Bowing to criticism, Comcast promised to stop recording the Web browsing activities of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers, according to The New York Times. [free registration required]
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What genius thought people would be OK with this? It's insane...
This is not the Land of The Free, if this sort of spying into peoples lives is accepted. The government, if it were really interested in peoples freedom, would have stopped these guys as soon as they started. It was only due to the public outcries that they stopped at all.
The gov't, my naive friend, LOVES this sort of thing... Enterprise (read: Big Biz as Big Bro) does the dirty work for gov't! Large companies, such as Comcast, compile databases full of info on individuals and when the need arises, gov't (under the often dubious rubric of "law enforcement") swoops in and, BINGO, has reams of info they can use nefariously or otherwise.
Think about it. Then think again. No, wait, you are not finished thinking...
And remember what Dr. Leary said, governments are all Mafias, some are worse than others, but they are all Mafias.
Yes, indeed... It is a Brave New World... Corporate totalitarianism! "I owe my soul to the company store!"
Le plus ça change, le plus c'est le meme chose.
(That whooshing sound you hear is this post going over your head.)
"(That whooshing sound you hear is this post going over your head.)"
God, I wish I was as clever as you!
Oh yes intelligent one. Teach us your ways. Your depth of knowledge is astounding, and cannot be compared to our mere mortal brains.
Now if we could just get those companies to stop selling our info...
The more it changes, the more it is the same thing? So Apple really does still have unquestioned market dominance? And would you claim than 1984 really was like 1984?
Améliorez pour rester silencieux et pour être pensé un imbécile, qu'ouvrir votre bouche et retirer toutes doutent . (or something like that)
Voulez-vous couche avec moi, ce soir?
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pffft!
they still suck.