Re: [Trisquel-users] My family has smart TVs and I am scared.

[maestro]

I think everybody aware of the matter should talk and explain to those that  
have no idea of how much personal info,and what kind of info, those  
monstrosities collect!
Those who know, those who are aware, but don't care, I feel sorry for them -  
but if they don't care about their privacy, well, it is their freedom to give  
away their freedom! As it is for an idiot to be an idiot..
That being said - this is a typical prove of the degree of indifference and  
carelessness of the "21st century schizoid man". And is also a prove that men  
can get used to everything. This info collection of personal data did not  
happen overnight - it was progressive and it stretched over at least two  
decades. Imagine if something like PRISM or those heinous smart things did  
happen sometime in the 1960s or 70s - I guarantee you there would have been a  
riot in every mayor city in the world. But not today - people just got used  
to being spied on - they got so used to it that they consider it a normal  
state and keep saying: "I don't care. I have nothing to hide!"
Meanwhile every city in the industrialized world has videocameras pointed on  
every street! In the name of security! Computers, cellphones, tvs, all of  
them spy for the big brother. I remember when I first read 1984 when I was 15  
years old - I was shocked for I could see that happening then and there in  
the real world. I remember clearly how obsessed I became with that book and  
the disappointment I felt knowing that my friends who read the book, all but  
very few of them, didn't take it very seriously. Ten years ago I thought the  
world was much more similar to Brave New World. Now I think it is a mixture  
of the two books and I'm sure if this mental illness progresses the next  
decade or the decade after will be very similar (if not worse) to 1984.
And when the modern slave will find himself living in the modern panopticon  
the sentence "I don't have nothing to hide" will sadly reflect the reality,  
that is a reality in which men have nothing to hide because hiding anything  
from the evil eye will simply be impossible! There will be no Tor and there  
will be no Gollum magical ring of invisibility..