Demo hacks have excelled at “distorting the truth infamously.”
“No Wall of words, no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.” —George Washington (1798)
Thirty years ago, Texas attorney and civil libertarian Mike Godwin, then associated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation but more recently associated with the ChiCom-controlled social media data-mining platform TikTok, sarcastically asserted a “natural law of Usenet” — Usenet being an early computer-based communication system that preceded the World Wide Web. He declared, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” That adage became known as “Godwin’s Law.”
Of course, back then online discussions were few and far between, as the coded framework for the…
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