OK. A new one. Shortly after my blog posts on antisemitism, the gunman, and racist language, I get an email in my inbox saying I’m subscribed to Pak Alert.
I didn’t pay any mind and didn’t click on it, thinking it was spam. Then I googled Pak Alert, which seems to be a news group. Glancing through it, I see it has the Protocols of the Elders of Zion listed….and some antisemitic language that I didn’t bother to read through since it was clear what it was.
I deleted the mail, thinking it was spam.
But then I got to thinking about how I got the mail. So I went and and checked and sure enough, someone had subscribed me to the group. That’s abuse, and I reported it twice to Google.
Wondering if someone wanted to create an embarrassing record to “prove” I was anti-Semitic, since I’d subscribed to the group.
Now, how did that happen? Did they get my password or can you just add an email without permission? No idea. I don’t frequent chat groups.
Tomorrow, I’m going through and making note of some of the things that have happened since I started writing for the web. It runs the gamut from name-calling to hacking, spamming, stalking, provocation, libel, threats, delinking articles, plagiarism, copyright infringement, personal harassment, forgery, invasion of privacy, sending out private email to public groups…….
Not complaining, merely observing the follies of my fellow men.
And wondering if they’re worth it.
Its probably not worth it. Re-read Mencken on controversy. Trying to edify the masses is futile. You will find some comaraderie, some fellowship and commond ground out there but you have to sift through much debris and expose yourself to dangerous idiots. You are an original and outspoken clear thinking obeserver of various spheres of human activity. You are independent, smart and unideological. In a sane time and place you would be respected a great deal. Now inflamatory dolts are upset that you upend their simpleton beliefs and two dimensional simplifications. You made theme think and doubt or worse they feel threatened–they lash out, they are infantile, they are stupid and semi-literate dolts. They are dangerous. Back to the old ways, we should form true salons and invite well vetted folks for discussions—ah to have lived in another more civilized time Lila my friend…
You are, of course, right.
I should ask people to register, although I can’t think how that helps since I wouldn’t know one way or other.
People don’t enjoy ideas for their own sake.
That I can see.
Anyone who knows your email address can register you with a newsgroup and create a password. Usually you get an email with a link that you have to click in order for your registration to become official. If this site doesn’t even have that, it’s evidence of nothing. If it does and you clicked it by accident, you can write the site owner, tell him what happened and he should remove you from it’s register. Even registration is no reason to be targeted, as it doesn’t pertain to motive. You could have registered just to feel them out or confront them.
Not that big a deal…
Oh good.
anyway, I didn’t click and I reported it as abuse.
1st they ridicule.
then they lol
then they attack
then we win
I think there are some finer points glossed over in-between each. This is a pre-then they attack.
It’s also like in high school or jr. high – only -certain people believe it even more-so nowadays, and the repercussions, if they can frame you just right, have serious consequences.
You just need a white-hat hacker dude for a b/f to watch your back a bit better?
But then again, tough feisty independent girls don’t, “need” anybody.
They know it too. Mine is thorn in their side every day. Makes them have to look like they play by the rules, they hate that. [Don’tchya, watchers of us all]
Go- hot girl -go.
ooops, did I just say that out loud?
Hey –
no worries
and thanks for the support
I think I’m ok.
May just be an accident
And if you know a hacker dude, let me know
“People don’t enjoy ideas for their own sake. That I can see.” Don’t think like that! Ingore the jerks. Keep writing. There are a lot of us non-verbal folks who appreciate what you are doing.
Actually Lila, though you didn’t sign up, even if you had it is perfectly valid for one to “listen in” to what others are saying (electronically) on a subject. Anyone who uses that against you is just an idiot grasping for straws.
What matters, and all that you need to defend yourself, is your record. Keep writing, keep building that record. Don’t let the idiots, perverts, etc get to you.
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
Thanks, Greg and Gene.
As I said, I have a lot of things on my plate and simply am unable to get to the kind of research and writing for this blog, let alone technical additions, that I’d like to get to.
The piece about moving isn’t talk.
It’s what I’m working on. I truly do not feel at home in any discourse here. I do not see republicans or democrats or statists or even war mongers as evil. People advocate war for various reasons. Aside from the handful of financiers who initiate war, most people go along with it for what they see as a “good” – mistakenly. Or at least, that’s how they justify it.
If blogging is supposed to change public opinion, what sense does it make to be so vituperative toward people on the opposite side? Or so attached to “our” side?
I don’t get it.
Lila,
Sorry to hear that, it’s not easy to be a public blogger. However, so much “criticism” is indicative that you are doing something good. “Darkness is the darkest where Light is the brightest”.
“This email has been closed temporarily”
Still having problems?
Not sure.
Mainly, I don’t want to answer from it or click links any more.
Sorry.