Should those Americans who value their privacy because they understand its value be punished because a simple majority of their fellow citizens cannot discern the difference between voluntarily exchanging privacy for consumer value from a commercial interest and involuntarily losing your privacy to a government without your consent and with the very real consequences against your rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? F
Facebook cannot imprison me or kill me, and I'm free not to have a Facebook account.
When it comes to the significant differences between a consumer relationship with a commercial interest and a citizen's relationship to their government, Americans would do well to avoid confusing the nature of the two.
Failing to make that distinction is what got us here, where the line between corporations and government has been eroded and nearly erased.
@2 - Charles is better known for the batshit insanity of things like obsession with dead birds, sexual attraction to trees and so on. Goldy has the market on smug cornered.
Privacy is more of a rarity in human history than the norm.
For most of it we lived in small villages and towns and in closely cramped quarters. For those who had it better in castles, the low number of people made it so it was a MTV Real Life special.
cute notion! the NSA as the official "cloud" (as opposed to cloud-what-cloud?)
12,000 years ago. when email was still young. there was a function on the (emacs) editor called "spookbait" which would dump a random string of suggestive keywords that was presumed to key the (then darpa) net observers to save that email; thus adding that to each message their servers would become bogged...yadda.yadda. no such storage limits prevail these days ($8billion for new Utah facility please) i'm sure. -sigh-
Right now, at this very moment I type this text, the Time Machine icon is backing up my Macbook. Wirelessly. With no interaction required by me at all.
Facebook cannot imprison me or kill me, and I'm free not to have a Facebook account.
When it comes to the significant differences between a consumer relationship with a commercial interest and a citizen's relationship to their government, Americans would do well to avoid confusing the nature of the two.
Failing to make that distinction is what got us here, where the line between corporations and government has been eroded and nearly erased.
For most of it we lived in small villages and towns and in closely cramped quarters. For those who had it better in castles, the low number of people made it so it was a MTV Real Life special.
You might say that privacy is not normal.
Please don't tell me you're pushing Trutherism...
12,000 years ago. when email was still young. there was a function on the (emacs) editor called "spookbait" which would dump a random string of suggestive keywords that was presumed to key the (then darpa) net observers to save that email; thus adding that to each message their servers would become bogged...yadda.yadda. no such storage limits prevail these days ($8billion for new Utah facility please) i'm sure. -sigh-
"We're going to snoop on everyone and everything for terrorists and then refuse to acknowledge the ones we find."
Example - The administration still refers to the Ft. Hood shooting as "workplace violence".