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I think this is actually by design. My theory is they built a panopticon intended to move humanity towards being more cooperative and docile. A feature of this

I think this is actually by design. My theory is they built a panopticon intended to move humanity towards being more cooperative and docile. A feature of this is that people become self policing much like in the USSR. You yourself just admitted to what is equivalent to thought policing.

mindfulhack 7y ago
Instead of downvoting, I'll reply with my own logic: 1. Science and clear thinking demonstrates more often than not that the world is chaotic and random. 2. Conspiracy thought like yours can be a psychological attempt to quell one's unease from seeing such chaos by insisting that everything is controlled, so that you gain an emotional feeling of control and security once more. Like 9/11, I think what you speak of (people's increasing self censorship as a result of draconian dragnet surveillance) is more pure accident - not design - but it's then taken advantage of by opportunists (where in the case of 9/11, it was warmongers and American oil barons).
- solotronics 7y ago
  https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo... Both Facebook and Google were nurtured by In-Q-Tel and Highlands Forum members. I don't think this is wrong or bad. Just like Huawei and ZTE are highly correlated with the Chinese government, our biggest tech companies are interwoven with our national defense organizations.
nine_k 7y ago
Why — store everything you don't want to ever be public (like your private documents allowing for ID theft, medical records, business plans, nudes of yourself, etc) encrypted, and be the only one to know the key. Those are not many. Use SpiderOak, or Tarsnap, or any backup program that does this. Anything you share with others, online or not, has a fair chance to become more widely known; just keep it in mind. This has always been si, afaict.
- geofft 7y ago
  What's the point of having identity documents, medical records, business plans, or nudes of yourself that you don't share with anyone?
  - tialaramex 7y ago
    Identity documents should be public information, if they lack an irrefutable connection to you (e.g. photo ID unless you've got an identical twin) they're bad identity documents. But there may be accompanying information you should keep private, for example it's not unheard of for passport authorities to provide an additional document that helps them if your passport is lost or damaged, no need to let anybody else have that. Medical records it certainly can make sense for you to keep documents that medics don't need right now but might be relevant later. If you've got them, somebody else can't lose them. Business plans ought to be obvious. You won't get far telling everybody what your plans are, keep them to yourself. And nudes while it seems lots of people do send them to somebody else - perhaps much better looking people than me - if you've got nude images of yourself for some other reason then it's better to keep them private than risk some outfit accidentally losing them. For example I had images of my penis from when I had surgery done on it to fix a problem, I was tracking the healing process because I was interested in how the stitches behave. No reason to put those photos in the Clown or whatever where they're one fat finger away from being available to anybody curious.

mindfulhack 7y ago

Instead of downvoting, I'll reply with my own logic: 1. Science and clear thinking demonstrates more often than not that the world is chaotic and random. 2. Conspiracy thought like yours can be a psychological attempt to quell one's unease from seeing such chaos by insisting that everything is controlled, so that you gain an emotional feeling of control and security once more. Like 9/11, I think what you speak of (people's increasing self censorship as a result of draconian dragnet surveillance) is more pure accident - not design - but it's then taken advantage of by opportunists (where in the case of 9/11, it was warmongers and American oil barons).

solotronics 7y ago
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo... Both Facebook and Google were nurtured by In-Q-Tel and Highlands Forum members. I don't think this is wrong or bad. Just like Huawei and ZTE are highly correlated with the Chinese government, our biggest tech companies are interwoven with our national defense organizations.

nine_k 7y ago

Why — store everything you don't want to ever be public (like your private documents allowing for ID theft, medical records, business plans, nudes of yourself, etc) encrypted, and be the only one to know the key. Those are not many. Use SpiderOak, or Tarsnap, or any backup program that does this. Anything you share with others, online or not, has a fair chance to become more widely known; just keep it in mind. This has always been si, afaict.

geofft 7y ago
What's the point of having identity documents, medical records, business plans, or nudes of yourself that you don't share with anyone?
- tialaramex 7y ago
  Identity documents should be public information, if they lack an irrefutable connection to you (e.g. photo ID unless you've got an identical twin) they're bad identity documents. But there may be accompanying information you should keep private, for example it's not unheard of for passport authorities to provide an additional document that helps them if your passport is lost or damaged, no need to let anybody else have that. Medical records it certainly can make sense for you to keep documents that medics don't need right now but might be relevant later. If you've got them, somebody else can't lose them. Business plans ought to be obvious. You won't get far telling everybody what your plans are, keep them to yourself. And nudes while it seems lots of people do send them to somebody else - perhaps much better looking people than me - if you've got nude images of yourself for some other reason then it's better to keep them private than risk some outfit accidentally losing them. For example I had images of my penis from when I had surgery done on it to fix a problem, I was tracking the healing process because I was interested in how the stitches behave. No reason to put those photos in the Clown or whatever where they're one fat finger away from being available to anybody curious.