Ex> B> I see potential, but we need to to be accommodative of new social mores
 Ex> B> expectations, and set a high standard.
 Ex>  
 Ex> 
 Ex> Dude, this is a BBS ... you knew what was expected in 1993.  NOTHING has 
 Ex> changed.  Only the stupid mindset of people since then.  All the ones
 Ex> now  want to run and hide.
 Ex> 
 Ex> I had to laugh watching Star Trek Picard the other day.  They spoofed a
 Ex> scene  from Star Trek 4 when they were on a bus (1986) and some burly
 Ex> thug was  playing some rap/death music on the bus.  Spock had to volcan
 Ex> pinch him out to turn it off because he wouldn't after being asked.  In
 Ex> Picard (when they went back to 2024) the same scene almost, and the thug
 Ex> was asked to turn off  the crap music on the bus.  He was like oh yeah,
 Ex> sorry, sorry, didn't mean to  offend you, I just like the song, and then
 Ex> turned it off.
 Ex> 
 Ex> That's how society is today, a bunch of cry babies and people who HIDE
 Ex> from  everything.  Even the most dumbest thing int he world like having
 Ex> your REAL  NAME on the internet.  Seriously?!   Grow up.
 Ex> 
 Ex> --- Renegade vY2Ka2

I don't care for your snarky attitude, nor your contemptuous assertion of the "if you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" fallacy.

As I said, you are free to do what you like, but to judge others because they have different values, is not warranted.

To say "nothing has changed" since 1993, is gobsmackingly ignorant. I was using BBS's in 1994, and it is different now.  We live in a world where machines can track you online, no such thing existed in 1994, and even then, the BBS's you were on could not be used as a source of profiling.

What I am saying, is not just me, but many others who share concerns.  It seems some in the BBS community really are not aware how things have changed. There is a BIG demand for privacy, a big concern about Big Tech, tracking.  I'm simply saying that the future of the BBS could be one which factors these concerns.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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