Marcus, an article in the Boston Globe yesterday averred that the far right militia types were abandoning social media and using chat rooms instead, which (it was stated) meant they were no longer visible to the FBI and other law enforcement.
Your many posts about the retroscope make me dubious that this is true — you seem to think the NSA (and friends) have visibility pretty much everywhere in the net. But maybe not in real time… what are your thoughts?
komarovsays
Well, Sauron isn’t as bad as they say and Mordor Orcs are fine, patriotic people with a strong sense of duty. The only trouble is that they’ve been targeted by Antifa infiltrators and agitators. Whole armies of those. They even attacked Helm’s Deep and managed to get Saruman cancelled over it. Perma-banned to a tower, if you can believe it.
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Re: DonDueed
A sort of follow-up question, but would it make much of a difference if the FBI/NSA did have “complete visibility?” (Not sure if to you or Marcus) It’s almost become a trope (not just in the US) that after an attack, law enforcement “was aware” of the attacker or monitoring them in some way. But somehow there is never enough actionable evidence to do something before the attack. In either case, there’s only ever the after-the-fact reveal (retroscope) and things like incriminating chatlogs could be pulled from both servers or personal devices, but they’d most likely be available in the end.
By the way, the image in my last post and many on the other ones are often referred to as “reaction images”. Some people store thousands of these to have responses to things.
The Picard facepalm is a notable one.
komarovsays
Re: outis (#3):
Well, that turned very dark quickly. I’m not sure what’s worse: that it makes so much sense (based on the wiki article) or that it rings familiar. I’ll remember it, thanks.
mailliwsays
@3 Outis
One interpretation of Lord of the Rings is that Tolkien saw the Shire as the rural conservative England of the south and Mordor as the industrial, socialist north.
Marcus, an article in the Boston Globe yesterday averred that the far right militia types were abandoning social media and using chat rooms instead, which (it was stated) meant they were no longer visible to the FBI and other law enforcement.
Your many posts about the retroscope make me dubious that this is true — you seem to think the NSA (and friends) have visibility pretty much everywhere in the net. But maybe not in real time… what are your thoughts?
Well, Sauron isn’t as bad as they say and Mordor Orcs are fine, patriotic people with a strong sense of duty. The only trouble is that they’ve been targeted by Antifa infiltrators and agitators. Whole armies of those. They even attacked Helm’s Deep and managed to get Saruman cancelled over it. Perma-banned to a tower, if you can believe it.
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Re: DonDueed
A sort of follow-up question, but would it make much of a difference if the FBI/NSA did have “complete visibility?” (Not sure if to you or Marcus) It’s almost become a trope (not just in the US) that after an attack, law enforcement “was aware” of the attacker or monitoring them in some way. But somehow there is never enough actionable evidence to do something before the attack. In either case, there’s only ever the after-the-fact reveal (retroscope) and things like incriminating chatlogs could be pulled from both servers or personal devices, but they’d most likely be available in the end.
@ Komarov:
someone already moved on that idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
not half bad either, if you are into fantasy.
I posted that LotR meme a while back, but I don’t think I posted it to my blog, so it must have been in a Wonkette comment.
I hadn’t seen the meme of John Barron, but I had definitely encountered the joke in text form.
Google “pun raccoon”. There are always problematic ones.
https://giphy.com/gifs/meme-computer-spock-41I5c7m6CNqHm
By the way, the image in my last post and many on the other ones are often referred to as “reaction images”. Some people store thousands of these to have responses to things.
The Picard facepalm is a notable one.
Re: outis (#3):
Well, that turned very dark quickly. I’m not sure what’s worse: that it makes so much sense (based on the wiki article) or that it rings familiar. I’ll remember it, thanks.
@3 Outis
One interpretation of Lord of the Rings is that Tolkien saw the Shire as the rural conservative England of the south and Mordor as the industrial, socialist north.