How would one deal with technologically illiterate fascists?

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29 Aug 2016, 8:02 am

I've come across http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet ... ansas-farm and can safely say that if it ever happened to me I would probably give up on life, which is ironic considering even authorities thought someone suicidal happened to be there... surely, if they weren't before they felt it after all the harassment.

I mean, a broken toilet? Who in the world carries a broken toilet simply to exact some sort of vengeance?

Clearly, this is the difference between technological progress contrasted with utter human retardation... but then again, whois should just not have any data listed if it's not real. It's never accurate to the household, though... so, I wonder how many more of these incidents happened without any side knowing what's happening... humanity seems so stupid sometimes they seem to beg for extinction...



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29 Aug 2016, 8:17 am

Interesting link, but what the hell does any of this have to do with Fascism? Nothing, that's what.



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29 Aug 2016, 9:24 am

This is the opposite of technological illiteracy. This is technologically augmented and enhanced stupidity.

The people who make life difficult for those living at the addresses in question are using internet mapping and databases to search for other people. To use such software requires some degree of technological literacy.

The problem here is unspectacular: bad code created by people who failed to think through the consequences of a design decision when the created the mapping tools and location databases. Since the mechanism of failure that leads to the false attribution of address to this and similar locations is not transparent to users, there is nothing suggesting technological illiteracy about their relying on the bad information their technology feeds them.

As chessboxer points out, none of this has anything to do with fascism or fascists.


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29 Aug 2016, 9:31 am

I cannot see any connection between this topic and Politics, Philosophy, or Religion. I have moved it to the Computers, Science and Technology forum.



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29 Aug 2016, 7:47 pm

How does anyone deal with a technological illiterate anything? (children excepted).

Half of U.S. Adults believe the Universe is less than 10,000 years old....


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