Internet law
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The Internet has led to the development of a burgeoning field of legislation wherein amateur lawmakers seek, in the manner of Murphy's Law, to glibly describe certain aspects or observations regarding internet behaviour in general and, more specifically, debates and discussions on usenet groups and internet forums.
Warning: Internet law tends neither to be logically rigorous nor evenly applied. It often commits fallacies. Invocation of individual laws is usually a time-saving device used to prevent one from being dragged into an argument with someone who will under no circumstance alter one's own opinion.
Internet law is not to be confused with the rules of the Internet, which are mostly about porn and memes.
Internet law is upheld by various people with sysop powers or similar. Oh shi-
Some of the Laws
This is a brief overview of the laws. For examples, see the main articles.
- Godwin's Law - or reductio ad hitlerum, states that comparing something to the Nazis is inevitable.
- Arken's Law - as above, but with 1984 instead of Nazis.
- Danth's Law - states that anyone who declares themselves victorious, has probably done so because they've lost.
- DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
- Pommer's Law - a person's mind can be changed by reading the internet; they'll go from "no opinion" to "the wrong opinion".
- Cohen's Law - whoever resorts to the argument that whoever resorts to the argument that whoever resorts to the argument...
- Poe's Law - without a blatant display of humour, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't take as real.
- Scopie's Law - citing webshites should disqualify you from the human race.
- Timecube Law - the longer the page, the more lunatic the author.
- Law of exclamation - the amount of truth is inversely proportional to the amount of exclamation and ALL CAPS used.
- Skarka's Law - no matter how vile or indefensible it is, someone will post positively or in defense of it.
- Grey's Law - any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil.
- Skitt's Law - grammar is a bitch, and is likely to bite you on the arse at any time.
- Shaker's Law - those who egregiously announce their imminent departure from an Internet discussion forum almost never actually leave.
- The Dull-man Law - in any discussion involving science or medicine, being Dana Ullman loses you the argument immediately…and gets you laughed out of the room.
- Muphry's Law - In any correction you make there is almost certainly bound to be an error.
- Haig's Law - The worse a website looks, the more likely it was made by a crazy person.
External links
- The Telegraph - Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe Although this mostly cites RW as its source, it does lend us an air of
smugnesscredibility. - The above article was mentioned by PZ Myers.