A point demonstrated rather unfortunately by the blurb for his appearance at an Open Rights Group event next week which takes a swipe at online activities which are:
founded on mere "practical convenience" I (think I) know the point being made and am sympathetic to it (e.g. taking privacy seriously does mean putting in more effort and work at various stages such as software development), but to rail against 'mere practical convenience' strikes me as a fantastic way of getting people to think you're wrong, Mark On 27 October 2011 16:20, Francis Irving <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed - both geeks, and people on the left, are particularly bad at > such framing, at least in recent years. > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:56:50PM +0100, Tim Green wrote: > > But you need them to make yourself look reasonable and shift the frame > > of debate. (cf. Assange). > > > > On 27/10/11 15:54, Mark Goodge wrote: > > >On 27/10/2011 15:45, Francis Irving wrote: > > >>The world of open data could do with some similarly extreme people, to > > >>encourage the others. > > > > > >I'm not convinced. If we wheeled in an RMS-alike to a meeting with > > >ministers then they'd a) run a mile, and b) dismiss us all as cranks. > > > > > >Mark > > > > >
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