9 August - The internet and why is the extreme left so full of hate?
It’s amazing what you can read on the Internet and one
way or another I have been playing with it for more than 40 years. Not as we
know it now, I refer to the Post Office Prestel system which I browsed on my
1200 bit per second modem. That’s 1·2 kilobit, forget any thoughts of megabits,
cloud cuckoo land in 1981. I can’t remember when I gave up on Prestel,
but in the middle nineteen nineties I began to pay Demon Internet a tenner a
month for a primitive internet connection. The basics were much the same as
today but slower and largely static.
Memories fade but I think I remember modems improving from 9·6 kilobits per
second through to 56 kilobits before ADSL broadband was introduced with a
staggering half a megabit download speed; if you were lucky.
For reasons that are mainly forgotten I introduced several sceptical friends to
the internet by signing them up myself. Somehow or other I finished up paying
for four net connections in addition to my own, but it is reduced to only two
now. It has gone on for so long that I suspect the users think it is just a free
service that is there by magic, if they think about it at all.
One of the connections is used for posting what I regard as pretty extreme
political material. It began with Brexit hatred and everyone not in love with
the EU was a fascist and a Nazi which I found difficult to accept but bit my
tongue. Now I find myself paying for a stream of extraordinary anti-Tory
invective which must be verging on hate crime status.
The last straw for me is that it has recently escalated to a “campaign” to get
all Conservative MPs to volunteer for Dignitas. The suggestion received a
considerable amount of support among the hate mongers. There were volunteers
ready to crowd fund the fees to get the job done. Carried away by their own
death wish enthusiasm, the dregs of humanity wanted to see Conservative Party
Members included in the cull and inevitably the scheme was then extended to all
Tory voters. That’s me and I am paying for it!
Conservatives may well be self-serving, putting their
mates before the general population etc. lying crooks but unmitigated hatred for
everyone who doesn’t share their views appears to be thankfully absent from their scheming.
If Sadiq Khan tripped and fell under a double deck bus I would once I’d recovered from the shock
remember that every cloud has a silver lining but I have never dreamed of crowd funding a shove
in the right direction; but for the the rabid Left, the fringe elements anyway,
such things are an all consuming perverted obsession.
It shouldn’t need saying but no local Labour elected politician would condone
the proposed mass extermination although of course, two years ago, one of their activists
endorsed something similar for Nigel Farage. Nigel by the way has also been nominated for Dignitas.
I have never been so appalled at what goes through the head of someone who I
thought I knew reasonably well. The question is, should I pull his plug?