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Last login: 13 hours agoHarrystottle: Harry is a guy from Bristol, England, UK.; Likes 3,770 pages, 126 videos, 20 photos • 95 fans • Received 13 reviews; Member since Oct 03, 2005

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Alex Jones Infowars: Theres a war on for your mind!: Aug 20, 4:24pm 1 review politics, police-state, mercenaries, trusted-surveillance •http://www.infowars.com/?p=3718; this doesn't constitute evidence. We don't know the provenance of the photograph and as we've seen elsewhere "there's nothing photoshop can't fix". But it won't surprise me if/when it turns out to be true and I'd like to hear the official reaction...

Worlds Smallest Burger, Fries &Soda Meal... Yummy! | DailyCognition.com: Aug 20, 4:19pm 68 reviews bizarre •http://www.dailycognition.com/index.p...; now that's what I call downsizing....

James Randi on the Tonight Show: Aug 20, 4:10pm 3 reviews science-fiction, video, debunking •http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=exsjo...; James Randi's heavy duty debunking... good shit.

403 Forbidden: Aug 20, 3:54pm 6 reviews heavy-metal, video •http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=fujva...; wow! That's the best thing I've seen since Muse...

train your cat - Google Video: Aug 20, 3:44pm 1 review cats •http://video.google.com/videosearch?q...; weirdly compelling - but left the obvious question unanswered. How d'you get the get to flush?

StumbleVideo: Aug 20, 3:31pm 625 reviews internet, ufos, stumble-grumbles •http://video.stumbleupon.com/; looking at the comments I see someone else has already commented that it looks like we're seeing different videos. I'm adding this behaviour to my growing list of stumble grumbles but I have to say, "it worked for me".

First thing I saw was an amusing advert for the new i900 - which did have me wondering "what the fuck's this got to do with UFOs?", but then I clicked play and saw a pretty interesting piece of UFO footage. (So the problem is just more bad design on the part of the Stumble team - they're trying to feed us adverts without us being warned or aware, so that we don't immediately click away from them; this is alienating users)

In any case, now I've seen what we were supposed to see, I want it debunked or explained please. It did look pretty convincing...

500kV Switch Opening: Aug 20, 3:22pm 52 reviews science, video, electricity, spark •http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=3w91v...; that's got to be more than 500Kv. I thought it took 50k to cross an inch and that spark must be jumping 10-15 feet!

Review: The Dark Knight || kuro5hin.org: Aug 20, 3:06pm 2 reviews movies, terrorism, police-state, manufacturing-consent •http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/8/...; Superb review of the Dark Knight. Still haven't seen the damn thing. Can't wait to judge for myself whether the message is supportive or subversive of the Police State...

The New York Times & Log In: Aug 20, 3:00pm 3 reviews multimedia, trolls, police-state, manufacturing-consent •http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/mag...; Excellent, well balanced analysis of the current state of Trolling.

Clearly, some of the more intelligent trolls will become extremely useful in the overarching battle against authority. Equally clearly, some of them are in imminent danger of being labelled "cyberterrorists".

I predict that the authorities will try this on, in order to see if anyone will leap to their defence. They already seem to be winning the battle - or at least making progress - against the paedophiles and, of course, no one was ever going to come to their rescue. It's time to ratchet up the control and see if we get away with criminalising the "killer trolls". Next we'll go for the spammers. And then we absolutely must have your names and ip addresses so that we can trace the source of those nasty little viruses.

How far down the line d'you suppose the average political dissenter or atheist will be? Think I'm exaggerating? What about:

"Representative Linda S�nchez, a Democrat from California, has introduced the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, which would make it a federal crime to send any communications with intent to cause "substantial emotional distress.""

I'm pretty damn sure that many Fundamentalists are deeply hurt by many of the attacks on their worldview. And I'm equally sure that many of those attacks are intended to cause that pain. A law like that would outlaw precisely those kind of attacks.