I never thought FR was about the scoop so much as expert armchair analysis of the scoop - especially calling out the BS of some “scoops”.
Too much jaundiced cynical hostilities too soon in the dialogues about important changing trends can blow vital issues, facts and efforts out of the water and thereby sabotage our own shared FREEPER goals and values. Some folks demand laboratory level 100% proof of facts well before such are remotely possible. That's stupid.
Reasonable skepticism is helpful.
Chronic, reflexive, prissy, haughty, self-righteous constant rock throwing is not helpful, not rational, not wise.
back before I was eccl1212 and Missing In Action... it was ALL about the scoop.
Back then some folks here leaked items in a safer to leak time... early whitewater and just before...
It was a place scanned by news sources for the scoop. and by government agencies for leakers...
there were private owners of some backbone components to what is now the WWW. some had and provided anonymous proxies that went through alternate means of data provision and not as much long term logging of users, searches and archiving.
Pre carnivore. prism. and the snowden types running the show.
NOW we are monitored here constantly.
All providers, are supposed to maintain logs of query traffic and mapping of data routes. And the backbone has more taps than users.
the breaking stuff happens on facebook... or tweet, or some other harder to nail down source for ‘instant reporting’.
Back then this site was a dark blue screen on my terminal with no pictures or attachments... and navigation was by hand typed selection of links... old lynx browser...
I am officially. Old.