[Reader-list] The Secret Agent

[Lachlan Brown]

This 'tactical' thinking surrenders the 'strategic' terrain 
to enemies, real or imagined. It leads to paranoia. It leads 
to disempowerment.

menso wrote:
>You are really not understanding this at all, are you? 

>It is not a question of 'an agent that might be listening in', 
there is one, always listening and storing all that he hears.

Would you like to tell us about this 'agent' Menso? Would you
like to tell us about where all keystrokes, all communication,
all digital culture has its repository? Would you like to
outline a technical programme to counter this accumulation
of information on all our lives? More to the point, would you
like to tell us about the kind of society it might be where
such accumulation of digital culture might be employed to the 
detriment of individual and collective rights? 

As I say, a more successful strategy (one more fully worked out 
in a range of civil rights issues during the past several decades 
at least) is to counter through clearly articulated argument for rights, for policies that protect rights, and for legislation that upholds rights vis a vis State as well as private sector. I think 
this is the more productive way to go.

Paranoia leads to disempowerment. 


Brown, Lachlan Brown

Lachlan Brown
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