Modern censorship

From: James Harris (jstevh_at_msn.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: 17 Nov 2004 17:06:48 -0800

You read in history books about individuals harried by mobs,
continually barraged with various attacks, who face outrageous
behavior at the hands of some group, and then we come to a supposedly
enlightened age with extraordinary tools for sharing information--and
the same damn thing happens again.

Over the years that I've posted on PUBLIC forums the thing that has
stood out is how out there, without shame, and without even hesitating
to hide what they're doing--groups of people have made it their
business to try to censor what I write.

Time after time they'd post to tell me to go away, or to tell others
to ignore me, as these people made it their business to try to
control.

When harassing me on Usenet wasn't enough, they took to putting up
webpage--and if another one of you tries to claim that I harassed
David Ullrich, a math professor who after harassing me for years
dragged race into the picture talking about racial slurs, because I
complained about him bringing race into the picture to his university,
then you just make my point that much more forcefully. Race is not a
tool to be used by some unethical math professor who thinks it's a
neat way to insult someone on Usenet. David Ullrich was wrong to try
to attack me with race, and I was right to call him on it, and
complain to his school.

You people cheat.

Sure I derided math journals for years but I wrote a paper and sent it
to a journal, so some of you emailed that journal to get the paper
censored.

You are disgusting cretins who follow no rules, no moral obligations,
and you are irrational.

I can argue point for point, point by point, explain over and over
again, as I've done for years, and one of you will just disagree to be
disagreeable!

I offer compromise and get spat upon.

History shows that there are always those of the mob, who take it upon
themselves to try and control the few, or especially, the one.

I'm thankful that this plays out over the Internet.

In the past you are the people who would be tying someone to a stake
to burn them and then, blaming the victim, shout your morality to the
heavens, as if God listens to loudness above reason.

You are the reason that we have a society of today where so many
problems will not get addressed because a few people fight for control
they do not have.

You wish to control others, to dominate the conversation, to force
your will upon people who might want to say something you don't want
to hear.

So still the webpages are there--some of you illegally using my
copyrighted material to insult me--and you people refuse to give up
your attempts at control despite the years, despite the stupidity of
it all, despite the immorality.

But you do not control me. I post as I will despite your webpages,
despite emails you might send, despite the dedication with which you
try to push me this way or that, or to push others, though, yes, most
posters bend to your will.

They are cows, and cowards. I watch them come and go over the years
terrified to ever say anything at all objective about my work for fear
that they'll be mobbed, as they will.

But I will not be ruled. I will not be controlled by you. I will not
be conquered.

And I will win. I have a paper at a major math journal. If they try
to slide out of publication like others before them, it will go to
another, and another, and another, as I adjust, shift the wording,
learn the game, play the politics necessary to get published.

And if it takes a decade I WILL GET PUBLISHED.

And then you will be part of history, part of the sad story of
mobbings, and angry people willing to do so much wrong for the sake of
their own sense of control. Yet another sad sorry tale among so many
in a world of people who never learn their history.

In a world where people refuse to learn from the mistakes of the past,
not only to repeat them, but to wallow in the misery they create for
others, to celebrate the destruction they wreak, and to pride
themselves until the day they finally fall.

And humanity is so much the worse for all of the stink of it.

James Harris

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