So something that has been on my mind lately is the way various areas of the internet tend to press people to either be part of a cesspool of the lowest depths of depravity and lack of morals or ethics . . . or else the pressure is to lie about who you are and what your motives are and what you represent and what you do.
Examples:
(1) If people are allowed to promote commercial interests in a particular area, they generally go massively overboard, such that it becomes difficult to have a conversation amidst the spam i.e. bands on *******. If people are not allowed to promote commercial interests in a particular area, they generally make up fake personalities and pretend that they are not really promoting something commercial i.e. pay sites on LiveJournal.
(2) If adult material is allowed in a particular area, people start getting cranky if they are asked to draw the line any where, so we end up with Dutch sites selling bestiality and worse i.e. European adult links sites. If adult material is not allowed, enforcers get so vigilant that they expect people to pretend they have never visited any site on the net which features any level of nudity i.e. paypal.
(3) There are tons of people online who put out claims of being innovators in their field as a sales pitch. Some of them are not exactly innovators. Depending on where this is discussed online, the attitude seems to be either anything for a buck, anyone who whines must not be very paid, fast follower gets the worm, screw giving anyone credit . . . or no one should ever question anyone else's claims because it is rude and everything is fine, nothing to see here, move along.
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