tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post4133242974606171715..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: The Dichotomy of....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-40849164273083627572013-08-01T14:39:02.232-05:002013-08-01T14:39:02.232-05:00As I try to recall how long I have been concerned ...As I try to recall how long I have been concerned about privacy on the internet, I'm forced all the way back to when I first began to use the internet to send emails. When I timidly commented on the early blogs under my first pseudonym and then my second pseudonym, I had no real confidence that my identity was hidden.<br /><br />My mobile phone company has records of my calls. Google and Facebook have loads of my information. That's life in the age of the many technical devices and programs we deem necessary for our day to day convenience. So I should be frightened to learn that the government has that same data? Well, perhaps I should be, but I'm not.<br /><br />The Thought Criminal, in your final paragraph, you say what I want to say. I'm more concerned about the feds contracting out access to national security information. <br /><br />Also, TMI, as we say on the intertubes. Having so vast a collection of data seems to me to make it easier to miss vital information about security as the program did with the Tsarnarev brothers, who slipped through the cracks of the enormous apparatus.<br /><br />And I sign with my real name, which anyone interested in knowing who I am can find out simply by visiting my blog.<br /><br />June Butler June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-58189892152713406402013-07-31T08:30:40.731-05:002013-07-31T08:30:40.731-05:00So rich in points, where to start.
"We have ...So rich in points, where to start.<br /><br />"We have the highest percentage of our citizens behind bars of any industrialized country in the world."<br /><br />Ah, but, as the sometimes heard whining about the Friday night prison program on MSNBC shows, those folks are not PLU, they're "those people." Other than a Mumia or a Leonard Pelitier or a Bradley Manning, they're as forgettable as other largely poor people in the hands of the government. <br /><br />to start a “national conversation.”<br /><br />Someone pointed out that when people say they want a "national conversation" these days, they mean they want a TV show hosted by someone like Jim Lehrer having the usual media talking heads on. Things have truly gotten worse with TV becoming the filter of consciousness.<br /><br />"because they are trying not to be the Administration that let the information dam burst, that let all the data horses escape and the teraflop barn burn down."<br /><br />Brilliant point, it could be shortend to "trying to avoid getting blamed for the eventually inevitable by the Republican Party attack machine and the media that comprises that attack machine. I think that almost all of Democratic foreign and all of Democratic administration military policy has been motivated as a reaction to the that Republican-media tag team. It is one of the greatest reasons that Democrats won't do the rational, such as ending wars, gets into them or goe along with them. Until the media is broken up, Republican-corporate control of it destroyed, it be required to tell the truth and serve democracy, things will only get worse and Democrats and real liberals discouraged and weakened. <br /><br />"a crime previously impossible in human history, and now so easy even a Bradley Manning or an Edward Snowden can do it?"<br /><br />If I were Obama, or rather, if her were I, I'd use this to attack the practice of contracting out everything and tightening who has access to really important information. I'd also use it to diminish unnecessary classification of information. But one thing Obama is, he's a team player and the teams are all corporate entities with corrupt motives such as getting government contracts. Obama is weakened by being a thoroughly vetted fixture of that establishment and wanting to be. Sometimes I think that's practically inevitable with Ivy Leaguers.<br /><br /><br /> The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com