Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Coalition of spooks, suits and vandals
This article in The Guardian paints a tale of digital freedoms under attack as plausible as a hurricane strike on New Orleans. It says, in part:
In an era whose triumphant idea is capitalism, where success is generally measured in the accumulation of wealth, it is hard to conceive of a[n on-line] parallel society established and self-governed on principles of trust and common ownership. But it exists. The biggest aggregation of human experience and knowledge ever created belongs to everyone, it is available on demand and it is free.
But for how long? Ranged against the new culture of digital freedom is a strange coalition of spooks, suits and vandals. There are governments unable to resist the technology that can track our every move; there are corporations lusting after the attention of the 2 billion eyeballs focused on screens; and there are the spammers, clogging up the net with junk mail, hijacking computers to peddle trash.
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The biggest aggregation of human experience and knowledge ever created belongs to everyone, it is available on demand and it is free.
But for how long? Ranged against the new culture of digital freedom is a strange coalition of spooks, suits and vandals. There are governments unable to resist the technology that can track our every move; there are corporations lusting after the attention of the 2 billion eyeballs focused on screens; and there are the spammers, clogging up the net with junk mail, hijacking computers to peddle trash.
The Internet is the mirror of our society, the more users, the more alike.
You find the good and you find the bad.
The bad will try to overcome the good, the good will try to survive.
Good hopes, because the World still exists and still goes on, in spite of all the bad there is in it.
Patrizia
http://woip.blogspot.com
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But for how long? Ranged against the new culture of digital freedom is a strange coalition of spooks, suits and vandals. There are governments unable to resist the technology that can track our every move; there are corporations lusting after the attention of the 2 billion eyeballs focused on screens; and there are the spammers, clogging up the net with junk mail, hijacking computers to peddle trash.
The Internet is the mirror of our society, the more users, the more alike.
You find the good and you find the bad.
The bad will try to overcome the good, the good will try to survive.
Good hopes, because the World still exists and still goes on, in spite of all the bad there is in it.
Patrizia
http://woip.blogspot.com
