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email is a tool. you can use it for what it works for. it doesn't have to be used for all communication. assume a world where all your emails are archived in
by ezl 13y ago
email is a tool. you can use it for what it works for.
it doesn't have to be used for all communication.
assume a world where all your emails are archived in publicly accessible databases. you've lost privacy, but could it still be a useful tool?
send birthday emails. send your friends funny cat videos.
you don't have to use email for everything you used it for before -- you can just use it in different ways. i would still like to be able to near-instantly communicate with relatives across the world.
i know bacon clogs my arteries and making bacon has a terrible environmental footprint relative to eating only grains, but i love it.
- samstave 13y agoOK cool - bdays and cats.... now where do I do anything serious where I need/desire privacy?
- pearjuice 13y agoYou speak to people in real life.
- tomrod 13y agoSneakernet.
- ezl 13y agoyou're missing the point: maybe email is not good for privacy. the article is about not using email. no tool is perfect. you know what would be great? if hammers cured cancer. they don't though, so we just use them to hammer nails into wood. speaking to people in public places is also a way to communicate, though equally bad for privacy. if there's nothing you can do to change the privacy attribute of "speaking to people in public places", does that mean you should never do it again? or: use codes that only you and the other person know, hold hands and tap morse code into each others palms, find secure rooms. people get upset when one tool doesn't do all the things they want, but its a weirdly tech centric thing. "your startup doesn't do X so i'll criticize it". you can play the "need more features" game ad infinitum -- but nobody criticizes cast cups for their failure to keep drinks cold indefinitely or couches for failing to give them back massages. Because a feature makes a tool better doesn't make it a requirement for its usage.
- samstave 13y ago>or: use codes that only you and the other person know, hold hands and tap morse code into each others palms, find secure rooms. What? What am I some sort of criminal on the run? You're missing the point!!! -- This whole damn thing is completely unacceptable. I don't give a shit about "legal" the government is an institution made by men, and these actions and programs are wrong. The term "legal" holds absolutely zero meaning to me any longer.
- saraid216 13y agoTHE WORLD ISN'T EXACTLY THE WAY I WANT IT AND I'M GOING TO KICK AND SCREAM AS A RESULT RATHER THAN DOING ANYTHING MATURE TO ADDRESS IT.
- samstave 13y agoWhat is more mature: calling out bullshit as it is or acquiescence to something that is completely wrong due to lack of testicular fortitude? I am in no way "kicking and screaming" in an immature manner, I am instead saying "fuck you" to a system with which I will acknowledge no further authority over me. I am no longer interested in the opinions or doctrines of the agents of all systems in this world which are not singularly for the advancement of Humanity as a singular species. I am not american, Jewish, atheist, ethnic, sexually-preferential or any other wedge label. I am a conscious being who is, from this point forward, only accepting of an advancement of the Human Race without any profit motive (money, ego, power, resource) outside of that which benefits the entire planet.