From: thekmanrocks@gmail.com   
      
   I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,   
   and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google   
   Groups'   
   partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.   
      
   Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, et al, you have definitively lowered the bar of   
   internet   
   discourse, and provided channels for the dissemination of anonymous hate   
   speech,   
   and conspiratorial falsehoods online.   
      
   Sadly, many members and participants in Usenet and it's distributors, along   
   with   
   participants in moderated subject forums, have gone the low road by abandoning   
   those legitimate channels of intelligent discourse, instead choosing to take   
   their   
   interests into the commercial and political cesspool of "social" media.   
      
   In their place, much like the weeds coming up through cracks in the pavement of   
      
   abandoned roads, are the spammers, the bots, the hockers of illegitimate   
   product.   
      
   I highly encourage those who care about civilized internet to see other means   
   of   
      
   continuing their Usenet discourse, including apps devoted to providing access   
   to   
      
   Usenet Groups.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)