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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!
Poisonous Poisonous Poisonous Poisonous
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?

 

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