It's late in the day and mine started at 0400. I got up, had my coffee and went to the gym to lift. There are goals to meet, you know. After that was an 0700 phonecon and then a trip into work. And so the long day wore on. All that is to say is that today's blog post is very late.
Libs of TikTok is a Twitter account that reposts TikTok videos to Twitter. They typically pick sexually degenerate teachers talking about how they're perverting children. It's a horror. Here's one of their tweets, chosen almost at random.
🚨🚨🚨This non-binary assistant professor at Old Dominion University is trying to normalize the term MAP (Minor Attracted Persons) pic.twitter.com/riD6TdIt8k
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2021
And that's pretty much it. They take content off of one social media site, one that skews much, much younger, a post it to a different social media site, one that skews older.
Libs of TikTok is an anonymous site, like this blog. Anon sites aren't uncommon and there are various reasons for using a pseudonym. Recently, the WaPo doxxed, that is, revealed the identity, of the person behind Libs of TikTok. That has resulted, predictably, in the person having to go to ground.
All they did was post content from one social media site to another.
The only possible conclusion is that the WaPo, as Elite an institution as one might hope to find in the news media, doesn't want parents discovering that is happening to their children.
2 comments:
" Anon sites aren't uncommon and there are various reasons for using a pseudonym."
So, I have a number of friends who have been working in computer security for decades, and this is one thing they all agree on: Online anonymity is a dangerous illusion. It doesn't actually exist. "Anonymous" accounts are like the cheap "privacy locks" on interior doors that can be popped open with a paper clip. The only people they actually stop are the people who don't actually want in very badly, and are too polite to come in without an invitation. Anyone with even the slightest motivation to actually get in/find out who you are, can do it without much difficulty.
Being "anonymous" online strikes me as a dangerous trap. If you let yourself believe it, then you will be tempted to say things that you would never say to anyone that you were speaking to in person. You say more and more such things. And then, one day, somebody puts in the minimal effort to find out who you are, and threatens to expose you. Now what are you supposed to do? The only really viable thing is to proclaim "Publish and be damned!" and try not to let your feelings be hurt by the hate-mail, but if you had been open about who you were in the first place, it never would have even come up.
Basically, an anonymous account is a sort of entrapment operation that people carry out on themselves.
Yeah, it's only a fence. Like the fence around my yard, it will only keep our people who recognize it as a request to stay out. A determined person can find out my real identity and then I'd have to deal with the consequences. Oh well.
I'm relying on people to be courteous and civilized. At no time and in no place was that ever a guarantee of safety. There will always be people like Taylor Lorenz and organizations like the Washington Post who will stop at nothing to destroy their political enemies.
My fence can be breached by determined criminals, too, but I leave it up there anyway.
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