Try reading this and then go back to Facebook!
Reading this at breakfast kinda made me think - how about you? With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
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4 comments:
I read the article.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
I once experienced the Security Service of the RCMP intercept and withhold my mail back in the 1970's.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
I once experienced my phone being wiretapped in Cobourg back in the 1970's.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
I once experienced dirty tricks from the RCMP back in the 1970's.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
I once experiencd my apartment being gutted by fire by an arsonist in the 1970's.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
I once had my identity traced via my Social Insurance Number back in the 1970"s.
Why am I not paranoid about Faceboook?
I once was arrested by Polish security in Warsaw in the 1980s for taking pictures of government buildings.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
I once was tailed by Polish police in Lodz in the 1980's.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
I once was tailed and had guns pulled on me by the Securitate in Romania in the 1980's.
Why am I not paranoid about Facebook?
Really!
Facebook is fiction.
So is Howard Hughs.
Visionaries are fiction until their imaginations make a soft landing.
Visionaries make people paranoid.
They tend to upset orthodoxies.
Facebook is becoming an orthodoxy.
This process will be complete in a few more days.
I'm looking forward to the next soft landing.
You must have a very long and leisurely breakfast to have enough time to read all that!
I wasn't even eating when I read it and it gave me indigestion anyway - much like the first posted comment did.
We are all going to hell, no doubt about it.
So saith the dime-a-dozen doyen of dreary dismal anonymity. Read one anonymous banality, read them all. It's easy for cowards to take cheap and shallow potshots while hiding behind the apron strings of anonymous. It's likely that anonymous will stay that way, similar to the way spineless jellyfish submerge themselves below the surface, the better to conceal themselves, to prick and poison the unwary. But then again, one anonmymous is like all the rest -- nobodies.
If you're going to hell, speak for yourself. Pessimists are optimists with a broken heart. Get over it anonymous.
Well the author of the long and tedious article tarring the creators of Facebook with all manner of sinister colours has a credibility deficit. This was the disclaimer published in the Guardian:
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008
The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.
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Seems the unintelligence community in Canada gets all paranoid and icky when certain key words are configured. Typical.
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