What else can you expect whey you are part of a dying culture & civilisation.

Today a significant proportion of the population have to do nothing at all to earn their daily bread, & an even more significant proportion earn a very good living doing not very much more.

These bored people have to fill their useless time some how, & many do it playing with their phone or keyboard.

You only have to look at parliaments making laws that we will all have to drive electric cars in 30 years time, & that electricity is to come from renewables, a complete impossibility in the timeframe, to see how stupid even our leaders in the west have become.

The stupid, with time on their hands become vicious with their fellows.

Or inflame it Toby. Look at what it's done for Israel Folau's fundraising efforts!

Graham,

$2 1/4 million so far.

While the Magna Carta is now 800 years old, it was about 200 years earlier when the rule was established by Rabeinu Gershom, that one must never read other people's letters:

http://ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_main.php/67/Q1/
http://shulchanaruchharav.com/halacha/reading-another-persons-mail-or-emails-or-whatsappsms-messages-without-permission/
http://torah.org/learning/business-halacha-5757-vol2no17/

Would you send a letter if you suspected that the postman would read it?
Would you talk on the phone if you suspected that anyone was eavesdropping?

Then you must draw the necessary conclusion: keep away from such places and instruct your children too to stay away from evil.

In any case, what a fool would expect to receive a "free" comunication service? Would anyone in their right mind believe that American corporations are charity organisations that offer their services because they love you? Obviously their very existence is for trapping you, getting your information, then use it against you by sending their scammers and advertisers after you.

Now suppose that for some reason you do want to share some ideas with strangers - why won't you do so anonymously? In the good old days, you could write letters to the editor of a newspaper and whether published or not, you could be confident that your personal details remained safe with the editor alone.

A couple of years back I wrote an article that was overwhelmingly supportive of feminism ; but I held the reservation that the term 'mansplaining' could potentially be misappropriated simply to silence a rival. I also argued that a 'men's' rights' was possible that was not anti-feminist ; that supported feminism re: equality in the home, in sport, in public life, the labour market etc ; but for instance that falling male academic participation was a real problem.

I was hauled over the coals for several days and nights on Facebook with people I thought I could trust turning on me an condemning me as a 'misogynist'. One person I thought I could trust as a friend tried to get me to publicly 'admit' I was a 'misogynist' as if that would make me worthy of 'forgiveness'.

I still support feminism. My views there haven't changed. But there are people out there who will do and say anything to anyone so that they completely control the narrative. It's a kind of cultural Terror. Yes, sometimes it goes too far.

Hi Diver Dan,

Yes, actually: working in Indigenous university student support, I expressed misgivings about a policy change which I thought moved Indigenous education more towards apartheid, by attempting (in the nicest way possible) to channel Indigenous students towards enrolling only in Indigenous-oriented courses, and sub-degree courses at that, and avoiding 'white' courses: standard, mainstream courses. My annual contract was not renewed. Does that count ?

Fortunately since then, the vast majority of Indigenous students have made up their own minds and chosen standard, mainstream courses. Of the twenty-thousand-odd students currently enrolled, I would estimate that more than 90 % are enrolled in standard, mainstream courses. Of the sixty-thousand-odd graduates, I'd say that more than fifty thousand have graduated in standard, mainstream courses.

I have far more confidence in the sense of Indigenous students than their self-appointed 'education leaders', of whom the great majority are total wastes of space.

Cheers,

Joe