According to my television set, and the little people inside it called documentary makers, the information I get from it is unerringly accurate down to the last detail as it is not in the interest of the professional film-maker to lie, maybe with the exception of Leni Reifenstahl, and maybe some gifted editors as well, just for balance you understand.
There have been several documentaries lately pointing out the vast array of electronic surveillance gadgets available to American spies. Put a word into a special computer in Langley, Virginia and without fail it will pick that word out from all the radio and TV broadcasts, emails and telephone calls in the United States and in countries it wants to keep an eye on (i.e planet earth). It can monitor social pages, twitter and internet messaging. There is not one corner of the electronic world it can’t stick its nose into. Or so they tell us.
I’m wondering if this is really true. If it were true then criminals would be unable to operate, drug traffickers would fail every smuggling attempt, there would be no illegals crossing the Mexican Border or drowning in leaky boats from Indonesia and they would be able to track down every ‘troll, stalker and cyber bully’ with great ease. The internet, telephony and not even morse code would be safe from American scrutiny.
The reality is that more innocent civilians locate thieves, drug dealers, illegals, terrorists and other naughty people than the almost 1 million security personelle on the United States payroll. True. There are more Muslims dobbing in Islamic Radicals than Christians. You are more likely to foil a plot to grow marijuana in Linton than all the sophisticated equipment available to our local police and that extends out to the rest of the world as well. But marijuana still gets grown, so where has it all gone wrong, why are we paying people not to find things?
When it comes to looking after our community we can do more for ourselves than the professionals. We don’t need to create a law to make people behave, we only need people to be aware of what is going on around them and, yes, sometimes diplomatically stick our nose in where it doesn’t belong.
But the real problem these days is ‘cyber-creepies’’ the bullies and not terrorists. It’s ‘hackers’ and irresponsible twits who ‘twitter’ not Muslims. Most terrorists have some ill-guided intention to actually do good things for their community. A crazy community to be sure but still a community. Most of them are totally illiterate and cannot fight with the pen so they fight with the gun, most of them brainwashed from childhood to believe Mullah’s and Imams were pure, honest and sincere just as we were taught that our religious representatives were honest, sincere and pure, Hey Cardinal Pell, get the hint?
Nothing compares to ‘cyber-bullies’ these anonymous creeps, the most disgusting low-life on the planet. But the internet can be controlled, despite the fact that you don’t have to be 18 to click on ‘I am over 18’. We do not need anyone to censor what we can access on the internet. It is up parents to monitor their children. They might see what’s going on with the laptop at home, but how do they know what their children are looking up on their tablets and smart phones on the way to or even when they are at school? Censorship has become a thing of the past, we no longer need old people watching every foot of image to tell us whether we should see it or not. We can download it at our leisure without any censorship these days.
The other day I wanted to create a cartoon with a fat guy in it, with few or no clothes on, so in Google images I searched for ‘Naked Fat Men’. Jesus Christ, there they all were fat men playing with their dicks, big ones, small ones some as big as your head. Some of them were even putting the left one in and shaking it all about.
Internet Service Providers here and overseas should be held liable if they permit, under any circumstances, there service being used for cyber-abuse or any other crime. They should have enough identity on record to be able to assist in the prosecution of offences. It would not be impeding free speech on the internet, although some forms of censorship should be imposed on some sites intended to create havoc and not peaceful pursuits. There are ways we can defend ourselves against cyber-bullies and other cyber-crimes.
‘Trolls’ those who deliberately set out to abuse others on the net can be stopped through correct registration of their account/s. Google, Yahoo and all the other major companies have so much information on us that could be used to stop these people in their tracks. It would be wrong to hand all this information over to just anybody which they sometimes do with law enforcement authorities but the handing over of any information should be through the instrument of a court order and not just to kow-tow to bullying governments.
As was said previously we have ways and means to solve our own problems and to not rely on incompetent protective services. ‘Bullies’ need a response so don’t give them one. Ignoring them is the more successful strategy. You can block some sites to these offenders anyway. There are programs to block all manner of unwanted material if they are used correctly.
Of course you could take the other tack and call their bluff. Decide to meet them but don’t tell them it will be in the presence of your parents or a Policeman. Most likely these gutless slugs, to use a nicer term than I was thinking of, will most likely not show themselves but crawl back under the rock that they slithered from.
I would suggest that a law be introduced that would make bully’s liable if it can be proved that their actions led directly to the death of another person. Manslaughter at the very least. It is easy to take a ‘screen grab’ to the Police so that they have evidence to start proceedings against cyber-bullies.
In summary the person who pays the Internet Account should be held responsible for how that account is used, regardless of whether they are aware of the abuse or not. Financial penalties are usually the best deterrent.
