{"id":8340,"date":"2020-09-14T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:37:19","slug":"linked-living-in-a-conspiracy-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/09\/14\/linked-living-in-a-conspiracy-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Living in a Conspiracy Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1324,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/20\\\/09\\\/living-in-a-conspiracy-nation&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250831061701\\\/https:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/20\\\/09\\\/living-in-a-conspiracy-nation&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 19:56:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-23 19:15:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-02 22:09:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-08 03:30:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 17:53:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 17:55:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 20:48:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-24 02:14:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 11:50:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-31 21:31:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 04:30:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 05:36:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-12 18:57:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-16 04:18:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-19 15:43:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-23 11:18:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 17:58:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 00:41:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 00:41:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/09\/living-in-a-conspiracy-nation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via Kottke<\/a> (who does not like replying to emails):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Fox News, talk radio, and Facebook \u2014 aided and abetted by clueless mainstream media outlets who feel the need to cover \u201cboth sides\u201d equally \u2014 have been pounding away on Americans for decades, feeding them misinformation and hate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve been writing this on this blog for nearly a decade..maybe more on my Twitter account back when I had one but I\u2019m going to say it again. The Internet is not a human right. Access to the largest information center in the world, bigger than all libraries put together is an amazing achievement. Most people agree everyone deserves access to high speed Internet at home or anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t. There are too many humans that are too ignorant to benefit. Allow them to pay their bills via telephone or postal service and take away their internet connection. They do not deserve it. It\u2019s actually really easy. If they click a banner to win one of those free iPods or forward that chain mail to 21 friends or share false news, cut them off. \u201cWe have a right to refuse service to anyone\u201d should extend to the Internet. It\u2019s primarily owned by private companies anyway and sometimes, you give users a test to see if they deserve to keep accessing your pipelines and if they fail the test, cut them off and force them to attend an Internet education course in person at the rec-center just like they got a DUI or too many speeding tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Kottke (who does not like replying to emails): Fox News, talk radio, and Facebook \u2014 aided and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-14T19:34:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"a1b131ce-8861-47d1-8a40-b1f4badfe184","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-14T19:37:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AobExzohhR9GKQLH0ut_hhA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2aw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7175,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/linked-one-persons-history-of-twitter-from-beginning-to-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":8340,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;One person\u2019s history of Twitter, from beginning to end&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium: At the same time as we were telling these dumb jokes we were also meeting a lot of new people. 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