{"id":4058,"date":"2009-10-25T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2009-10-25T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T02:06:01","slug":"the-immutable-laws-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-immutable-laws-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immutable Laws of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"
The London Telegraph<\/i> has a list<\/a> of “10 of the most important” immutable laws of the internet. Some, like Godwin’s Law<\/a>, we all know about. Check out the rest—if you’ve ever engaged in online discussions, you’d surely have come across them all.<\/p>\n I particularly liked Poe’s Law:<\/p>\n Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I’ve long believed that Indians are irony deficient, but perhaps I was being unfair—maybe it holds for everyone. The earliest example of satire being mistaken for the real thing that I can think of came from Ireland, after all: Jonathan Swift<\/a>‘s awesome essay, “A Modest Proposal.”<\/a> <\/p>\n (Links via email from Deepak Iyer<\/a> and Arun Simha<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The London Telegraph<\/i> has a list<\/a> of “10 of the most important” immutable laws of the internet. Some, like Godwin’s Law<\/a>, we all know about. Check out the rest—if you’ve ever engaged in online discussions, you’d surely have come across them all.<\/p>\n I particularly liked Poe’s Law:<\/p>\n Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I’ve long believed that Indians are irony deficient, but perhaps I was being unfair—maybe it holds for everyone. The earliest example of satire being mistaken for the real thing that I can think of came from Ireland, after all: Jonathan Swift<\/a>‘s awesome essay, “A Modest Proposal.”<\/a> <\/p>\n (Links via email from Deepak Iyer<\/a> and Arun Simha<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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