I've been sharpening my pitchfork all morning, preparing for the coming uprising.
Who's got a good source for Internet-fueled Torches? :) More seriously - I'm sorry to see people turning the corner where they feel that the best alternative that they have is to simply stop communicating. It's clear that there are definitely chilling effects being caused by the PRISM program and the Snowden revelations; I don't like the path that our government here in the US seems to have decided to go down. I have it baked into my personal philosophy that a free and open internet, and free and open democratic communication, are vital to the preservation of our civic structure and the sort of society that I want to live in. This is effectively a first amendment issue - we're NOT free to speak as we wish, because the ramifications are unknown and mysterious, and one kangaroo court or another can pick you up and punish you at any time - in secret, without you being able to disclose that you're being pushed into taking actions that are against your will. Because, again, that's just one more thing that you can be punished for. Folks claim that they have "nothing to hide" - I think everyone's got a right not to *think* that they have to have something (worth hiding) in order to need to hide. best, --e --e On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering what people think about Pamela's thoughts on privacy and > shutting down Groklaw? > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 > > I have known implicitly for years that pretty much anything I do (on or off > the internet) can be and probably is being tracked so I do not have much > expectations of privacy anymore. What has changed for me is the more overt > way the governments are using this knowledge. Perhaps it was always like > this and I never noticed. > > What are your thoughts? > > cheers, > > ski > > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
