I really don't know what is up with that. Here they are soliciting writers to come and join their comm, and when one asks questions, they basically throw insults. Maybe they just don't want to engage in any kind of discussion. I don't know.
Whatever. It was only idle interest, really. I don't have much impulse to write fan fiction these days. I just thought a new comm might get my interest going again, but this has more or less squashed it. I've had enough of this kind of bullshit.
It gets even worse on yahoo groups, at times. I used to be on this LotR fic group, and one time I got into a discussion with someone else, about a fic, and suddenly there was this post from the moderator, saying: 'Enough! If you two don't desist, you both will be removed from this list.' Or something along those lines. After that, I always pictured this moderator wearing a uniform and wielding a whip, or something. Unbelievable... ;)
It's sad that people are ruining it for other people this way, basically, and they don't even know, or they just don't care.
Yeah, it's amazing how a little authority will turn people into tin-plated dictators.
Well, if Congress ends up passing those internet laws, all these little empires will vanish in a puff of smoke, and the dictators will just have to go back to being ordinary people. So much for My Will Is Law, eh?
Yes, the big fishes in the little pond will have to go back to being little fishes in a big pond. How hard it will be on them...
And I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for this bill not to be passed. They can't take LJ and other blog-sites away from so many people! Can't humanity triumph for once over big money?
Funny thing is, those laws are going to devastating to the US economy. A huge amount of business in this country alone has gotten linked into the internet in one way or another. If they start fucking around with it, the consequences are going to be enormous.
But try explaining that to the pinheads pushing this thing. All they can see is their profit margins, which will go into the toilet if they get their way. But they're far too short-sighted to understand that.
Stupidity and greed - a very dangerous combination. It still baffles me that everyone can see what's happening and still no one is able to do anything about it. It's like watching a car-wreck with your hands tied behind your back. It's excruciating...
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Whatever. It was only idle interest, really. I don't have much impulse to write fan fiction these days. I just thought a new comm might get my interest going again, but this has more or less squashed it. I've had enough of this kind of bullshit.
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It's sad that people are ruining it for other people this way, basically, and they don't even know, or they just don't care.
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Well, if Congress ends up passing those internet laws, all these little empires will vanish in a puff of smoke, and the dictators will just have to go back to being ordinary people. So much for My Will Is Law, eh?
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And I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for this bill not to be passed. They can't take LJ and other blog-sites away from so many people! Can't humanity triumph for once over big money?
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Not under this administration, it can't.
Funny thing is, those laws are going to devastating to the US economy. A huge amount of business in this country alone has gotten linked into the internet in one way or another. If they start fucking around with it, the consequences are going to be enormous.
But try explaining that to the pinheads pushing this thing. All they can see is their profit margins, which will go into the toilet if they get their way. But they're far too short-sighted to understand that.
Ah, irony. My favorite flavor.
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