Regarding this text, quoted from Consumerium:
Failing to comprehend and avoid Consumerium Governance
problems will, in
trolls' view, reduce the odds of success. Be absolutely clear: you are
making real-world enemies here, Tim Starling. And many real-world enemies do
in fact go so far as to kill to protect what they value. No amount of
agreement between this typist and that typist will change that in our
respective lifetimes. Insistence on technological means of arbitration only
escalates the conflicts and makes them worse. "You" as defined by your
typings, trollings and "blocks" are therefore not a person, but part of a
problem. One we intend to address by any means necessary. Your use of
technological power puts you morally in the wrong, by definition. Do not
align your body with your tools. It's a fatal mistake, and one most people
learn only when it's far too late, when they realize their tools cannot
protect them from whatever trolls they sought to silence. You are not owed
warnings - from here, it's next stop abyss. The next troll may be armed with
something more than truth and typing.
It is difficult for me to read this as anything other than a death
threat. Pure bluster, perhaps, but I worry about this guy.
The elements here that I find most troubling --
1. The dehumanization -- that you are not a person.
2. The specific references to death and violence "fatal mistake" and
"you are making real-world enemies here".
--Jimbo