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''Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help your black ass?'' | ''Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help your black ass?'' | ||
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America is known as a nation of lawsuits, and its predominant influence among the English-speaking world means there is bound to be litigation the evidence record of which has information about the culture of a website at the time of the suit. | America is known as a nation of lawsuits, and its predominant influence among the English-speaking world means there is bound to be litigation the evidence record of which has information about the culture of a website at the time of the suit. | ||
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** [https://www.scribd.com/embeds/421886442/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-DX2XeMeiQiGvVmdQ3jcp&show_recommendations=true Congressional Subpoena] & [https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/62f5a3_f869c81d6bcb495ebdd137776542fe11.pdf James "Jim" Watkins' Official Testimony] & [https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20850791/8chan-hate-speech-delete-jim-watkins-infinitechan-el-paso-shooting-racist-white-supremacist Article by The Verge] - In its ongoing notoriety after alt-right and incel mass shooters posted their manifestos on the site, N.T. Technologies administrator James "Jim" Watkins (a US Citizen residing in the Philippines) was subpoenaed by Congress to describe the website in full and detail his actions to ban, delete, and regulate such content in the past, present, and future. | ** [https://www.scribd.com/embeds/421886442/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-DX2XeMeiQiGvVmdQ3jcp&show_recommendations=true Congressional Subpoena] & [https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/62f5a3_f869c81d6bcb495ebdd137776542fe11.pdf James "Jim" Watkins' Official Testimony] & [https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20850791/8chan-hate-speech-delete-jim-watkins-infinitechan-el-paso-shooting-racist-white-supremacist Article by The Verge] - In its ongoing notoriety after alt-right and incel mass shooters posted their manifestos on the site, N.T. Technologies administrator James "Jim" Watkins (a US Citizen residing in the Philippines) was subpoenaed by Congress to describe the website in full and detail his actions to ban, delete, and regulate such content in the past, present, and future. | ||
* '''USENET''' - One of the first major non-government online networks in the US, USENET has a massive presence in US judicial precedent in establishing guidelines for online litigation. Given that much of USENET is lost (other than some scattered archives at Google Groups) and its scale and influence may not have even been fully understood by users, many of whom still live online today, the detailed descriptions of it provided by primary sources subpeonaed by litigation are immensely important: especially given that a court case eventually dealt USENET the death blow in its reduced role as a centralized warez network. | * '''USENET''' - One of the first major non-government online networks in the US, USENET has a massive presence in US judicial precedent in establishing guidelines for online litigation. Given that much of USENET is lost (other than some scattered archives at Google Groups) and its scale and influence may not have even been fully understood by users, many of whom still live online today, the detailed descriptions of it provided by primary sources subpeonaed by litigation are immensely important: especially given that a court case eventually dealt USENET the death blow in its reduced role as a centralized warez network. | ||
** [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1678029/arista-records-llc-v-usenet-com-inc/?q=USENET&type=o&order_by=score+desc&stat_Precedential=on | ** [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1678029/arista-records-llc-v-usenet-com-inc/?q=USENET&type=o&order_by=score+desc&stat_Precedential=on Arista Records LLC v. Usenet. Com, Inc., 633 F. Supp. 2d 124 (S.D.N.Y. 2009)] - | ||
* Reddit - Public information about landmark court cases involving Reddit were not found on CourtListener other than broad references to "Reddit LLC" as a subdivision of Conde Nast, or in passing examples, and some individuals with a last name of "Reddit" (???). It is possible that further information may exist in civil litigation. | * Reddit - Public information about landmark court cases involving Reddit were not found on CourtListener other than broad references to "Reddit LLC" as a subdivision of Conde Nast, or in passing examples, and some individuals with a last name of "Reddit" (???). It is possible that further information may exist in civil litigation. | ||
== What Historians Can Uncover from Litigation == | == What Historians Can Uncover from Litigation == | ||
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=== Cuneiform Tablets === | === Cuneiform Tablets === | ||
The Bible tells of many epic legends from the earliest ages of civilization of unknown provenance, that were passed down orally from generation to generation, culture to culture, and place to place until they were finally written down and fixed in time through the Babylonian Talmud by Jewish scholars. In Genesis, God created the Earth and Nature as a paradise, with Adam and Eve as its eternal caretakers. But they were tempted by the Fruit of Knowledge by a serpent, and then cast out by God to suffer the pain of mortality and of hard labor on the land, and their descendants are fated by their act to fill the world with sin as God sees it. The legend of the Tower of Babel depicted how in the age of the ruler Nimrod, who ruled Babel (Babylon), Erech (Uruk), Akkad: Mankind, in its hubris, came together and built great cities and towers, but were struck down by God who made them all speak different languages and unable to coordinate, thus their city was known as Babel (Babylon). Eventually God warns Noah to build a giant wooden Ark and bring his family and two of every animal, whereby they then ride out the storm as civilization collapses around them. Noah then lives for a long period with many God-fearing descendants for his heroism | The Bible tells of many epic legends from the earliest ages of civilization of unknown provenance, that were passed down orally from generation to generation, culture to culture, and place to place until they were finally written down and fixed in time through the Babylonian Talmud by Jewish scholars. In Genesis, God created the Earth and Nature as a paradise, with Adam and Eve as its eternal caretakers. But they were tempted by the Fruit of Knowledge by a serpent, and then cast out by God to suffer the pain of mortality and of hard labor on the land, and their descendants are fated by their act to fill the world with sin as God sees it. The legend of the Tower of Babel depicted how in the age of the ruler Nimrod, who ruled Babel (Babylon), Erech (Uruk), Akkad: Mankind, in its hubris, came together and built great cities and towers, but were struck down by God who made them all speak different languages and unable to coordinate, thus their city was known as Babel (Babylon). Eventually God warns Noah to build a giant wooden Ark and bring his family and two of every animal, whereby they then ride out the storm as civilization collapses around them. Noah then lives for a long period with many God-fearing descendants for his heroism. | ||
Perhaps not coincidentally, these legends were inspired by the oral and written tales of the civilization that held these Jewish scribes captive in Mesopotamia. And when British archeologists made it to Mesopotamia to discover the truth of the Bible, they found that massive ruins in the desert in and around Babylon remained of such towers of lost civilizations, in indecipherable cuneiform tablets. What epic legends must exist in these alien scripts telling of empires almost totally forgotten by all? | Perhaps not coincidentally, these legends were inspired by the oral and written tales of the civilization that held these Jewish scribes captive in Mesopotamia. And when British archeologists made it to Mesopotamia to discover the truth of the Bible, they found that massive ruins in the desert in and around Babylon remained of such towers of lost civilizations, in indecipherable cuneiform tablets. What epic legends must exist in these alien scripts telling of empires almost totally forgotten by all? |