[Reader-list] CarniBore

[Lachlan Brown]

Stop scare mongering geert. The hype over the distribution of 
carnivore, omnivore and draggonet, plus ECHELON (which is simply 
the three in series PLUS conventional means of intelligence
gathering and policing: - ie 'ask a professional colleague 
of the subject under scrutiny' which yields the greatest 
intelligence ;) Col Crush GCHQ in Winchcomb, David Sterling, Siwa 
Oasis 1942), seems destined to stress the need for more technology 
and more European-American technologists to mediate the new 
international, global, media.

Suddenly we are not supposed to be able to discuss
culture, politics, and the law online. Curious that
this sudden end to meaning should happen just when
culture, politics and the law writ globally don't sound so 
homely to EurAm 'net culture' and net culturists.

I mean, some of us have a lot to say that will require
a degree in cultural studies to understand, or a little bit 
of reading, but the specialism is freely available through 
Open learning, Adult Education and also conventional University 
degree routes. I doubt there will ever be a string of code that 
can decode Encoding/Decoding by Stuart Hall. Or 'H' as we like
to call him.

I mean, the hype about CarniBore is rather like suggesting
that it is impossible to discuss anything on a train in 1900
because 'agents' might be listening in, or impossible to
discuss anything on the phone in 1960 because James Bond
might be pretending to be the Phone engineer.

Yes, we have technology. But we also have ideas, policies and the 
law that constitute us as subjects with rights, and more skills than 
keystroke skills and a bit of .php in determining our future(s).



Lachlan



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