In Defense of Stockman/poker rigged?

[PokerHorse]

Although I dont believe everything that Stockman says, The truth of the matter is that there are many many experienced players who when the internet first started felt exactly the same way. And many still do. lets just try to look at the facts for a minute. I'm not expressing an opinion at this point so look at the truth and then decide.
#1- There is no regulation or enforcement...Period.
the idea that a poker site would not risk being closed because they are making large sums from the rake, isnt true, because there is no risk. Who is regulating them???
No one.
#2- in order to make maximun rake, you want all players to stay in the game longer. How do you achieve this? One way is to have promotions to get new players in, etc. Tourneys and so on.(the cheating way would be to manipulate games)
#3-It is POSSIBLE to program the software to alter the games and remain virtually undetectable.(again ,'m not sayin it is, but it is possible).
many of us know computer geeks.All the really knowledgable ones I know laugh at me for playing online. Not a good feeling.
#4- It is impossible to make a truly random number or card generator. (There was a big controversy over a programmer in vegas who handled the slots, and tried to warn the casinos that they had a big problem on there hands, as patterns could be detected.)

#5- i play online, I'm a tight player(i know,who cares), and i can honestly say that I have experienced tremendous swings of 180-200 bets going up and down. there has not been much middle ground in my results. I'm either on a unbelievable winning streak, or a major losing streak. no inbetween. At 55-65 hands per hour I'm curious why the swings would increase so drastically from my 20-40 game I have been playing for 18 years? I've read some of the explanations, but there are bad players in both worlds.

Does this mean that its all rigged? No, ... but what it does mean is that the internet experience can make rational normal people feel like something is happening.
My only question is why the streaks. Bad beats, luck drawouts happen everyday, but either swinging straight up or straight down doesnt occur with any type of regularity
in live games.
So, instead of laughing at Stockman, understand that there are actually very rational reasons for people being skeptical.
good luck