Re: PRISM

Posted by glen ropella on Aug 30, 2013; 8:48pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/PRISM-tp7583742p7583751.html

[hidden email] wrote at 08/30/2013 12:36 PM:
> The one in the subject line?   They don't have a choice in that.   Just
> like encrypted mail services would have to misrepresent their services to
> customers, because they'd be required to have intercepts available within
> their systems.  So, DuckDuckGo can claim not to track, until they get a
> subpoena and a gag order telling them that they do.

Well, it's not merely (or perhaps even mainly) about PRISM.  It's more about the systemic evil that is an unavoidable consequence of economies of scale ... or even "success".

Google does evil because they're too big.  The symptom is that they're a target for impoverished/lazy organizations like our government.  They do evil because they homogenize and regularize things (despite the overly _entitled_ amongst us us moaning about how they're not homogenous and banal enough).  They're evil in the same way Walmart or Harbor Freight is evil.  Make it all the same, dirt cheap (or free), disposable. Corner the market.  All in exchange for the identities and personalities of your customers.

What's really being bought and sold, here, is individuality and personality.  Perversity is becoming our most valuable asset.  I'll use DDG until/if everyone else begins using it.  Then I'll find some other (dysfunctional) search tool to use. 8^)

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⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella
Swan diving off the tongues of crippled giants
 

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