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government) have already taken it from you!
• Google Earth can now watch you at street level. Without your
consent. Goodbye privacy.
Nicholas Carr says the internet will “ destroy privacy, promote
oppression and maybe subjugate the human race to artificial
intelligence” (Nature 452 20 March 2008 p 287)
Your fathers so recently shed their blood on the battle fields of Europe, Africa and the
Pacific to protect your freedom and now you just gave it away to a search engine for a few
alms.
In 1993 and 1996, at the dawn of the (widespread use) of the Internet, the internet pioneer, John
Gilmore said “the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”. How wrong he was.
John Barlow, a cyber libertarian, said “you have no moral right to rule o us, nor do you possess any
methods of enforcement that we have true reason to fear: (Nature 452 13 March 2008 p 155). Sounds
so naïve.
Such people truly believed that the Internet would emancipate humanity, little could they see it only
has enslaved us. How could they not realize that government and the corporate sectors would not
quickly see the potential here to usurp all our freedoms, control us and to force us to buy their
products?
Internet censorship (filtering) is rife in 26 countries (China, Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific).
Corporations routinely monitor employees’ emails, including in the US (whatever happened to the
idealism of the US Constitution in regards to freedom of speech).
Political Surveilannace
Read this article in the NYT (7/11/07: Yahoo Executives defend company in China Case).
“Human rights and freespeech advocates have lambasted U.S. companies including Google Inc.
(NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) for helping the Chinese government stifle
the flow of ideas in exchange for greater access to the country’s rapidly growing Internet market. But
the convictions of Shi and another Chinese journalist Yahoo provided information about have focused
the most strident criticism on Yahoo”
Lenin said that a capitalist will sell you the rope which you use to hang him. This is what is happening
with the big search engines.
We have signed/searched away all our freedoms.
The Internet is the biggest blunder in modern human history.
It is the ultimate control of the masses, not even George Orwell/Eric Blair could have foretold this in his
book 1984; that we would all run so willingly to sign away all our freedoms. What a disaster for
mankind. It is the ultimate dream of any totalitarian state.
Before it’s too late, turn off the net, cancel your email, do NOT do net banking, and return to
postal letter (the most secure and private of communication). The net is only for frivolous
communication which does not count. Remember it is a permanent record of you held by someone
with huge commercial interests in selling on this information.
2007 New Nobel laureate for literature, Doris Lessing, in her acceptance condemned the internet and
said it “seduced a whole generation into its inanities and created a world where people know nothing”.
(SMH 10 Dec., 07). Even Elton John wants it shut down (claiming it kills creativity)
The Internet is a bounty hunter which can track you down. Google earth can be used to track people
around the globe and Keep a watch on the front door of your house. Happy with this? Try it; I could
keep an eye on the wife emerging from the front door of an apartment in down town Australia.
Health Surveillance
Now a major net company want to put your health records online.
Of course, there will be lots of guarantees about your safety and confidentiality. In Nov 2007, the
British government lost information on half its population (The personal and bank details of 25 million
people almost every child in the country as well as their parents and carers have been lost by HM
Revenue & Customs, the Government admitted today. Names, addresses, dates of birth, employment
and bank details all went missing when two CDs containing the information were mislaid. Times online
20/11/07) because some junior in government posted a CD in ordinary post rather than registered
post. But remember, that Governments (? now read Big Corporations) only use information against
you and never to benefit you.
Don’t hand over your: Health care info/DNA profile/Tax or work info to any of these people.
And don’t come at the response that they already know they only know in sketchy terms, do not help
them to nail you down further. Too many young men have fallen in the wars of the 20th Century
defending freedoms to just give it away now.
The Chinese government has over 30,000 IT people checking/ screening the emails of its citizens for
‘subversive’ activities.
Workplace Surveillance
Microsoft with patent to “monitor you” ;( Microsoft seeks patent for office ‘spy’ software;
16/1/08;
www.technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece)
This monster is growing by the day. The internet is taking away all our freedoms and handing
them to the corporate sector. Quote: “Microsoft is developing Big Brotherstyle software capable of
remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.” The system could
also “automatically detect frustration or stress in the user” and “offer and provide assistance
accordingly”. Physical changes to an employee would be matched to an individual psychological
profile based on a worker’s weight, age and health. If the system picked up an increase in heart rate or
facial expressions suggestive of stress or frustration, it would tell management that he needed help”: