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>By taking down Instagram now we'll send a clear message that taking liberties with our privacy and personal identity and likeness is /not acceptable/. I call
by pretoriusB 14y ago
>By taking down Instagram now we'll send a clear message that taking liberties with our privacy and personal identity and likeness is /not acceptable/.
I call BS. Having already accepted the Patriot Act, mass domestic surveillance, phone taps without a warrant, most of our data in Google/Facebook/MS/Apple/Dropbox/Amazon clouds, etc, we're now supposed "send a clear message that taking liberties with our privacy and personal identity and likeness is /not acceptable/."???
It's the opposite: few things have been MORE acceptable by american society than companies and governments taking liberties with our privacy and personal identity.
Sending a message to Instagram? It's like being inside a burning house and we respond by stomping on our cigarette.
- jnrjnn 14y agopretoriusB: It sounds that you are a victim of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
- pretoriusB 14y agoNo -- but you might be responding to something I have NOT said. I'm not against action. I'm for action where it _matters_. Abandoning all those really relevant privacy fronts and then "sending a message" to ...Instagram, is not it. That's what I tried to convey with my "stomping the cigarette" analogy. Better try to put down the house fire first...
- eternalban 14y agoYou make a seriously excellent point!