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Cases of simple [[vandalism]] "justify" the creation of a police force of sysops.  These are trusted to simply identify and [[block IP]] of vandals.
Cases of simple [[vandalism]] "justify" the creation of a police force of sysops.  These are trusted to simply identify and [[block IP]] of vandals.


However, the [[sysop]]s then exercise their assumed [[God's Eye View]] to create or define their political opponents of various [[faction]]s as "[[trolls]]".  By attaching [[stigma]] to that term they hope to suppress the dissident politics.  Some [[troll organization]]s or just wise individuals make [[troll-friendly offer]]s, e.g. to restore [[troll text]] as a form of resistance to [[sysop vandalism]].  When challenged, '''troll-friendlies''' justify this resistance, and if they remain [[troll-friendly]], the [[sysop power structure]] will actively attempt to censor the troll-supportive material they cite by such unfair means as [[ad hominem delete]] and even by [[libel]].
However, the [[sysop]]s then exercise their assumed [[God's Eye View]] to create or define their political opponents of various [[faction]]s as "[[trolls]]".  By attaching [[stigma]] to that term they hope to suppress the dissident politics.  Some [[troll organization]]s or just wise individuals make [[troll-friendly offer]]s, e.g. to restore [[troll text]] as a form of resistance to [[sysop vandalism]].  When challenged, the justifications that '''troll-friendlies''' use to remain [[troll-friendly]] are brought to light, and attached by such means as [[ad hominem delete]] and even [[libel]].


This necessarily creates even more power struggles as [[technological escalation|sysops use their powers of blocking, deletion and spying]] to obscure or delete all of the theoretical [[gnawlij]] that would help others realize that there is nothing special about the [[Sysop Vandal point of view]] and no reason to let a [[GodKing]] or [[priestly hierarchy]] determine the discourse on any wiki.   
This necessarily creates power struggles as [[technological escalation|sysops use their powers of blocking, deletion and spying]] to obscure or delete all of the theoretical [[gnawlij]] that would help others realize that there is nothing special about the [[Sysop Vandal point of view]] and no reason to let a [[GodKing]] or [[priestly hierarchy]] determine the discourse on any wiki.   


The '''text liberation''', e.g. of [[GFDL corpus]] via [[GetWiki]] etc., then proceeds when everyone realizes [[infrastructure owners trust]] is not needed, and that to [[anarchize]] the whole distribution of texts, e.g. [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s, would simply solve all the sysop vandalism/terror problems.
The '''text liberation''', e.g. of [[GFDL corpus]] via [[GetWiki]] etc., then proceeds when everyone realizes [[infrastructure owners trust]] is not needed, and that to [[anarchize]] the whole distribution of texts, e.g. [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s, would simply solve all the sysop vandalism/terror problems.
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