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>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears
by laotzu 11y ago
>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.
-Marshall McLuhan
- wyager 11y agoHe was wrong; we're having much more trouble with public (i.e. governmental) manipulation.
- laotzu 11y agoSuch trouble would not be so feasible if it weren't for the centralized nature of commercial ISPs and big tech (Facebook, Google, Apple) in general and their collaboration with the government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
- wyager 11y agoI'd hardly call being forced under threat of imprisonment "collaboration".
- laotzu 11y agoWhether they want to collaborate or not is trivial. What is important is that they possess the information and tools for easy dragnet surveillance in the first place. Moving towards more distributed network tech like Mesh Networks is the only viable solution to dragnet surveillance I know of.