I hate having to use the word 'admit' because it makes it seem like I am guilty or sorry or wrong. People seem to think that all the social morals from the RL (real life for the uninitiated) carry over onto the internet. They don't, at least not a a global level. It is up to the specific website to create its own set of morals to govern their social interactions. And while it is usually the case that websites try to maintain a RL level of morals, some don't. These are the sites that tend to attract the most controversy and hatred. It's fun to be able to go somewhere and leave your morals behind. It's liberating and exciting; how could it not be? The only reason people don't treat other like shit in real life is that they can't get away with it, online you can. Especially in a place like /b/.
Just because I am a /b/tard doesn't even mean that I am a troll in other online forums let alone pretend I am a dead teenager and call his house. I played Battlefield 2 semi-professionally for a while, and I did not troll the forums of my clan, nor did I troll the forums of any other online community I was part of. Want to know why? Becuase the social morals of those communities did not put up with that kind of BS.
People need who are /b/tards but also cruise other forums, need to be able to have different modes of thinking for every different forum, because every forum has different morals.
There are those of us who look upon the depraved members of /b/ with not contempt, but pity. Because these are people who don't know that the RL and the internet are two wholly different worlds. The depravity that is a source of humor(lulz) online is something that would only show serious moral issues in a person in the RL.
There are people that try to combat the /b/tards, but don't realize that we are not really something that can be fought. The reason that is can best be explained in our motto thingy and by the videos on this site.
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We are one.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
We will crush anything that stands in our way.
But we will be hailed as saviours of the internet.
/b/rothers, MAN THE HARPOONS!
We are legion.
We are one.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
We will crush anything that stands in our way.
But we will be hailed as saviours of the internet.
/b/rothers, MAN THE HARPOONS!
Expect us. Anonymous is waiting.
2 comments:
If every forum has different morals, and /b/tards need to switch from one set to the other, what does that say about the RL morality of /b/tards? Is it just as fluid? More importantly, what does it mean for an overarching set of ethics for the online world?
Just like switching between online forums, /b/tards need to switch between the needed morals in the RL and the internet. So in a word: yes, it is just as fluid. The point I was trying to get across was that there is no overarching set of ethics for the online world. It is a amoral space that lets its users decide for themselves which morals they want to carry over from the RL.
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