proposal for new cyber abbreviation

yes, cyberspace just doesn't have enough acronyms like AFAIK and IANAL etc.
ad nauseam. (I have reason to believe that PTB, or "powers that be" was
actually invented here on this list!!) 

anyway after reading recent messages I propose:

SHTBD!!!!

as in, Something Has To Be Done.

used either seriously or satirically (probably mostly satirically by
everyone here).

example:

"there was a editorialist on TV ranting about the 4 horsemen of the
infocalypse and screeching that SHTBD!!!"

or,

"I was not implying that SHTBD, merely that we are moving into a brave
new world in cyberspace".

or,

"those @#$%^&* online pedophiles are crawling all over the net. SHTBD!!!"

or,

"the @#%^^&* mainstream press is always pointing out new bogeymen
with the concluding moral, SHTBD!!!"


notice that SHTBD is the antithesis of cypherpunk philosophy in that
it tends to imply

1. government intervention
2. coercive force
3. censorship

etc.

hence by using this term and popularizing it, we promote our own agenda
of "cryptoanarchy".

just my small contribution to humanity for today.

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Hello,

"Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> wrote:
 
> yes, cyberspace just doesn't have enough acronyms like AFAIK and IANAL etc.
> ad nauseam. (I have reason to believe that PTB, or "powers that be" was
...
> SHTBD!!!!
> 
> as in, Something Has To Be Done.
...

Proposed extension:

SHTBD/<agent>

eg:

There's a paedophile on the Internet! SHTBD/PTB!

PTB're trying to regulate cyberspace! SHTBD/EFF!

PTB're pushing GAK! SHTBD/C'punks!

And so on. After all, all sides can cry "SHTBD", can't they?


(Home users may prefer the alternate syntax SHTBD\<agent>, ie
SHTBD\PTB, SHTBD\EFF, SHTBD\C_PUNKS etc :-)

...
> used either seriously or satirically (probably mostly satirically by
> everyone here).
> 
> example:
...
> "I was not implying that SHTBD, merely that we are moving into a brave
> new world in cyberspace".

How about something like:
"I was not implying that SHTBD/PTB to stop it, but that SHTBD/us to
support it/deploy it/get ready for it."

...
> notice that SHTBD is the antithesis of cypherpunk philosophy in that
> it tends to imply
> 
> 1. government intervention

Hence the addition of the <agent> field...

> 2. coercive force
> 3. censorship
...

Yet one of your examples implied the opposite - sorry, I nuked it, but
it was about the media picking bogeymen.

...
> hence by using this term and popularizing it, we promote our own agenda
> of "cryptoanarchy".
...

Fortunately for the anarchists, perhaps, an authoritarian government
is isomorphic to anarchy.


Jiri
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