Maybe Google's failure to not make the world worse is being spun into an argument on how all technology has its benefits and evils, but the social benefits from Google's tech appear to be outweighed by its social…
You don't have to commit a crime to be targeted, spied on, harassed and have your life destroyed by the government. When the government spies on innocent people en masse -- because they say they should have nothing to…
Methinks it's time for an anti-trust investigation on Google like the one on Microsoft during the Internet Explorer heyday. At the same time, I don't trust the US has institutions that haven't been sabotaged by…
Every time I see one of those forms I feel like the hungry, desperate sex workers who "consent" to being degraded and humiliated so that they can feed their families for another day... We say "yes," but the head shakes…
I'd rather if they didn't spy on me in the first place...
What's persistently disturbing is that in a free (black) market the price for that commodity has sunk so low. It means that there's a lot of offer available...
Maybe they have a difficult telling time telling them apart since they all act so similarly...
They're not equal in the eyes of the law...
It looks like a chicken, acts like a chicken, talks like a chicken, so it must secretly be a horse...
We should discover it first and use it against them before anyone else can. National security...
>That's precisely what I expect any functioning and remotely competent secret service to do. Secret services are bound to look into anyone that is involved in anything that might represent a liability and a security…
A hired thug who doesn't care who his master is.
Google management gave too much freedom and independence to its techies and now they think they run the company.
The stunts are the art. I am an artist myself. I don't see Banksy as being an anti-capitalist or anti-consumer culture artist. I see that aspect of his performance as a persona, exactly like Mr. Brainwash is, and that…
Art has meaning, and some intended meanings expressed through art are nullified when the art piece is turned into a commodity. Artists rebelling against commodification of their art pieces in the past saw their own…
You raise a good point. People are free to do how they like with their money, but outrageously some spend it frivolously in cheaply-made art for status or tax evasion purposes. Bill Gates late-life philanthropy raises a…
What's your reading of it?
What good was that film if it made us "think", but not act? I believe OP is putting the lessons in that film into action in his life, and those actions are present in the thoughts expressed in his words, and happily not…
Facebook / gov can import all your data from Solid, rendering your options of who to share info with a cruel illusion.
When you ask "why would they?" you can intuit a seemingly good case either way that they would or wouldn't (maybe they would because they're incompetent.) Instead of relying on intuition, a more to-the-point question is…
Just commenting on this thread is enough. The NSA / MI# / [Military Intel of Country X] know me. I know them. I don't do shit. They don't do shit beyond some pranks and exchanging banter. What are people so paranoid…
Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away for the victims. The women whose boyfriends posted private sex pictures as revenge, or the minorities who will be the victims of hate groups organizing on social media, the…
This kind of decentralisation -- taking existing platforms controlled by megacorps and making them P2P... ...feels, to me, like a huge mistake. How would one eliminate hate speech and toxic content from it? Or illegal…
Format it and install Linux.
>The article doesn't explain why it should be saved. >[It's] for historical context.
Maybe Google's failure to not make the world worse is being spun into an argument on how all technology has its benefits and evils, but the social benefits from Google's tech appear to be outweighed by its social…
You don't have to commit a crime to be targeted, spied on, harassed and have your life destroyed by the government. When the government spies on innocent people en masse -- because they say they should have nothing to…
Methinks it's time for an anti-trust investigation on Google like the one on Microsoft during the Internet Explorer heyday. At the same time, I don't trust the US has institutions that haven't been sabotaged by…
Every time I see one of those forms I feel like the hungry, desperate sex workers who "consent" to being degraded and humiliated so that they can feed their families for another day... We say "yes," but the head shakes…
I'd rather if they didn't spy on me in the first place...
What's persistently disturbing is that in a free (black) market the price for that commodity has sunk so low. It means that there's a lot of offer available...
Maybe they have a difficult telling time telling them apart since they all act so similarly...
They're not equal in the eyes of the law...
It looks like a chicken, acts like a chicken, talks like a chicken, so it must secretly be a horse...
We should discover it first and use it against them before anyone else can. National security...
>That's precisely what I expect any functioning and remotely competent secret service to do. Secret services are bound to look into anyone that is involved in anything that might represent a liability and a security…
A hired thug who doesn't care who his master is.
Google management gave too much freedom and independence to its techies and now they think they run the company.
The stunts are the art. I am an artist myself. I don't see Banksy as being an anti-capitalist or anti-consumer culture artist. I see that aspect of his performance as a persona, exactly like Mr. Brainwash is, and that…
Art has meaning, and some intended meanings expressed through art are nullified when the art piece is turned into a commodity. Artists rebelling against commodification of their art pieces in the past saw their own…
You raise a good point. People are free to do how they like with their money, but outrageously some spend it frivolously in cheaply-made art for status or tax evasion purposes. Bill Gates late-life philanthropy raises a…
What's your reading of it?
What good was that film if it made us "think", but not act? I believe OP is putting the lessons in that film into action in his life, and those actions are present in the thoughts expressed in his words, and happily not…
Facebook / gov can import all your data from Solid, rendering your options of who to share info with a cruel illusion.
When you ask "why would they?" you can intuit a seemingly good case either way that they would or wouldn't (maybe they would because they're incompetent.) Instead of relying on intuition, a more to-the-point question is…
Just commenting on this thread is enough. The NSA / MI# / [Military Intel of Country X] know me. I know them. I don't do shit. They don't do shit beyond some pranks and exchanging banter. What are people so paranoid…
Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away for the victims. The women whose boyfriends posted private sex pictures as revenge, or the minorities who will be the victims of hate groups organizing on social media, the…
This kind of decentralisation -- taking existing platforms controlled by megacorps and making them P2P... ...feels, to me, like a huge mistake. How would one eliminate hate speech and toxic content from it? Or illegal…
Format it and install Linux.
>The article doesn't explain why it should be saved. >[It's] for historical context.