{"id":257,"date":"2003-11-16T03:28:26","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T08:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/16\/the-hinternet\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T23:13:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:13:23","slug":"the-hinternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/16\/the-hinternet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hinternet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Interesting post that I found on the ‘hinternet’:<\/p>\n


\nWhile I manage to fend off pop-up windows with Mozilla, and spam with Spamassassin, most people don’t know about those programs. They live in the “hinternet”, that shanty-town of X10 pop-ups and porn adware, and endless, endless Hotmail and Yahoo spam. They’re tourists in the world of the Net, and like any tourist, they rarely get a good guide.
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Yep, I’ve seen plenty of lost people in the Internet. I try my best to help the people I come in direct contact with but frankly there’s only 1 of me versus x (which is a much larger number than me) to help. And for many of them the problems are barely even a real problem because they ARE tourists. Try telling a tourist to Japan about all the underlying problems in Japanese society and see the type of response you get from a tourist. (Actually substitute Japan for any country you are in)
\nI will bet you you’ll get a nod at best but most likely ‘wow that’s neat, where’s the fun stuff to do?’ This is a real hard problem and techies trying to find the ‘large scale solution’ will end up being disappointed in the long run in my opinion. Take a hint from Justen the Grey Wizard from the Recluce series<\/a> by L.E. Modesitt<\/a>. “I do what I can on the small.” Unless you wield lots of power and money and feel this is a problem you want to fight it’s probably the best you can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting post that I found on the ‘hinternet’: While I manage to fend off pop-up windows with Mozilla, and spam with Spamassassin, most people don’t know about those programs. They live in the “hinternet”, that shanty-town of X10 pop-ups and porn adware, and endless, endless Hotmail and Yahoo spam. They’re tourists in the world of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}