JohnJac's Favorite Posts Of The Weeks
Last week JohnJac totally dominated the favorite comments, so we figured we might as well let him do the favorite posts of the week this week.
I really, really, wanted this post to be funny and?optimistic.?However as I read Techdirt, it became clear this week had a theme: governments over-reacting to?technology. ?This point was driven home when Egypt shut their people off from the Internet:
I’ve?snickered in the past at other governments’?attempts to block skype or to block all of YouTube over a single video. ?If you had asked me last week, would a government go so far as to shut all internet access down, I would have told you no way.
While we’re on the subject, check out this post over at Marginal Revolution, talking about how this move is likely to backfire for the?Egyptian government.
Other?governments are not?immune?from over-reaction, but thankfully not to the extent Egypt has gone.
- Government Putting Quite A Lot Of Effort Into Tracking Down ‘Anonymous’
- Nanny State: More Politicians Against Pedestrians Listening To Headphones Or Texting
- Spanish Gov’t Simply Reinstates US-Driven Copyright Bill, Despite It Being Voted Down
- US Government Pushing Pro And Anti-Privacy Internet Rules At The Same Time
- How Facebook Dealt With The Tunisian Government Trying To Steal Every User's Passwords
- Massachussetts Legislature Bans Twitter From Office Computers
- Artist Facing 15 Years In Jail For The Crime Of Videotaping His Own Arrest
I love to hear some comments below on how ‘we the people’ can help our governments understand and not fear technology. ?Half my?professional career was spent working for a state government in a?technical roll, and I’m still at a loss as to how this can change.
But all hope isn’t lost:
On the lighter side, there is hope that people are using all the tools?available to them to create something new. ?The standout story here is?Pomplamoose. ?I just love what they are doing.
My?Favorite?Comment of the week goes to John B. ?On Mike’s story about Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin,?John B. said this: ?”This post isn’t about tech, but it’s about dirt, so there’s that.”
Many thanks to Mike and the Techdirt?Community for letting me share my thoughts.
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I almost tried to shame my facebook friends and family about their "wrong articles" as I realized that FiveThirtyEight and Politico tabs I had open had been wrong as well.
It's all been clickbait and the hook was in my mouth too.
Oh Onion, You got me again.
From Thomson Reuters site link in this article
Let me interrupt your Free Music Stream
"Let me interrupt our prime-time streaming of 19 performances of free music stream to everyone for free around so I can tell you that people paying for music aren't paying enough"
You say you want a Revolution?
So in the 90's we blocked the export of strong crypto to keep us safe, now the plan in the 2010's is to block the import of strong crypto?
We're 180º from where we started, but not in the direction we thought.
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Insightful, Thanks johnjac!
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Tim,
You will be missed.
Yours Cynically,
Reality
What's good for the goose:
Let's try an empathy exercise with the NSA director:
Would he be comfortable the NSA using an encryption method that allowed Congress to hold keys they promise will only be use legally?
If not, why not?
Value of tweets
Obviously Sony knows the value of tweets, I'm sure Mr. Broeksmit would be willing to sell his tweet stream for $2 Million.
I sure hope the court has the money to pay the fees for all the lyrics they are using.
Isn't this also about getting more inbound links from social media, to drive more traffic.
While I agree with everything Karl says here, I think they want more traffic from facebook and twitter.
The problem with peeping-toms
The problem with peeping-toms is that we keep finding out they exist. If we can just devise a program to help peeping-toms better cover their tracks no one has to know they're being stalked, and everyone will be okay.
No really
No really THIS POST isn't about #GamerGate
At this point I have to think the directive was "Keep doing stuff to make this story as confusing as possible so the public won't be able to follow it"
It doesn't make sense until you realize that this is the CIA security question for master password resets:
What was the price of your first computer?
I read 98% of the stories. I miss a few percentage points due to 1) every once in a while not having enough time or 2) Prada Law stories. I'm 100% sure the Prada Law stuff is super interesting but because of #1, I missed out on parts and had a hard time catching up on the confusing story.
I share stories when they explain viewpoints well. Vox has popularized "explainer journalism" but TechDirt has been doing it for years. I share something when I can say "Here is an example of why I think there are problems with copyright, or overvaluing ideas, or why all content is advertising, and on and on.
If GI Joe taught us anything, it is "Knowing is half the Battle"
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