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Godwin's Law (also Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is
a mainstay of Internet culture, an adage formulated by
Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states:
   
Godwin's Law
	As an online discussion grows longer, the probability
of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches
one.
   
Godwin's Law

Godwin's Law does not dispute whether, in a particular
instance, a reference or comparison to Hitler or the
Nazis might be apt. It is precisely because such a
reference or comparison may sometimes be appropriate,
Godwin argues in his book, Cyber Rights: Defending
Free Speech in the Digital Age, that overuse of the
Hitler/Nazi comparison should be avoided, as it robs
the valid comparisons of their impact.

Although in one of its early forms Godwin's Law
referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup
discussions,[2] the law is now applied to any threaded
online discussion: electronic mailing lists, message
boards, chat rooms, and more recently blog comment
threads and wiki discussion pages.

That being said, let's get back to our regularly
sparse postings.

Bonifatius Eburhard called Oger


 
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