Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months agoNow get the hell off my lawn.
We are in a public community on the open Internet here where the following is written in the sidebar :
- Be kind
Tor was created by the USA military and the USA government has funded with millions of dollars. Many years ago Tor had a negative word association to it. But not so much anymore. Countless volunteers run Tor nodes from home, and Tor is not that slow anymore as it used to. I use Tor myself because I strongly dislike all the tracking, snooping and scandals by large and even small companies. The Clearnet Internet has become a disastrous place :(
coffeeClean@infosec.pub 7 months ago
It’s a good point. But note the bigger absurdity with his comment: that a public library is “his lawn”. If his inability to serve the whole public would be just in the private sector, there would be no issue because everyone he disservices can refuse to do business with him.
What’s sickening here is he said “I’m someone in IT for a Public Library”. So he is operating a public service in an exclusive manner telling people /get off his lawn/, which was financed with public money. And 53/55 people are okay with that.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
coffeeClean@infosec.pub 7 months ago
In that sense, it implies that I was encroaching on his space, when in fact he entered this thread to demand that people recognize an approach to sysadministration that does not respect equal rights, privacy, or the environment, and ultimately undermines human rights and promotes consumerism to ease his job at his competency level, as if the public is expected to serve him. It’s not his lawn in either sense of the meaning.