It’s never easy to admit when one has been wrong. Yet when doing so, a greater challenge is to avoid patting oneself on the back for having noticed what, in hindsight, should have been obvious years before.
For personal reasons, I am unable to return to the forum, and I must set aside some other unfinished business from years ago. However, in conscience, I must make here one brief statement to denounce unequivocally some of the people whom I ambivalently defended to P&S in 2020–2021: Various figures on the American Right associated with the Trump movement.
This unpublished diatribe then proceeds at length to examine developments against free speech and privacy. Quite frankly, it had drawn my sympathy when there were concerted efforts to wipe certain kinds of ideas off the Internet. But now, yesteryear’s underdogs are in power—and along the way, they set us on a path towards a world in which you’ll need to do KYC to turn on a computer.
I stand for free speech. I stand for privacy. I stand against KYC. This should surprise no one who has ever read my posts...
I’ll leave it at that. I don’t intend to post routinely in P&S, anyway; I just need to correct my stance as to some of the discussions in which I was involved around six years ago.
