Torproject disease infects WhatsApp - User experience trumps(sic) security

[Razer]

On 01/15/2017 09:31 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
>
>
> A work in progress:
>
> A Millenials' Digital Bill Of Rights
>
> We hold these truths to be self evident, that all First World Middle
> Class tweens, teens and 20-somethings are created superior, and are
> endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable digital rights
> including:
>
> To have their personal needs anticipated and met without effort on
> their part.
>
> To do exactly as they please at all times with no chance of
> destructive consequences.
>
> To maintain high bandwidth 24/7 ominplexed network participation with
> full privacy and security.
>
> To by protected from abuse of State and Corporate power by State and
> Corporate actors.
>
> Our up and coming Consumers did not choose these self- and mutually
> contradictory demands themselves; they have been indoctrinated by a
> seamless lifelong sales campaign, a uniform front of instant
> gratification product offerings and attractively packaged Experiences.
>  No "conspiracy" was required to implement this program; it arose
> naturally from commercial competition.  But this spontaneously
> self-organized Standard has been recognized, formalized, and is now
> consciously pursued by every significant vendor in the consumer
> electronics, software and network services sphere.  The market has
> spoken and the UX future is now.
>
> A monitored life for every consumer, in the cybernetic sense of the
> word monitored, has now become a conscious and calculated goal:  An
> egocasting bubble for every consumer, unbreakable walls of contempt
> and alienation between every pseudo-tribe, a navigation funnel for
> every human need, and a grand illusion of personal autonomy for every
> captive consumer.  All consumers shall be sold both aspirations and
> the fulfillment of those aspirations in an eternally self adjusting
> feedback cycle of surveillance and adaptive stimulation.
>
> Users?  Please.  General purpose programmable computers in private
> hands create problems, not Solutions.  Laughable wannabe-elitist
> Lusers are already being phased out of society, and good riddance.  We
> will of course need a /few/ thoroughly vetted and deeply dependent
> grunt workers to design and program devices to meet sales and
> marketing objectives.  There will also be deviant technophiliac rats
> in the walls of the global village, but exterminators make money you kno
> w.
>
>

> "And our children will live ... to see that perfect world in which
> there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and
> ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a
> common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all
> necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."
> -Arthur Jensen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiT30N6ti4

Text Available at American Rhetoric:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html

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