On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
I wouldn't mind a world where privacy is a thing of the past, as
What's the url to your lifecam again?
long as the playing field is reasonably level.
It will never be level once info leaves your personal space. Left unrestricted, others will collect and collude against you. That evil bit of humanity isn't changing on any relavant timescale.
to information is the key to controlling whole societies; both
That't why you must have control over your information. So that you are not controlled. That's more tangibly grasped and likely... than trying to completely rewrite peoples brains to think that eliminating privacy will somehow work to expose and nullify attempted collection, collusion, and control.
secrecy and propaganda are essential to the operation of any repressive regime. Could authoritarian State and Corporate institutions exist in a world without privacy
Institutions are different from personal... many here could make the case that the world would be better if those two lose their privacy.
A world where control of news, information, education and entertainment is diffused across tens of millions of actors?
Diffuse it however you want, it's still control of four things that need no control.