[Freedombox-discuss] Raining on the parade
- Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Raining on the parade
- From: sandyinchina@gmail.com (Sandy Harris)
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:01:35 -0400
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Almost a year ago, Jun 25, 2012, I wrote:
> One risk of the current net is that social
> networks, email providers, etc. can be
> used to track people, in particular to
> track them down when a government is
> irritated with them. Consider Yahoo
> turning in Shi Tao or the US gov't
> demanding Twitter records for people
> involved with WikLeaks.
>
> Those are Morizov's second point; the
> net as a tool for oppression. As I see it,
> preventing that sort of thing is the most
> important goal of the Box project and the
> question of how exactly to manage that
> is critical.
I think the Snowden revelations have made
this topical again.
The original thread has much other good
stuff on this and related topics. I urge
people to reread that discussion.
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