There Is No Cabal

There Is No Cabal (abbreviated TINC[1]) is a catchphrase and running joke found on Usenet.[2] The journalist Wendy M. Grossman writes that its appearance on the alt.usenet.cabal FAQ reflects conspiracy accusations as old as the Internet itself.[3] The anthropologist Gabriella Coleman writes that the joke reveals "discomfort over the potential for corruption by meritocratic leaders".[2]

There Is No Cabal symbol

History

The phrase There Is No Cabal was developed to deny the existence of the backbone cabal, which members of the cabal denied. The cabal consisted of operators of major news server newsgroups, allowing them weld greater control over Usenet. [4]

gollark: Is there a repair or fsck tool you can run?
gollark: The popular example is those Therac machines, but IIRC they didn't cause that many deaths compared to this.
gollark: It annoys me that papers aren't shipped as HTML or something which I can actually view conveniently at different screen sizes.
gollark: I wonder if they made some kind of Verilog to JBIG2 compiler internally.
gollark: There is lots of "temporary" test stuff.

See also

References
  1. "TINC". The Jargon File. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. Coleman, E. Gabriella (2013). Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Princeton University Press. pp. 127, 136. ISBN 978-0-69-114460-3. cabal.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Grossman, Wendy M. (2001). From Anarchy to Power: The Net Comes of Age. New York University Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-81-473141-4. cabal.
  4. "backbone cabal". The Jargon File. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
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