[opendtv] Re: The Only Answer Is Less Internet
- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "brewmastercraig" for DMARC)
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:58:06 -0400
On Apr 14, 2019, at 9:57 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, let's not overstate things.
Actually I think the author UNDERSTATED the reality of the loss of privacy and
growth of “Big Brother,” in the West.
This has little to do with the social shaming and attacks on freedom of speech
that the Internet has enabled. Never in the history of mankind have our leaders
had the ability they enjoy today, to track almost everything we do. The ONLY
quasi protection of privacy we still have is the sheer number of people to keep
track of. But machines are learning how to look for specific behaviors; we are
told that we may need to get government involved with the regulation of
“algorithms.” And the people who are creating these algorithms are begging the
government to regulate them...
They understand that this is the best way to protect their new 21st Century
monopolies.
So the question remains, how to protect ourselves given this new reality.
Bert thinks it’s all about personal responsibility - just don’t use the
services that are causing the problems discussed in the article.
People should know enough to refrain from participating in sites expressly
designed to propagate one's rants and raves to the world, obviously, or even
to a gymongous number of one's supposed "friends." That's just common sense.
It doesn't mean less Internet. It means smarter use of the Internet.
Unfortunately, ANY use of the Internet exposes us to exploitation. The police
are now using geo location information collected by Google and others. Why
bother assigning a human to surveil someone, when you can track their every
move?
It would be much more foreboding if there were evidence of one's e-mail
becoming disseminated freely, by ISPs. E-mail does come with a presumption of
privacy, same as snail mail. Although if that did begin to happen, one could
resort to end-to-end-encryption.
End-to-end encryption is the most powerful tool that consumers can employ to
protect privacy. But even with encryption, bugs are routinely exploited to
disseminate juicy personal information; and then there is the human flaw of
exposing other peoples information when they want to retaliate.
Small wonder every government in the world is trying to get back doors into
every Internet service and device, or simply ban the use of encryption within
their borders. Too bad the bad guys know how to create their own encryption
techniques...
It's all a matter of self-control. Just as it was in the MVPD era, causing
prices to go higher and higher. Complete lack of self-control comes at a
price, to that person.
Obviously there are behaviors that expose people to risks using the Internet.
People are dying trying to take selfies in dangerous situations. “Self Control”
is not the answer. Keeping the government from controlling the Internet would
be a major step in the right direction.
Clearly Bert does not understand this simple fact. Bert loves government
regulation!
And self control had little if anything to do with constantly increasing prices
for MVPD services. That’s how monopolies work...
You can monopolize things people really need or want. The reason government
regulation of Cable pricing did not work is that it was never intended to. It
was a classic case of “intended Consequences” disguised as regulation to
protect us...
And the media conglomerates that evolved from the Golden Age of TV broadcasting.
Regards
Craig
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