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Another convective thought that was boosted by studying early telegraphs and semaphores. Learning that the Chappe system was primarily used for Revolutionary propaganda and stock swindles opened my mind to the basic purpose of all widespread communication systems. The earliest electrical telegraphs were meant to run underground to avoid detection and interception.

Reviewing a discussion of 'Benefit of Clergy':

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Sudden question: WHY did they exempt clergy from punishment? It's a peculiar ancient custom, impossible for secular moderns to understand.

Sudden answer: It wasn't because the clergy could read. That was just the marker. The benefit was provided because the clergy heard confession.

Priests knew everyone's secrets. They could reveal everyone's secrets if they were threatened with any loss of privilege.

Sudden insight: And that's why our Web Lords are also exempt, why the SEC and FTC and DOJ and FCC can't touch them.

Zuck knows all of our secrets because he built the confessional and requires us to attend daily. We can't receive full sacraments unless we use Devices that confess all to Zuck.

Elon knows the secrets of his cultists because his rosaries on wheels are constantly reporting location and driver behavior as part of the "machine learning" for the heaven of FSD, which will not arrive until the Second Coding when Lord Elon resurrects as the Holy Emperor Of The Terraformed And Gloriously Carbon-Free Mars Kingdom.

Bezos knows the secrets of his customers, Kalanick knows the secrets of his riders, and so on.

Not so strange after all.

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Primary thought: Benefit of Web was there from the start. NSA originally built the web as a confessional for academic research and corporate communication. NSA could gain indirect access through the postal system and Bell Tel, but the indirect access had to go through other bureaucrats and judges, who could then detect what NSA was trying to accomplish by each search. After the Web brought all communication in-house, "warrants" and external detection were no longer needed or possible.

Later developments are bringing storage and software in-house, via the 'cloud'. All stored INFORMATION and all TOOLS are now subject to instant and unstoppable alteration and confiscation. The power of confiscation was illustrated this week by Adobe, which has cancelled subscriptions in Venezuela for its graphics software. Tech monsters like to insult Trump, but they LOVE to confiscate and kill, so it doesn't matter if the action is dirtied up by association with Trump. Killing is fun. This is the digital equivalent of raiding workshops in another country and stealing all the tools. By all normal standards a clear and obvious act of war.

Secondary: This also explains the "need" for electronic medical records. Before medical records were webified, doctors owned medical info and could use it for their own purposes, which might even include serving patients or letting patients know about their own health. This is INTOLERABLE UNACCEPTABLE ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE. All info must serve Deepstate's blackmailers, and can't POSSIBLY be used to keep Negative Externalities alive. Now all medical info is available to NSA and hackers, and totally inaccessible to patients or other doctors. Best of all possible worlds.

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