Posted by lil' jimi on October 17, 2003, at 11:14:59
In reply to jim, posted by justyourlaugh on October 17, 2003, at 9:58:56
hi,
i understand that we have lost our rights to privacy in any applicable sense ... ... ...
(and that was the case before our rights were attacked and eesentially shredded by the "PATRIOT Act" and it's dangerous prepetrators
... ... ... 'dangerous' in the sense of threatening our constitutional rights to individual freedoms ... ... )yet
i feel
as if the
increased facility, convenience and ease
with which Google is enabling the trespassing on our privacy,
has the effect of turning
such trespasses
into
a casual, implusive
whim
... ... available to the widest possible population of threats
...
... whereas, when one was going to have to exert some degree of research effort (however meager) into violating our privacy, this was a barrier ... albeit one that was all too low, before ...... and as a matter of principle we should feel obligated to oppose this erosion of our personal liberties as best we can ... ... and i feel that Google's new service enables the implusively or idly or opportunistically malicious to be more of a threat ... ...
... and those are the concerns about personal and family safety .... .... the situation as far as our privacy, for protection from intrusion by the government is too tragic for me to discuss civilly here ...
... and even if it is all hopeless and i am just tilting at the shadows of the windmills now long fallen
... ... i still tilt
... ... i will still tilt
... ... because i remember when i lived in a country where it did matter
... ... and i love that country
.... .... and i miss it ... ... verymuch
~ jim
p.s.
and
just in case i am too uncivilized ... ...
i am at yellowdogjim at yahoo
poster:lil' jimi
thread:270075
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20031011/msgs/270212.html