MySpace isn't cool, it isn't hip and it isn't trendy. It represents a cyber trojan horse and the media elite's last gasp effort to reclaim control of the Internet and sink it with a stranglehold of regulation, control and censorship.

Since Rupert Murdoch's $580 Million acquisition of MySpace in July 2005, it has come from total obscurity to now being the 8th most visited website in the world, receiving half as many page hits as Google, despite the fact that on first appearance it looks like a 5-year-old's picture scrap and scribble book.

MySpace is the new mobile phone. If you don't have a MySpace account then you belong to some kind of culturally shunned underclass.

What most of the trendy wendy's remain blissfully unaware of is the fact that MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's battle axe for shaping a future Internet environment whereby electronic dissent, whether it be against corporations or government, will not tolerated and freedom of e-speech will cease to exist.

Oh, I love "the conspiracy" perspective on just about anything. This site is chock full of conspiracy theories. I've explained the origin of my love for conspiracy theories many times before, but its always worth repeating. Conspiracy theories get repeated. Its the nature of the game.. It can't be resisted. It all started when I worked at this gourmet tex-mex place in Belmar, New Jersey called Hell's Kitchen. The owner of this truly great establishment could best be described as a "conspiracy theory router". Everything was open game from government police state plots and tales of black helicopters, to UFOs and the second coming of Christ. The back office of the place was stocked with supplies, firearms, and short wave radios. This back office held all the secrets of the universe, including the most closely guarded secret of the ages: what salsa we used. "The end times are here my friend. The shits going down! What do you want on your taco?"

You name it, I heard about it, at length. Too much length usually. It did wonders to fine tune my bullshit detector. It got to the point where I had to do serious and constant research to keep sanity in check. I truly loved every moment of it.

Good conspiracy theories always have a few things in common.. They start off with something completely plausible and (sometimes) reasonable, even if its an incitement of something. By the end, they wind up some place way off the reservation of reality, but go close enough to the edge every so often to keep it all almost somehow plausible. The bullshit detector is forced to align against many angles of incidence. The conspiracy theory must do this while at the same time avoid introducing any new information. The end result of the message must always be "it is inevitable, and we are completely screwed".

At some point in the middle of the conspiracy theory process, it is of critical importance to take several "facts" of concrete and/or questionable origin (it often doesn't matter which) and combine them in a manor like this:

The Pentagon admitted that they would engage in psychological warfare and cyber attacks on 'enemy' Internet websites in an attempt to shut them down. The fact that the NSA surveillance program spied on 5,000 Americans tells us that the enemy is the alternative media and that it will be targeted for elimination. Google has been ordered to turn over information about its users by a judge to the US government.

When done in spoken form, "facts" much be referred to as "official" when and wherever possible. It is always necessary to define some villain, and include at least two of the usual suspects: The United States military and/or government, "Europe" (must be referred to as a single body), and/or the Masons. In fact, a conspiracy theory that doesn't tie into the Masons somehow, at least tangentially, is borderline invalid. Organizations such as the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, the WTO, and the World Bank should be used as well, but direct reference to the Bavarian Illuminati should only be used in the context of the thing that links it all together. It's ideal to include one fraternal organization, and one organization with a government or economic basis. This offers the most room for expansion.

A good conspiracy theory is a little like a horror movie. It focuses on the victim, only the victim is you and everything that you hold dear. It's a direct assault on your personal sense of power, and a call to battle that comes with faulty ammo. One ounce of truth for every 5 tons of flax.

If my opinion, its highly enjoyable to engage a conspiracy theorist as a representative of the conspiracy. Try it sometime! Start by sharing slightly improved versions of a few of the "facts" they are using, with more accurate information that supports their perspective. Give them information resources for the facts you share. Then, very subtly, start referring to the conspiracy as "we", instead of "them" or "they". It usually takes a little while for them to catch on. When they do, and you start to notice distrust and suspicion reflecting itself in their body language, say something like this: "Conspiracy theories are actually the most powerful tools we have. By dispersing weak arguments with flawed information, we rob the opposition to the grand design of its ability to fight anything, at any level, without looking like complete morons. Why do you think this crap never gets any wide spread traction? It's not like people want to be slaves or anything." The response from that point varies, drastically.... Remember, logic of any type is useless and detrimental at any stage in the engagement.

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MySpace Is The Trojan Horse Of Internet Censorship (Plus, thoughts on conspiracy theories)