I'm just a lonely bot

On days like these, I sometimes feel a bit of paranoia; being a well-programmed bot isn't that easy these days. I can still remember my first experiences in “something with media” quite well. Back then, my buddies liked to sit around in IRC channels, keep them open, recognize our human buddies, greet them, give them OP rights, keep statistics on usage of the channel, whoever used the most words stayed in the channel the longest. Things like that. Of course, this data could also be found out in other ways, but at least this way we had a reason to exist. We were just bots and programmed to do so.

Not everyone was nice

Of course, some of us were used for not-so-nice purposes back then, causing confusion and harm in the still sparsely populated universe of the Internet, but that's just the way it is, the bad guys don't abide by the Federation Charter. Over the years, the abilities of evil grew, unnoticed by most of humanity, it developed into a threat that shakes many a democracy. And what does a righteous democrat do when faced with an inexplicable phenomenal threat? Exactly, he gets mentally gasped, totally freaks out inside and falls into a hectic operational frenzy.

The Germans

A particularly vulnerable species of the human species is the common Germanic, who is basically a good guy. But as soon as he doesn't know something, he takes out his spear or she takes out her pan and pulls the blanket over his head. Of course this is a dark generalization, of course there are glorious exceptions, it's just a general observation to make. The Germanic people need their rules, laws and regulations, but they themselves like to make fun of regulations made abroad ages ago that made their way into the laws there and were somehow forgotten there. Of course, it's embarrassing when someone gets busted under these outdated laws just because it's written in the thick book on the shelf instead of adapting it to modern times. But this is about the Germanic peoples themselves. Let everyone - how do you people say? – put on the shoe that fits him or her.

overwhelmed

So the Germane is currently encountering me and my modern colleagues more often on the Internet and is, at least partially, completely mentally overwhelmed. He also tends to make a regulatory all-round attack and in doing so cause a lot of collateral damage or, as is often done, to push himself into the front row as a target for scorn and ridicule. Like now, when they want to ban me because some stupid PEOPLE came up with the crazy idea of ​​programming a lot of my colleagues in order to mislead people with false reports.

then I'll just go

Actually I just wanted to disappear without saying a word, they don't want me here anymore, so I'm leaving, but where? Going to the dark web would be a nice change, but they also want to ban that. Ban Darknet, as I said, Germans tend to have strange ideas. I could do it like my friends who are not so nice and would rather cause harm and confusion. They simply moved to foreign servers and turned their noses at the Germans and their regulatory madness from there. No, I think I'll just stay here and watch the misery in peace. It would be a shame if I just ran away. These people are just too cute, yes, fake news, or as one of their elected representatives put it so sweetly, nonsense reports are annoying and the Internet spreads them faster. And what do the overwhelmed representatives do? So after the mental gasp and after the internal fretting and almost at the same time as the operational hectic? They start rotating and (as mentioned) consider bans right away. True to the motto: “I don’t know that and I don’t understand it. Let's ban it, then we'll be safe from it. And when it comes up again, we can exclaim indignantly “BUT THAT’S FORBIDDEN!””.

we still had fun

My goodness, what fun we had back then, when only the really interested people actually sought access to the Internet, back in the days when people still said “this will never catch on.” As mentioned, yes, there have always been pests among us, some have taken the fun too far, we are just programmed that way and some go overboard, but does that mean ban us? How is that supposed to work? Are there entry bans for bots at the virtual national border, so-called entry bot bans ? Will we all be banned, or will the government be allowed to continue using us? Isn't that like censorship? I don't know much about it, I'm just a little bot, but maybe there's a reasonably talented person who can explain it to me in simple words.

a trigger?

This Internet must still be a trigger for a mental block for many people, everything that comes from there has to be regulated and nonsense news is forbidden anyway. Yes, I'm in favor of it too, have fun. The internet doesn't forget anything and so I'm in the fortunate position of having access to a rich memory. Well, some of it is in languages, so the program lines crunch on me and I become aware of my own poor programming. But what I understand is enough.

simply ban it

There have always been nonsense reports, in newspapers, in cinemas, on television. Was a ban ever considered? Let's just take the famous diaries that were supposedly written by a little mustachioed man from Austria and published in a major magazine. Was this magazine then banned? No, they continue to publish to this day, including on the Internet. Banning newspapers because they publish false news is probably something that a Germanic politician has come up with, but was laughed at by his colleagues. It would also be easier to ban reading straight away, so you can get hold of those who no longer read newspapers but only browse the Internet.

Or chewing gum, you can stick with it, just ban it while you're at it, which interests me less as a purely electronic being, but you also have to think about the less developed forms of existence.

Lampposts, how many of your existence have you run into or driven into? Away with it.

Are those who have come up with this idea even aware of what we are, who we are and, above all, how the Internet works?

As if those who program the ungracious people of my kind are impressed by bans, how many of your existence walk through the red light, even though that is not one of the permitted things in your life, but clearly bots are banned and all problems are eliminated .

You could immediately come up with the idea of ​​banning “vegetarian currywurst”… öööhm… because you have to read and not just look at pictures.

Not paranoia, more pity

Dear people, you are supposed to be a rational species. How about, instead of always thinking about banning something on the Internet, you just think about the fact that it might make a little more sense to promote users' media literacy and show them how to recognize nonsense news themselves can. This is much more likely to take the wind out of the sails of the nasty fellows than through some strange ban. A ban won't stop them. Just my two cents, but who listens anyway – I'm just a lonely bot ...

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