**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Jun 29, 2018, 13:36

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Jun 29, 2018, 13:36

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

Godwin's Law in the Age of Trump by... Godwin https://www.rstreet.org/2018/06/25/godwins-law-in-the-age-of-trump/

**Henry Edward Hardy** @hhardy01 · 2018-06-29T18:52:34Z

Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01

@cwebber

Godwin didn't invent "Godwin's Law," Richard Sexton did.

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**Henry Edward Hardy** @hhardy01 · Jun 29, 2018, 18:56

**Henry Edward Hardy** @hhardy01 · Jun 29, 2018, 18:56

@cwebber

"You can tell when a USENET discussion is getting old when one of the
participants drags out Hitler and the Nazis."
- Richard Sexton (http://www.vrx.net/richard/) stating what would later
be known as Godwin's Law, Message-ID <21000@gryphon.COM>, 16 Oct 1989

http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/usenet/legends/godwin.html

**Henry Edward Hardy** @hhardy01 · Jun 29, 2018, 20:03

**Henry Edward Hardy** @hhardy01 · Jun 29, 2018, 20:03

@cwebber

Godwin admitted to me directly that he had read Richard's post on Usenet, and he claimed he still had the right to claim authorship because according to him, he intended this to become a meme and Richard didn't.